Marie Samuelsson (born 15 February 1956) is a Swedish composer.
Marie Samuelsson (born 15 February 1956) is a Swedish composer.
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. [1]
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. [2]
Selected works include:
Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:
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