{"id":9054,"date":"2023-01-25T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alba.fi\/?post_type=composer&#038;p=9054"},"modified":"2023-01-25T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T11:07:10","slug":"bystrom-britta-b-1977","status":"publish","type":"composer","link":"https:\/\/alba.fi\/en\/composer\/bystrom-britta-b-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystr\u00f6m, Britta (b. 1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Britta Bystr\u00f6m <\/strong>was born in Sundsvall 1977 and began her musical career as a trumpet player. In her teens, she began to compose music and studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 1995-2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bystr\u00f6m has composed for most sizes of orchestras and contexts including chamber music, vocal music and opera, but the emphasis has been on orchestral music. Some of those who have performed her music are the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Gu\u0308rzenich Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has written pieces directly for soloists such as Malin Broman, Rick Stotijn, Radovan Vlatkovic and Janine Jansen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, the viola concerto A Walk After Dark received the da capo -prize at the Brandenburger Biennale, Germany. In 2016, Bystr\u00f6m was named winner of the American \u201dElaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers\u201d. The song cycle Notes From the City of the Sun was selected as one of ten \u201drecommended works\u201d at the International Rostrum For Composers 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parallel Universes, a piece commissioned by BBC to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Royal Albert Hall, was&nbsp;first performed at a Prom concert in August 2021 with BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Storg\u00e5rds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2016, Britta Bystr\u00f6m is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false},"class_list":["post-9054","composer","type-composer","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alba.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/composer\/9054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alba.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/composer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alba.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/composer"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alba.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}