Lars Ekström

Swedish classical composer and professor at Royal The Academy of Music in Stockholm, born 1956 in Kalmar, died in May 2015 He studied piano and music theory in Copenhagen from 1975 and then came to Kungl. The College of Music where he studied composition. He also studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, St Cecilia in Rome where he had Franco Donatoni as his teacher, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Many of Lars Ekström's works have been successfully performed at international music festivals and concert halls around the world. He has also received a number of prizes, including the Christ Johnson prize, awarded in 1996 by the King. The Academy of Music, for his symphonic work: "Through the shard of a prism", a work inspired by August Strindberg's paintings. Lars Ekström's work as a composer includes over 100 works such as opera, orchestral works, instrumental concerts, string quartets, chamber music, solo works and electroacoustic music. At KMH, Lars Ekström worked as a professor of composition from the mid-1990s and was also for a time director of studies for Edsberg's chamber music education.