CV

1946

Born 21 July Northampton, England

1965-68

Hadow Music Scholar, Worcester College, Oxford –studies for Edmund Rubbra

1968

BA ( Oxon ) Music

1969

BMus ( Oxon ) in Composition – studies for Edmund Rubbra and Kenneth Leighton

1969-70

Exchange Scholar Swedish Institute Royal College of Music in Stockholm –Ingvar Lidholm´s composition class Institution of Musicology, Uppsala University

1971-74

Composition studies for Ingvar Lidholm at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm

1972-

-Member of Fylkingen, Society for experimental music, Stockholm, member of the Board (1977-78)

1973

MA (Oxon)

1973-80

Head of Music, Kursverksamheten vid Stockholms Universitet (Adult education)

1975-

Member of Swedish Composers Association (FST) och ISCM

1976-84

Music Advisor, Folkuniversitetet Stockholm (Adult education)

1976-88

Member of the Board, Musik för Ungdom (Youth and Music, Sweden)

1977

Composition studies for Witold Lutoslawski ( summer course in Croatia)

1981-83

Head of Dept for Higher Music Courses, Kursverksamheten vid Stockholms Univ

1983-2011

Head of Music, and Teacher of Composition and Music Theory,
Kapellsbergs Musikskola, Dept of Music at Härnösands Folk High School, Sweden

1988-94

Vice-Chairman, Härnösand Music Association

1989-

Chairman, Föreningen NYMUS, Society for New Music Härnösand

2002-

Founder member of the Board, Swedish National Association of New Music Promoters (RANK), Chairman from 2005.

2007

Honorary Fellow of Birmingham Conservatoire, England.

2009

Silver Apple Award for services to Adult Education in MittNorrland. Sweden

2010

Salmo Sahlin Stipendium for services to music in Västernorrland, Sweden

Kompositioner

Over 150 compositions written between 1962 and the present. Many radio broadcasts
and CDs released by the Swedish companies BIS and Intim Musik.

Books, articles etc

Musik från början (Music from the Beginning) Book 1 co-author with Rakel Grünewald, Gustav Mankell and Claes-Göran Skoglund Studieförlaget 1975
Book 2 Studieförlaget 1976
Hilding Rosenberg – a catalogue of works, publ. Swedish Music Academy 1977
Hilding Rosenberg – article in Grove Dictionary of Music 1978
Hilding Rosenberg publ Swedish Music Information Center revised 1992
Musiklyssning(Music Appreciation) – co-author with Åke Åkesson 1978 Folkuniversitetet
(available from Peter Lyne)
Studier i Gehörslära(Studies in Aural Training), publ. Folkuniversitetet 1982
Fler vid pianot – group method for piano. Co-author with Rakel Grünewald och Itte Lundgren LTs Förlag 1987 ( available from Peter Lyne)
New Music in Iceland by Göran Bergendal. Translation from Swedish. Publ 1991 ITM ( Iceland
Music Information Centre