GRANTS AND AWARDS

Undulating Blue, for orchestra, was nominated for the Swedish Music Publishers Association Award 2019


Composer of the year 2016,  Bergslagen Chamber Symphony Orchestra


Clarinet Concerto: Verdure was nominated for the Swedish Music Publishers Association Award 2015


King of Clouds for Orchestra was awarded second prize in the ”All Russian Composers Competition

named after Andrey Petrov”. September 19th, St. Petersburg, Grand Hall

Link to english translation about the prize


Transient Skies for orchestra was nominated for the Swedish Music Publishers Association Award 2013


Swarms for 7 musicians was representing Sweden in the international music competition Rostrum 2012


Konstnärsnämnden  Stipend: 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019

Stim Stipend: 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2018

Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse Stipend: 1991, 1993, 1994, 2000

Anna Whitlocks minnesfond Stipend: 1993 - 1995

New England Conservatory Scholarship, 1993 - 1995

Berklee College of Music Achievement Scholarship, 1992, 1993

Gålö stipend:  1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993


Finalist in the composition contest  ”Kreativa Kvinnor”, Örebro Kammarmusik Festspel 1998

with the composition Möten for string quartet.

Belönad med framförande och prischeck i Örebro Konserthus 8/8 1998


Winner of New England Conservatory's composition contest 1994,

with the composition Trio for violin, cello and piano,

performed by the New England Conservatory Honors Piano Trio, Jordan Hall, Boston, USA,  24/4 1994


Winner of the Soren Christensen Achievement Award in Filmscoring 1992

Berklee College of Music, Filmscoring Department, Professional Writing Division



EDUCATION

Composition: Royal College of Music in Stockholm, 2002 – 2005

Studies for Pär Lindgren


Teacher's certificate in Music Theory: Royal College of Music in Stockholm, 2000 - 2002


Master of Art in Composition, Academic Honors.

New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA, USA, 1993 - 1995

Composition for Arthur Berger, John Heiss, Robert Cogan, Malcolm Peyton

Wind Ensemble Conducting for Frank Battisti

Orchestra Conducting for Richard Hoenich


Dual Bachelor Degree's in Composition and Film Scoring, Summa Cum Laude

Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, USA, 1989 - 1993

Composition for John Bavicchi, Tom MacGah, Dennis LeClaire, Scott Fessler

Orchestra Conducting for David Callahan, George Monseur

Piano, jazz/classical for Neil Olmstead, Ray Santisi, Jeff Covell, Ed Bedner

Ensemble, Jazz/Fusion, for Bruno Råberg, Roy Okutani, Herman Johnson, David Hollander...

Film Scoring: composition techniques and styles, film esthetics and psychology, recording & studio techniques,

computer and synthesis, film history,  music editing

Jazz improvisation, composition and arranging


Studies in sculpture and painting: Målarskolan Idun Lovén, Stockholm, 1987 - 1989

Social anthropology, Stockholms Universitet, 1987

TBV preparatory art school, Stockholm, 1985 - 1987

Two year preparatory music school : Musiklinjen, Fridhems Folkhögskola, Svalöv, 1983 - 1985

Piano studies for Karin Boesen 1982-1983, Gunnar Holmberg and Mats Runge 1972 -1983

Bassoon, 1981 -1985



COURSES

EAM Introduction och training : The Electro-acoustic musik studio in Stockholm (EMS) VT 1999 

Multimedia production for Musicians: Royal College of Music in Stockholm/AF Kultur Media, HT 1998

Course in computer science and music programs : Royal College of Music in Stockholm/AF Kultur Media, april-maj 1998

Course for freelancing Culture Workers : Göran Smedfors AB, Stockholm/AF Kultur Media, VT 1996



MUSIC TEACHING /WORKSHOPS/ LECTURER

Freelance: composition, piano, music theory and ear training, film music  since 1982


Pre-concert Talks at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 2011-2012


Umeå University: 2019 -

Arranging/Composition/Music Theory


Musikvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms Universitet,  2006 – 2011

Music theory: harmony and ear training


Nordiska Musikgymnasiet, 2002 – 2011

Music theory; music theory and ear training, arranging and composition, jazz piano

Södra Latin Spring semester 2010

Music theory and ear training


Lilla Akademin: Pre-College, Nov 2009 - Feb  2010

Music theory


Birkagårdens Folkhögskola, 2003 – 2005 

Music theory: harmony, arranging and composition


Kulturama, 2001 – 2002, Musikproduktionslinjen, samt kvällskurser

Songwriting, Film scoring,music theory and ear training


Stockholms Kulturskola, vikariat 1996, 1999-2000, 

Piano, vocal, choir, ensemble, theory


Orust Kommunala Musikskola, vikariat VT 1983,

Piano



Other work

Usher/Head Usher at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 1995 - 2015

Katarina Leyman (1963)
Freelance Composer

Composer in Residence at Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden, 2012 - 2015

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The Swedish composer Katarina Leyman (1963), originally from the Island Orust on the west coast of Sweden, now lives and works in Stockholm. She studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 2002-2005. During the years 1989-1995 she studied in Boston, USA where she took a Master's degree in composition at New England Conservatory of Music 1995 and dual Bachelor degrees in composition and film music composition at Berklee College of Music 1993.


Color and texture, shape and movement are often starting points, and form-building elements in her music. Ideas for compositions can come from various natural phenomena such as fish moving in shoals, DNA chains, water molecules, volcanic activity and clouds.


Katarina often work in close collaboration with various musicians composing predominantly orchestral and chamber music. Her music has been performed in Europe, Russia and the Americas, and presented at music festivals such as the Saxå Chamber Music jubilee festival 2015, Sweden; the  Brass festival Signal 2014 in Gävle, Sweden; Nordic Music Days Reykjavik 2011, Iceland; ISCM World New Music days Zagreb 2011, Croatia and the Baltic Sea Festival 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden.


A portrait CD, Vattenklanger, with chamber music was released 2019.


Undulating Blue, commissioned by the Swedish Radio Symphony orchestra, was premiered May 16th 2019, in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm. The piece was nominated for The Swedish Music Publishers Association Award 2019. From July 2012 to June 2015 Katarina was appointed Composer in Residence for the Norrlandsopera symphony orchestra (NO), Umeå, Sweden. The assignment included composing three large-scale and one shorter orchestral work: Concerto for Orchestra: An Odyssey premiered in Umeå November 26th 2015 with the orchestra and Daniel Cohen; Clarinet Concerto: Verdure premiered November 27th 2014 by the clarinettist Stefan Harg and the orchestra under Damian Iorio. The concerto was nominated for the Swedish Music Publishers Association Award 2015; Transient Skies an orchestral piece in four movements, was premiered September 2012 by the orchestra under Joana Carneiro; Transient Skies was nominated for The Swedish Music Publishers Association Award 2013. King of Clouds, the first part of Transient Skies won the second prize in the ”All Russian Composers Competition named after Andrey Petrov”, St. Petersburg, Grand Hall, September 19th 2014.


Other orchestral works are:  Roller Coaster: Super 8 premiered in January 2014 by NO and Rumon Gamba, commissioned by the Norrlandsopera for Beethoven & Beyond, Umeå - European Capital of Culture 2014; Solar Flares, commissioned by SR Berwaldhallen for the Baltic Sea Festival 2010, premiered by the Helsinki Philharmonic orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen; Streams premiered in June 2006 at the Stockholm Concert Hall by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Michael Bartosch.


Examples of chamber music are: Tales of Lost Times for solo viola commissioned by the Stockholm Concert Hall and the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) for Ellen Nisbeth and the 2017/18 ECHO Tour; I skymningen (In the Twilight) for flute, viola, harp and contrabass (2015) for the Saxå Chamber music festival 2015; a Weave of Threads for piano trio (2014) commissioned by the Phoenix Concerts NYC; Fata Morgana for brass quintet (2014) commissioned by Musik Gävleborg for the Brass festival Signal Gävle 2014; Abandoned Places for 10 piece chamber ensemble (2013) commissioned by KammarensembleN, Stockholm; Friction: string quartet no.2 (2013) commissioned by the Swedish Radio P2; Swarms for 7 musicians (2011), commissioned by Birgitta Tollan, representing Sweden in the international music competition Rostrum 2012; Färger (Colors) (2008) commissioned by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Wind Quintet; Vattenklanger for soprano, clarinet and piano 2010; and several duos and solo pieces such as Crepúscolo for soprano and piano (2015) text Alfonsina Storni, Embroideries, 5 pieces for piano solo (2015) and Tre Faser for bassett clarinet (2008)


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