KIM HEDÅS - SWEDEN
BORN 3 APRIL
Kim Hedås studied composition and EAM at Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1991-97 with Pär Lindgren as her head teacher. In 1998–2000 she was composer in residence at Swedish Radio P2 and wrote, among other works, Diorama for the Swedish Radio Symphony orchestra. Hedås started to write almost only EAM but nowadays her production is more varied and includes orchestra, chamber and choir music. In 1994 her electro acoustic work Good Morning, Love - It's Springtime In My Heart! was awarded with Grand prix internationaux de musique electracoustique in Bourges, France. She also received an honourable mention at Stockholm Electronic Arts Award, the same year. In 2002 her children's opera Junker Nils av Eka was premiered at the Gothenburg's Opera with text by Astrid Lindgren. For the opening of Vara concert hall in 2003, Hedås composed Vindla for Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
She has also written for soloists such as Helen Jahren, Fredrik Ullén, Anita Agnas, the percussion ensemble Kroumata and the chamber ensemble Pärlor for Svin. Her music has been performed in numerous countries. In the late 80's Hedås made two shows with Swedish author/actor Jonas Gardell, Kim å Jonas klang- och jubelkavalkad, 1988, and Kim å Jonas går igen,1989. Since the 80's she has also written music for several theaters, for example for the city theatres in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and for Riksteatern, Dramaten, and Swedish Television. Her piece Princess Bat with the Underground Stars was commissioned by the Canadian record label Diffusion in MedDIA and was released on two of their records. In 2011 Hedås collaborated with artist Petra Gripp on a composed sculptural composition, an installation at Kivik Art Centre in Österlen, Sweden.
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ELISABETTA BRUSA - ITALY
BORN 3 APRIL
Defined as “a brilliant Anglo/Italian composer with a meticulous sense of orchestral colour and appealingly lyric gifts”, Elisabetta Brusa is a pioneer of a growing number of modern composers who have elected to write music in a tonal style that communicates with the public, while avoiding some of the clichés that so often lie in wait. Her idiom is always fresh and her music covers a wide range of expressions.
The third volume of orchestral works released in March 2015 on the Naxos label features her Symphony No. 1 and Merlin – Symphonic Poem, performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Daniele Rustioni.
The first two volumes of her orchestral works were recorded and released in 2002 also on the Naxos label with 11 works for small and large orchestra performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine conducted by Fabio Mastrangelo. Both CDs were received with glowing reviews [When so much “new” music is merely a collection of scrapes and blasts or a series of computer-generated shrieks and blips, it is a completely refreshing surprise to come across a composer who can write for an orchestra with an original voice that is worth hearing. Such a voice is that of Italian born Elisabetta Brusa. Educated in Milan, London and the United States Ms. Brusa is an inspired composer who has found some interesting things to say through the medium of the traditional orchestra.
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Simply Largo by Elisabetta Brusa
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