Marie Samuelsson
Marie Samuelsson 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 and 2001 she complemented her studies with Stage d’été for professional composers at Ircam in Paris.
Samuelsson is a member of the Royal Swedish Music Academy since 2005. In December 2012 she was elected to vice preses in the presidium of the Royal Swedish Music Academy. 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 2011 she was awarded The Composer Prize in the Memory of Bo Wallner.Works
Selected works include:
- Andra platser, for alto voice, cello, and percussion, 1989
- Katt: Nio liv, for woodwind quintet, 1989
- Från Indien till Mars, dance music for string quartet with guitar improvisation, 1990–91
- Den natten, for choir, 1991
- Signal for saxophone quartet, 1991
- Lufttrumma I, for alto saxophone, piano, and percussion, 1993
- Troll for youth orchestra, 1993
- Krom, for brass quintet, 1994
- Lufttrumma II, for flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, and double bass, 1994
- Magica de Hex, for orchestra, 1994
- Pingvinkvartett, for flute, violin, cello, and piano, 1996
- Sirén, for saxophone quartet, 1996
- I vargens öga, for solo saxophone and tape, 1997
- Rotationer, for string orchestra, 1997
- Lufttrumma III, for orchestra, 1999
- Flow for chamber orchestra, 2000
- I Am-Are You?, for French horn and tape, 2001
- Ö, for solo violin, 2002
- Bastet the sun goddess, concerto for violin and orchestra, 2004
- Paths of sorrow, for chamber orchestra, 2005
- Skuggspel, 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, for 2 saxophones, 2007
- Sjörök under Stockholms broar, 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
- Fantasia i cirkel, quartet 2011
- Somebody is learning how to fly, for clarinet solo, 2011
- Jorun orm i öga, opera libretto: Kerstin Ekman, for The Academy of Vadstena, premiere summer 2013
Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- The Love Trilogy Daphne 1062
- Air Drum Phono Suecia
- Rydberg, Enström, Samuelsson, Parmerud, Lindwall, and Feiler, Caprice
