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Welcome to the website of the Swedish composer Britta Byström! ”…Britta Byström has a real orchestral flair and has succeeded in creating a sound-world all of her own.” (Hubert Culot, MusicWeb International )
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Seven pieces by Britta Byström was performed at Katrina...
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English biography. Britta Byström was born in Sundsvall 1977...
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Compositions – Britta Byström, composer. Compositions sorted...
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Britta Byström’s piece Delusions (Förvillelser) is included...
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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.
Britta Byström is an orchestral composer of distinction whose boundless imagination is tethered by fastidious care. Her work list already contains a string of focused and beguiling scores for orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic. She is also known for engaging ensemble, vocal and stage works.
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Clarinet, 5 Percussion. Britta Byström was born in Sundsvall 1977 and began her musical career as a trumpet player. 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.
Taking her inspiration from Modest Mussorgsky’s famous suite ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, Byström has composed around 20 pieces with some variation of ‘walk’ since 2015 – from small pieces for duo instruments to large scale orchestral works. Mussorgsky famously and playfully used the promenade between the paintings as a recurring theme.
