Tomas Friberg

composer

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1.Hoshisora
2.The Twilight Turns
3.Lost and Found
4.Amaterasu's mirror
5.Conversazione
6.Efterlämnade sånger
7.One word
8.Three nursery rhymes
9.Renai - for bass clarinet & vibraphone
10.A war elegy on a ukrainian folk melody
11.Conversations with Crusell
12.Der brænder et lys i natten
13.Scherzo
14.Karyōbinga
15.Anapestic music
Born in Stockholm 1962. Spent most of my youth singing in choirs at the Catharina Church
Started at the age of sixteen (1978) to work att EMS och spent some intense years working there. But electronic music wasn't my thing.
Took private lesssons i composition for Eberhard Eyser 1984-1986 while studying musicology at the Stockholm university
Studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 1986-1990 for amongst other Daniel Börtz (image), Bengt-Arne Wallin, Lars-Erik Rosell.
Chairman for the Foundation of young nordic music (UNM) 1988-1993. Participated with compositions in many of their music festivals and took lessons for, among others, Louis Andriessen (image)
Participated in Fondation Royaumont: Session de composition (1991) with Brian Ferneyhough and Tristan Murail (image)
Participated in Darmstadt ferienkurse fur neue musik (1992) studying with Brian Ferneyhough (image)
Following a kind of nervous breakdown in 1993 I decided to give up music. Instead I studied Library and Information science. It took ten years before I started to compose again.
Now I write music full time and in 2025 I was elected into the Swedish Society of Composers.