COMPOSERS IN RESIDENCE
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Leilei Tian
Leilei Tian: was born in 1971 in Jiangsu Province, China. She began to study piano at the age of six.
From 1988 to 1995, she studied in the Department of Composition in Central Conservatory of Music in
Beijing with Zhenmin Xu and got her Bachelor' s and Master' s Degrees of Arts.In 1997, she went to Sweden
to study with Ole Lützow-Holm in the Conservatory of Music in Göteborg and got her Diploma in 2001.
From 2002 to 2003 she attended the one-year course for composition and electro-acoustic music at
Ircam in Paris. Since1999, she has been living in France.
Leilei Tian's music has been widely performed in Europe, Asia and America by professional
ensembles; among others: Zürich Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra, Swedish National Symphony
Orchestra, Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, National Orchestra of Radio and Television
of Serbia, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble
Intercontemporain of Paris, Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam, Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne of Montreal,
Ensemble Earplay of San Francisco, KammarensembleN of Stockholm, etc. She has been receiving
commissions from the French Ministry of Culture, Royaumont Foundation, Swedish
Concert Institute and different ensembles.
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She is also the winner of competitions such as International Gaudeamus Competition for Young
Composers in Amsterdam 1999 (Honorable Mention); 10th Besancon International Composition Competition
for orchestra in France 2000 (1th prize); IV International Contemporary Music Contest "Citta' di Udine" in
Italy 2002 (1st prize), International Composition Competition of GRAME in Lyon 2002(1st prize) and ISCM Cash
Young Composer’s Award 2004.
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Paulina Sundin
Paulina Sundin was born in 1970 in Kristianstad, southern Sweden, moving at an
early age to Stockholm. After graduating from Stockholm’s Music Gymnasium, she read
amongst other subjects musicology, composition, history of ideas and music psychology at
Uppsala University. Through attendance at a summer course in composition in 1990 Paulina came
in contact with electro-acoustic music for the first time and became fascinated with the expressive
possibilities of that particular genre. Later followed studies at EMS (the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm)
and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (1993-1999). Paulina Sundin was selected as the Rotary Foundations
goodwill ambassador to England in 1999, where she began a doctorate in electro-acoustic composition at the
University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Paulina Sundins music has been played all over the world, both in concerts and radio broadcasts. Already
during her student days were her pieces premiered in amongst others the ISCM World Music Days in South
Korea 1997, the Australasian Computer Music Conference in New Zealand 1999, and the Rien á Voir in Canada 1999.
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Paulina Sundin has received commissions from Concerts Sweden (Rikskonserter) for a
number of occasions including the opening of their new premises in Stockholm 1997, and the
Stockholm Electronic Music Festival 1993 and 1995. More recently, Paulina has worked on commissions
from Musik i Väst, the Swedish national radio and the Textile University in Borås, southern Sweden. Paulina
has also worked on individual projects with filmmakers, dance choreographers and has had projects financed
by Konstnärsnämnden (the Arts Grants Committee in Sweden).
Read more about Paulina Sundin at www.paulinasundin.com
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Anders Hultqvist.
was born in Stockholm in 1955 and grew up in Kiruna in the far north. In 1978, he
began studying music at the Göteborg College of Music, specialising in the
flute, and went on to study composition under Sven-Eric Johansson. From 1985
and 1989, he attended composition classes at the Göteborg College of Music led
by Mikael Edlund, Bo Holten, Lennart Hall and Lars Johan Werle.
His productions have included the orchestral work 'Time and the Bell' and a
double concert, 'Incantatio' (comp. prog. by Magnus Eldénius) for violin, cello
and orchestra, written for the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
He has also written 'The Winter Garden' for Musica Vitae, and composed 'The Queen
Went into the Parlour Eating Bread and Honey' at the initiative of the Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra.
His flute concerto, 'When Roses Break' (comp. prog. M. Eldénius), was commissioned
by Lars Benstorp, and the soloist at the first performance was Manuela Wiesler.
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Photo: Fredric Bergström
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'Alphabeth/Composition No.1' for solo percussion.(written for Jonny Axelsson),
'Apricot Trees Exist/Composition No.2' for two violins (written for the Duo Gelland),
'Among Travelling Angels/ Composition No.3' for chamber ensemble,
'Stone After S tone/Composition No.5' for orchestra and tape
(written for ICMC 2002 and the GSO), and 'Rain and After/Composition No.6'
(written for Hot Tre) are five of six works in a collection of compositions
based to some extent on the poetry of Inger Christensen, in terms of both content and structure.
'Darkness/Composition No. 4' is in preparation and is being written for Ensemble Ars Nova as part of the CoMA project.
'Solvind' is a computer music piece (in collab. with M. Eldénius and F-G. Evelson) based on
recorded satellite data from the aurora borealis and solar wind phenomena, while 'Herbst/RM
Rilke' puts to music one of Rilke's last poems and was written for the twelve singers in the Rilke Ensemble.
Anders Hultqvist has also composed music for stage and screen, and
produced and taken part in a number of musical evening productions,
including a 'millennium show' with Gunilla Gårdfeldt (director) at the
Gothenburg Opera House (GöteborgsOperan) on New Year's Eve, 1999.
Besides his own artistic activities, he also teaches at the Göteborg College of Music,
where he directs the composition programme, and at the Centre for New Music (CNM),
launched in Göteborg in 1997. In addition, he is project manager of the multi-genre
Göteborg Art Sounds (GAS) festival.
Some compositions by Anders Hultqvist on CD:
* Incantatio (+ Time and the Bell + When Roses Break)
(Göteborgs Symfoniker) MM16 (distr. Border Music)
* The Winter Garden - (Musica Vitae) CAP 21519
* Absentia Animi - (Rilke Ens.) Prophone PCD 005
* Solvind - (Computer) Atalante Records vol.2
* Alphabeth /Composition No.1 - PSCD 126
* Apricot Trees Exist/Composition No.2 - (Duo Gelland), issued in 2003 by nosag CD 075
* Rain and After/Composition No.6 - (HOT 3) issued in 2003 by Phono Suecia
* The Queen Went into the Parlour Eating Bread and Honey
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Staffan Storm.
Staffan Storm was born in Karlskrona in 1964. 1983-86 he studied musicology and history at
Lund University. 1986-92 he studied composition under Rolf Martinsson and Hans Gefors at the Malmö
College of Music. He has also
attended a number of international courses at such centres as the Centre Acathes in
Avignon, led by Elliott Carter, Harrison Birtwhistle, Gérard Grisey and others, and
the Internationalen Feriekursen für Neue Musik, Darmstadt. Storm's music has been
performed at the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterstad - 'Die blaue Grotte' was selected
for the 1994 festival - and in Darmstadt, where 'Wenn das nur spiel ist', a trio for
alto saxophone, guitar and marimba, was given its first performance.
Today, Staffan Storm divides his time between composing and teaching. Since 1993, he
has been working as a teacher at the Malmö College of Music. He was elected to the FST
in 1994. Among his more recent works are 'Parabeln von Gestern' for soloists, mixed
chorus and chamber ensemble (a work written for conductor Fredrik Malmberg), 'Der Sprung
über den Schatten' for chamber ensemble (written for Ensemble Ars Nova) and 'Cuatro sueños
espagnoles' for organ (written for the inauguration of the new Spanish organ in Caroli
Church, Malmö). Other recently completed works include 'Serenata notturna', for solo
trombone and chamber ensemble, and 'Lacrymosa' for soprano, choir and string orchestra.
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A musician with whom Staffan Storm has often worked is guitarist Stefan Östersjö.
Since the early 1990s, this partnership has resulted in a number of solo and
chamber music works, most recently in a piece for alto guitar, 'L'horizon chimérique'.
Another fruitful partnership in recent years has been Storm's collaboration with
cellist Hege Waldeland and guitarist Gunnar Spjuth, which resulted most recently,
in the spring of 2003, in the 'Sonnenuhr' duo. In 2001, the Nytorp Musik record
company commissioned a song, 'Våren på Djurgården', with lyrics by August Strindberg,
for soprano Malena Ernman and pianist Francisca Skoogh, to be included on a new record
that was eventually released in the spring of 2003 to considerable acclaim. Staffan
Storm has also collaborated closely with Francisca Skoogh on a number of works.
Selection of works:
- De Profundis, for orchestra, 1988
- Ein Augenblick, string quartet, 1988/92
- Förvittrad sfinx, for four soloists and mixed chorus (E. Diktonius), 1990
- Die blaue Grotte, for trumpet, horn, trombone, piano and percussion, 1991
- Der Aufbruch, for alto and chamber orchestra. (F. Kafka), 1992
- La Casa di Maschere, for guitar and tape, 1992
- Das Gift, for piano, 1993
- Wenn das nur Spiel ist, for alto saxophone, guitar and marimba, 1994
- .....bland svarta träd, långt före dagningen..., for soprano, oboe, cello and marimba
- TV Sets Glowing Blue In the Dusk, scenes for chamber ensemble, 1995-96
- Offenbarung und Untergang, for soprano and chamber ensemble (Georg Trakl), 1996
- Abschattung, sextett for flute, clarinet, guitar, marimba, violin and cello,1997
- Whispers of Heavenly Death, after a poem by Walt Whitman, for Basse de traversière and alto/bass
recorder (flûte á bec alto/basse), 1998
- Der Sprung über den Schatten, for chamber ensemble (10 instruments), 1998
- Tides and Breaking Waves, for violin and piano, 1999
- Widerschein, trio for clarinet, 10-stringed guitar and cello, 2000
- Eternal Summer, two sonnets for alto, tuba and percussion (W. Shakespeare), 2000
- Parabeln von Gestern, for soloists, mixed chorus and chamber ensemble (texts by W. Shakespeare,
G. Trakl, R.M. Rilke, W.Whitman, R.Musil, W. Rathenau), 2000
- Serenad i sommarnatten, for cello and guitar, 2001
- Våren på Djurgården, solomadrigal for mezzosoprano and piano(August Strindberg), 2001
- Cuatro sueños españoles, for organ, 2002
- L´horizon chimérique, for alto-guitar, 2002
- Sonnenhur, for cello and guitar, 2003
- Tre canti dal giardino in rovina, for flute, marimba and organ, 2003
Recordings:
La Casa di Maschere - Stefan Östersjö, guitar /CD:dB Productions 17
Våren på Djurgården - Malena Ernman, mezzo soprano and Francisca Skoogh, piano
/CD:Nytorp Musik 6
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