Born in Uppsala on 25th January 1955, grew up in Piteå. She studied the violin, mostly at Framnäs Community College, as it then was, later studying composition privately there with Sune Smedeby. She then studied composition with Gunnar Bucht at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, (1975-1979), and began studying musicology at the University of Stockholm in the autumn of 1979. She works as a freelance composer.
One is struck by the conscientious detailing of her compositions, which indeed result from protracted processes of deliberation and selection. Spontaneous inspiration, however, also plays an important part and can determine the direction of the composing process. The distinct, indeed sharp contours of gesture and line — thoroughly worked-out counterpoint — intensity, variety and complexity of rhythm — these are some of the hallmarks of her style, which is frequently that of chamber music. She looks for personal expression at the point of intersection between dreamlike moods and inspired confession. On top of this comes her penchant for the burlesque and the bizarre — stylistic anomalies, parodies, etc. She is greatly interested in both new and old music, European and non-European, and is equally catholic in her appreciation of folk music and, to some extent, pop and jazz. She is also very interested in other arts, above all fiction and poetry, and she feels a spiritual affinity not least with the poetry of Harry Martinson and Nils Ferlin combined with an increasing interest in contemporary Swedish poets. During the 90s her work with larger and more extensive musical forms and structures has greatly increased. H-GP
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