Madeleine Isaksson

Swedish composer living and working in France, born in 1956 in Stockholm. Isaksson studied between 1979 and 1987 at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. After graduating in the piano and ensemble teacher class for Gunnar Hallhagen, she started in the composition class with teachers such as Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström in composition, Pär Lindgren in electroacoustics, Arne Mellnäs in instrumentation and Bo Wallner in theory and analysis. In 1987 she traveled to Amsterdam for a year of study for the composer Louis Andriessen and then on to France, where she has lived and worked outside Paris since the early 1990s. She was elected in 1989 to "Föreningen svenska tonsättare" (the Association of Swedish Composers).