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Simon Steen-Andersen (b. 1976, Denmark) is a Berlin-based composer and stage director working with a transdisciplinary approach to musical performance and theatre, resulting in works situated between the categories of music, performance, theatre, choreography and film.

Steen-Andersen received numerous awards, including the Reumert Award (2024), the Carl Prize (2024, 2020, 2015), the SWR Orchestra Prize (2019, 2014), the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize and the Siemens Composer’s‘ Prize (2017), the Nordic Council Music Prize (2014), the Carl Nielsen Honorary Award and the Kunstpreis from Berlin Academy of the Arts (2013), the 1st Prize of International Rostrum of Composers (2010) and the Kranichsteiner Music Award (2008) as well as the DAAD Berlin Artist Residency (2010).
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He studied composition with Rasmussen, Spahlinger, Valverde and Sorensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires and Copenhagen 1998-2006. Steen-Andersen has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2016 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2018.

Since 2018, he has taught composition and music theatre at the University of the Arts Bern (HKB), Switzerland, and serves as an associate professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark.