Britta Byström January 24th 2025
Britta Byström
Composer
Britta Byström was born in Sundsvall, Sweden 1977 and began her musical career as a
trumpetplayer. In her teens, she began to compose music and studied composition at the
Royal University of Music in Stockholm 1995-2001, where her main teachers were Pär
Lindgren and Bent Sørensen.
Byström has composed for most sizes of orchestras and contexts including chamber music,
vocal music and opera, but the emphasis has been on orchestral music. Some of
those who have performed her music are the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich
Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
She has written pieces directly for soloists such as Malin Broman, Rick Stotijn, Radovan
Vlatkovic and Janine Jansen.
Parallel Universes, a piece commissioned by BBC Proms to celebrate the 150th anniversary
of the Royal Albert Hall, was first performed in 2021 with the BBC Philharmonic
Orchestra and conductor John Storgårds.
During 2024, a new violin concerto, Shortening Days, written for Janine Jansen and
co-commissioned by the NDR Elbphilharmonie and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Orchestra, will have its premiere in Sweden and Germany.
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