Erik Frieberg

Swedish flutist and illustrator, born January 30, 1951. Studies in Finland were interspersed with work in the Lahti City Orchestra and at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. After a semester at the Stockholm Academy of Music, he was employed by the Malmö Concert Hall Foundation in 1977. After a year, he continued his studies in Paris as a French state fellow with Michel Debost (en) and Raymond Guiot (en). When he finished his studies in Paris, he moved to Stockholm, where he engaged in freelance work for eight years until 1991 when he was employed as a flutist in the Royal Court Orchestra at the Royal Opera, where he worked until 2016 when he retired. Frieberg learned to draw autodidact during the years in Paris when he sent postcards home which he sketched himself. Since then, he has continued to draw a number of cartoons that can be seen almost anywhere in opera houses around the world.