Marie Samuelsson

Marie Samuelsson (born 15 February 1956) is a Swedish composer.

Biography

Marie Samuelsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied piano and improvisation at Birkagården College from 1979–81, musicology at the University of Stockholm from 1982–83 and composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1987-95 with Sven-David Sandström, Daniel Börtz and Pär Lindgren. She later continued her studies with George Benjamin.^[1] She was elected to The Royal Swedish Academy of Music 2005. Samuelsson was the featured composer of a four-day festival in Stockholm in May 2007 for which her orchestra piece Singla was commissioned and premièred by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2008 she was awarded STIMs Atterberg Prize.^[2]

Works

Selected works include:

• Andra platser (Other places), for alto voice, cello, and percussion, 1989
• Katt: Nio liv (Cat: Nine lives), for woodwind quintet, 1989
• Från Indien till Mars (From India to Mars), dance music for string quartet with guitar improvisation, 1990–91
• Den natten (That night), for choir, 1991
• Signal for saxophone quartet, 1991
• Lufttrumma I (Air shaft I), for alto saxophone, piano, and percussion, 1993
• Troll for youth orchestra, 1993
• Krom (Chrome), for brass quintet, 1994
• Lufttrumma II (Air shaft II), for flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, and double bass, 1994
• Magica de Hex (Magica de Spell), for orchestra, 1994
• Pingvinkvartett (Penguin quartet), for flute, violin, cello, and piano, 1996
• Sirén, for saxophone quartet, 1996
• I vargens öga (In the eye of the wolf), for solo saxophone and tape, 1997
• Rotationer (Rotations), for string orchestra, 1997 (revised, 2003)
• Lufttrumma III (Air shaft III), for orchestra, 1999
• Flow for chamber orchestra, 2000
• I Am-Are You?, for French horn and tape, 2001
• Ö (Island), for solo violin, 2002
• Bastet the sun goddess, concerto for violin and orchestra, 2004
• Paths of sorrow, for chamber orchestra, 2005
• Skuggspel (Shadow play), for oboe and percussion, 2005
• Eleven hundred and twelve degrees, for cello and tape, 2006
• Fear and Hope, for orchestra, 2006
• Singla, for orchestra, 2007
• Komposition-Improvisation (Composition-Improvisation), for 2 saxophones, 2007
• Sjörök under Stockholms broar (Sea smoke under Stockholms bridges), for string quartet, 2008
• The Horn in the wind, concerto for horn and orchestra, 2009
• Airborne Lines and Rumbles, for orchestra, 2009
• Fanfar till livet, for brass section, 2010
• Alive, for violin, 2010

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Air Drum (2003) Phono Suecia
• Rydberg, Enström, Samuelsson, Parmerud, Lindwall, and Feiler, (includes Signal) (1997) Caprice^[3]

References

1. ^ "Marie Samuelsson". http://web.comhem.se/marie.samuelsson. Retrieved 5 November 2010. 
2. ^ White, John David; Christensen, Jean (2002). New music of the Nordic countries. 
3. ^ "Marie Samuelsson". http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608004044/Marie-Samuelsson.html. Retrieved 5 November 2010. 

External links

• Official website

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Name	Samuelsson, Marie
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Short description	Composer
Date of birth	15 February 1956
Place of birth	Stockholm, Sweden
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