Education
2014 – 2016 Kungl. Musikhögskolan / Royal College of Music (Stockholm)
Västerländsk konstmusik / Composition Western Art Music, master
2011 – 2014 Kungl. Musikhögskolan / Royal College of Music (Stockholm)
Västerländsk konstmusik / Composition Western Art Music, bachelor
2009 – 2011 Gotlands tonsättarskola / The Gotland School of Music Composition (Visby, Sweden) Kompositionslinje / Composition, 2 years
Work
2022 — Tonis online / Folkuniversitetet / Gotlands tonsättarskola
Teacher / leader. Courses in music composition for beginners.
2020— Taktonika Musiktjänster
Cooperative of composers and arrangers, based in Malmö.
Engraving, printing, arranging, composing.
2014 — Freelance, composer and guitarist
Between 2016-2024 I've also been working as a music, ensemble and guitar teacher on different schools (for children ages 6-16) in Sweden:
Högastensskolan, Helsingborg (2019-20)
Husensjöskolan, Helsingborg (2018-19)
Da vinciskolan, Saltsjöbaden (2016-17)
Saltsjöbadens musikskola, Nacka (2016-17)
Representations
2017 – 2019 Samtida Musik / Contemporary Music
Board member, producer, marketing/PR
One of the oldest associations for contemporary music in Sweden.
2016 – 2017 Uruppförandeklubben,
board member, producer and marketing/PR
2016 — Selected member of The Swedish Society of Composers
/ Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare (FST)
Schoolarships / Awards / residencies
2025 Konstnärsnämnden / Swedish Arts Grants Committe, 1-årigt arbetsstipendium / One Year Working Grant
2025 Helge Ax:son Johnson, "Kusliga historier" composition grant
2025 Artist in residence, VICC, Visby Studio Beta
2024 STIM-stipendiet, STIM forward fund
2024 Föreningen svenska tonsättares stipendium
2024 Artist in residence, Berlin (FST)
2023 Artist in residence, VICC, Visby
2022 Föreningen svenska tonsättares stipendium
2022 Artist in residence, Berlin (FST)
2016 Artist in residence, VICC, Visby
2016 The Royal Academy of Music, local scholarship
2015 The City of Helsingborg Culture Scholarship
2013 Anders Sandrews Foundation
Festivals
2019 "2 days and 2 nights of New Music" in Odessa, Ukraine
Festival for new music at the concert house in central Odessa.
2018 Svensk musikvår, Stockholm. Festival for new music.
2015 Nordic Music days, Valerie's voice (Ensemble Krock, Christofer Elgh).
Opera performance at Kongernes lapidarium, Copenhagen
2015 Uppsala gitarrfestival / Uppsala international guitar festival
"In C" with Terry Riley, Gyan Riley, Gothenburg Combo, Ensemble Krock
and 40 guitarists from all around Sweden.
2015 Sound of Stockholm. Valerie's voice (Ensemble Krock, Christofer Elgh).
Opera performance at Kulturhuset.
2013 Ung nordisk musik / Young nordic music
Festival of new music and young composers, Oslo, Norway.
Opera, film & theater
2024 Touch, dir: Baltasar Kormákur. Movie. Music by Högni Egilsson. Orchestration Petter Ekman, Score preparation and transcriptions: Jesper Nielsen.
2022 En Ljudande resa genom Sverige, music theater
A sound & music walk and performance in collaboration with composer Rosanna Gunnarson and Fredriksdals museer och trädgårdar, Helsingborg, Sweden. Alto saxophone (Linn Persson), electric bass (Rickard Jokela), electronics and story teller. Dramaturg: Hanna Nygren.
2015 That Disgusting Thing Called Intimacy
Choreography by Tuva Hildebrand & Sally O'Neill, Arnhem, Netherlands.
2014 Ett grymt och ohyggligt skämt (A Cruel and Unpleasant Joke)
chamber opera with libretto by Dimen Abdulla. Director: Mårten Forslund
2013 In itself
Short film with dance / choreography by Tuva Hildebrand
Bushwick open studio & Center for Performance and Research, New York
During 2025-26 I'm working on new music for guitar, which will become a debut EP released on streaming services. I'm also working on new music for saxophone solo and electronics together with Linn Persson Kornhammar, which will be part of the performance and story telling event "Kusliga historier" in collaboration with Fredriksdals museer & trädgårdar, Helsingborg. Together with artist and composer Ann Rosén, I'm also working on new music based on her graphic scores under the title "Rethinking". It will be performed at Schhh... vardagsrummet (Östra Hoby) as well at Ystads museum during summer/autumn 2025.
Alongside commissions of original music, I'm currently working with engraving and arranging. Not least I've been working together with my colleague Petter Ekman with orchestrations, pre-scoring and transcriptions for the soundtrack of the upcoming icelandic movie "Touch" which will have cinematic premiere this year. I've also been working with composers such as Sara Parkman, Shida Shahabi, Bergrun Snæbjörnsdottir and Karin Rehnqvist.
I'm writing original music for guitar that I perform on my own, together with commissions (outside of my education) that include work for Stockholm saxophone Quartet, Ann Rosén, Linn Persson Kornhammar & Rickard Jokela, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble KROCK, Irina Serotyuk & Magnus Holmander, Irina Serotyuk & Mara Peiseniece, STIM/SKAP, Emelie Sjöström, Anna & Eva Lindal, My Eklund among others.
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