Marie Samuelsson

Marie Samuelsson (born 15 February 1956) is a Swedish composer.

Biography Marie Samuelsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied piano and improvisation at Birkagården College from 1979 to 1981, musicology at the Stockholm University from 1982 to 1983 and composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1987 to 1995 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.

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.

Awards 2008 Kurt Atterberg Prize 2024 Rosenberg Prize

Works Selected works include: Andra platser (Other places), for alto voice, cello, and percussion, 1989 Katt: Nio liv (Cat: Nine lives), for woodwind quintet, 1989 Från Indien till Mars (From India to Mars), dance music for string quartet with guitar improvisation, 1990–91 Den natten (That night), for choir, 1991 Signal for saxophone quartet, 1991 Lufttrumma I (Air shaft I), for alto saxophone, piano, and percussion, 1993 Troll for youth orchestra, 1993 Krom (Chrome), for brass quintet, 1994 Lufttrumma II (Air shaft II), for flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, and double bass, 1994 Magica de Hex (Magica de Spell), for orchestra, 1994 Pingvinkvartett (Penguin quartet), for flute, violin, cello, and piano, 1996 Sirén, for saxophone quartet, 1996 I vargens öga (In the eye of the wolf), for solo saxophone and tape, 1997 Rotationer (Rotations), for string orchestra, 1997 (revised, 2003) Lufttrumma III (Air shaft III), for orchestra, 1999 Flow for chamber orchestra, 2000 I Am-Are You?, for French horn and tape, 2001 Ö (Island), for solo violin, 2002 Bastet the sun goddess, concerto for violin and orchestra, 2004 Paths of sorrow, for chamber orchestra, 2005 Skuggspel (Shadow play), for oboe and percussion, 2005 Eleven hundred and twelve degrees, for cello and tape, 2006 Fear and Hope, for orchestra, 2006 Singla, for orchestra, 2007 Komposition-Improvisation (Composition-Improvisation), for 2 saxophones, 2007 Sjörök under Stockholms broar (Sea smoke under Stockholms bridges), for string quartet, 2008 The Horn in the wind, concerto for horn and orchestra, 2009 Airborne Lines and Rumbles, for orchestra, 2009 Fanfar till livet, for brass section, 2010 Alive, for violin, 2010 Fantasia i cirkel, quartet 2011 Somebody is learning how to fly, for clarinet solo, 2011 Jorun orm i öga, opera libretto: Kerstin Ekman, for The Academy of Vadstena, premiere summer 2013 (work in progress)

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including: The Love Trilogy (2019) Daphne 1062 Air Drum (2003) Phono Suecia Rydberg, Enström, Samuelsson, Parmerud, Lindwall, and Feiler, (includes Signal) (1997) Caprice