Mirjam Tally

Estonian composer living in Sweden since 2006, born November 28, 1976 in Tallinn. She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in 2000; she studied composition under Prof. Lepo Sumera and simultaneously furthered her knowledge of electronic music with Rauno Remme. 2003 post-graduate studies at EAoM. She regularly hosts programs of contemporary music on Estonian Radio's Klassikaraadio channel. Tally's compositional interests lie in the fusing of acoustic and electronic modes of expression as well as in uncommon instrumental configurations (kannel, accordion, didgeridoo, tanbur, etc). Since 2006, Tally lives on the island of Gotland, Sweden. In 2009-2010, she was Composer in Residence at Swedish Radio P2 channel. In 2017, Tally was Composer in Residence at Studio Acusticum in Piteå and at Västerås Sinfonietta, Sweden. In 2018, Tally´s album "Interferences" won the Manifest prize in Sweden, in category "best experimental". In 2009, Tally's orchestral work “Turbulence” was selected as one of recommended works at International Rostrum of Composers. She has received 2 prizes for her work “Turbulence” - the Composer Prize of the Estonian Music Days Festival (2007) and the small Christ Johnson Music Prize (2008) by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2021, she received the Carin Malmlöf-Forssling Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music for “her rich and headstrong art that moves freely between different musical forms and expressions. As a composer, Mirjam Tally evokes a very special sound world, magical and at the same time captivating, where there are no limits to the creative joy and imagination”.