B. Tommy Andersson
B. Tommy Andersson (born 26 July 1964 in Borås, Sweden) is a Swedish conductor and composer.
Andersson received his training as a conductor at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, where he worked with Eric Ericson, Péter Eötvös, Brian Priestman, Sergiu Comissiona and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Andersson conducted most of the major orchestras in Sweden in his twenties and thirties – and many elsewhere – before focussing resolutely on composition after the success of his breakthrough work, the percussion concerto Apollo, in 1995.[1] Since 2003 he has been Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Music Academy in Gothenburg. Andersson is a member of the Swedish Society of Composers.
2006 saw the première of Andersson's opera William, a fantasy on William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe commissioned by the Vadstena Academy;[2] the libretto was written by Håkan Lindquist. Andersson was the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's Composer-in-Association for 2014-15.[1] A new work for organ and orchestra, Pan, premièred at the 2015 BBC Proms[3]
Awards and honours
- 1996 - elected as a member of the Swedish Society of Composers (Föreningen svenska tonsättare)[4]
- 2002 - Made Member No 944 of the Board of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music[5]
References
- 1 2 Mellor, Andrew (9 May 2014). "B Tommy Andersson to be Composer-in-Association at BBC National Orchestra of Wales for 2014-15". Gramophone. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ Forsling, Göran. "Andersson - Satyricon". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ "Prom 64: Nielsen, B Tommy Andersson & Mahler". BBC. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ "B Tommy Andersson". Föreningen svenska tonsättare. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ "Ledamöter". Kungl. Musikaliska akademien. Retrieved 30 September 2015.