Brief bio

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Graduated Master of Fine Arts in Music (majored in classical guitar). Postgraduate studies include musicology and contemporary music at the "Ferienkurse" in Darmstadt and at IRCAM in Paris, e.g. studies with Boulez and Xenakis. 

Along with this Oratorio I am also writing and the "Symphony for the Waters", which is a composition for Symphony Orchestra with a marine musique concrète soundscape.

 Career... 

• Several years freelance guitarist in Europe; concert guitarist, chamber music and performed with various ensembles and orchestras, wrote articles published in periodicals / CD booklets. Teacher (music-history, guitar), now and then working in music shops in various cities in Europe. And always writing music. 
• 20-odd years in business… going there from music / freelance was “rather” a career change. However business life can really be a lot of fun, certainly when one gets to learn and develop (oneself and the business) the way I was privileged to do - pioneering the internet and everything which has to do with it. Throughout I had the pleasure of working with so many talented and skilled colleagues. 
• And always writing music, sometimes recording it, sometimes jotting down scribbled lines on pieces of paper. As per 2020 I am little by little finishing it, publishing it - hence this website.  

Born 1961, lived / studied / worked in Sweden, Greece, France, presently in Amsterdam the Netherlands. Other activities parenting, gardening, reading, cooking. Multilingual English - Dutch - French - Swedish. 

Photo by Margareta Svensson