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Britta Byström (born 14 March 1977) is a Swedish classical composer who specializes in orchestral music but has also composed vocal music and opera. In 2015, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra honoured her as the winner of the Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers.[1][2]

Britta Byström
Born(1977-03-14)14 March 1977
Sundsvall, Sweden
OccupationMusical composer, trumpeter,
Years active1993-
WebsiteOfficial website

Biography


Born in Sundsvall, Sweden, Britta Byström was not raised in a musical family but became interested in music at the age of 10 when she began to play the trumpet. After writing tunes for the trumpet, she started to compose for an orchestra made up of her teenage friends. By the time she was 16, she had won a competition with the Umeå Symphony Orchestra.[1]

She was admitted to study composition at the Royal Swedish College of Music in 1995, under Pär Lindgren and Bent Sørensen, graduating in 2001.[2] She has since composed more than 100 works, some of which have been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich orchestra and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Some of her compositions have been written directly for soloists such as Radovan Vlatkovic, Malin Broman, Rick Stotijn and Janine Jansen.

Several of Byström's works have attracted particular attention. Der Vogel der Nacht (The Bird of the Night) was inspired by Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony. It was first performed by the Swedish Radio Orchestra in 2010.[3][2] The tone poem Picnic at Hanging Rock, described by Byström as "music with disappearance",[2] received the Christ Johnson prize in 2012, while A Walk After Dark, a viola concerto, earned the Da-capo award at the 2014 Brandenburger Biennale.[4] In 2016, she composed Many, Yet One for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It was given its world premiere in January 2018.[5] Parallel Universes, an orchestral work inspired by the cosmologist Max Tegmark's theories, was commissioned by BBC to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Royal Albert Hall 2021 and was first performed by BBC Philharmonic, conductor John Storgårds at the BBC Proms 2021.

Britta Byström's music is since 2010 published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen. Since 2016, she is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.


List of compositions


[6]


References


  1. "Britta Byström". STIM. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  2. "Britta Byström named 8th annual winner of Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers". Detroit Symphony Orchestra. 30 July 2015. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  3. "Programme Note: Britta Byström Der Vogel der Nacht (2010)". Music Sales Classical. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  4. "News – Britta Byström Wins Prize in Germany". Music Sales Classical. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  5. "2017.18 Brochure". Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  6. "Compositions in chronological order". Britta Byström. Retrieved 8 November 2018.


Official website (in Swedish)


На других языках


- [en] Britta Byström

[ru] Бюстрём, Бритта

Бритта Бюстрём (швед. Britta Byström; род. 14 марта 1977 года, Сундсвалль) — современный шведский композитор. Специализируется на оркестровой музыке, одновременно автор  вокальных сочинений и опер. В 2015 году Детройтский симфонический оркестр наградил Бритту Бюстрём наградой Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award — наградой для женщин-композиторов[3][4].



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