Madeleine Isaksson studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm from 1979 to 1987. She received a diploma as a piano and ensemble teacher after studying under Gunnar Hallhagen, and then studied composition under teachers including Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström (composition), Pär Lindgren (electroacoustic music), Arne Mellnäs (instrumentation), and Bo Wallner (music theory and analysis). In 1987 she lived in Amsterdam for a year of studies with the composer Louis Andriessen. Meetings with composers at different composition courses in Europe, Brian Ferneyhough, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman and Emmanuel Nunes, have all contributed to Isaksson’s development as a composer. In the early 1990s, she moved to France, where she lives and works near Paris.[1][2]
Works
Isaksson has composed for solo, duo, trio, quartet, ensemble, orchestra and vocal music.[3]
Instrumental
Chaconne for piano (1982)
7 formade frön ("7 Formed Seeds") for piano (1984)
Tång ("Seaweed") for english horn, basson, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, harp, harpsichord, cello and double bass (1984)
Capriola for baritone saxophone and trombone (1989)
Stråkvåg ("String Wave") for string quartet (1990)
Tjärnöga – Ö blå ("The Eye of the Lake – Blue Island") for horn solo (1990)
färde for violin and open grand piano (1991)
Som om ("As If") for alto flute, bass clarinet, viola, cello, double bass and percussion (1991)
Tillstånd - Avstånd ("States – Distances") for 16 musicians (1992)
inné ("innate") for flute, oboe, saxophone (clarinet), horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1993)
Fästen o fall ("Handholds and downfalls") for chamber orchestra (double wind quintet, bass clarinet and 17 strings) (1995–96)
"Taktavla", text by Katarina Frostenson (soprano, viola, cello)
Blad över blad / Feuille sur feuille for soprano, mezzo and cello with text by the composer (2000)
Ciels ("Skies") for six solo voices (soprano, mezzo, alto, tenor, baritone, bass) with text by Gérard Haller (2009–10)
Dans l'air (from Ciels) for 2 sopranos and mezzo-soprano with text from Météoriques by Gérard Haller (2010)
Terre de l'absence ("Earth of Absence") for six soloist voices: soprano, mezzo-soprano, alt, tenor, baritone and bass with text by Adonis in French translation by Anne Wade Minkowski (2012)
Hemligheten ("The Secret") for countertenor, recorder, baroque violin, viol and theorbo, text by Tomas Tranströmer (2013)
Várije ("Towards the Mountains") for children's opera choir (with two soprano soloists) and children's yoik choir (2013)
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