Fredrik Högberg

Fredrik Högberg
Born 45  Sweden Vellinge, Sweden
Occupation Composer
Era Contemporary

Fredrik Karl Kristian Högberg, born 5 February 1971 in Vellinge, Sweden, is a Swedish composer and producer.[1] He resides in the old courthouse in Nyland, Ångermanland (mid-Sweden).[2]

Fredrik Högberg grew up in Svedala, southern Sweden, and studied at the Folk High School of Framnäs, Piteå 1987–1991. Högberg has studied composition mainly with professor Jan Sandström at Piteå School of Music (a part of Luleå University of Technology).[1] He earned a licentiate degree in performing arts at Luleå University of Technology 2012. He teaches composition at Piteå School of Music since 2015.[3]

Life and career

Official picture of Högberg

From the early 2000 Högberg has worked mainly with works that contains multimedia, like the music film Brassbones - a brass western (2001)[4] and the concertos Ice Concerto (2012)[5] and The Accordion King (2014).[5]

Works like Dancing with Silent Purpose and Rocky Island Boat Bay are examples of Högberg's humorous approach to his musical creation, and his inclination to combine contemporary art music with elements of popular music.[6][7][8]

Högberg's work is not seldom controversial; while working with the Ice Concerto Högberg shot burning pianos being dropped from 40 metres onto the ice of Ångermanälven.[9] He was charged with environmental crimes, which were later dropped.[10][11] 2016 he wrote the music (in collaboration with singer/songwriter Nicolai Dunger) for the critically acclaimed opera Stilla min eld, inspired by the circumstances of Eva Rausings death in Belgravia, London, 2012.[12][13][14][15]

Fredrik Högberg has collaborated with soloists as, among others, Christian Lindberg, Anders Paulsson, Jörgen Sundeqvist, Niklas Sivelöv, Øystein Baadsvik, Ole Edvard Antonsen and Martin Fröst, and many international orchestras and ensembles which has led to several acclaimed works.[16][17][18][19]

Högberg's production is published by Gehrman's musikförlag, Stockholm. His trombone music is published by Edition Tarrodi.[20]

Awards

Högberg has won numerous awards and stipends. In 2006 he received one of the biggest grant to-date given to a Swedish composer, €200.000, to develop the first virtual opera house on the internet - iOPERA.[21][22] In 2014 his piano concerto Ice Concerto was nominated to the Nordic Council Music Award.[23]

List of works

Solo Instrument

Chamber music

Tape/multimedia

Film

Works for orchestra

Concertos

Orchestra

Ballet music

Vocal music

Choir

Vocals and chamber ensemble

Choir and orchestra

Opera

Vocals and orchestra

External links

Fredrik Högberg's website
Fredrik Högberg's profile at Gehrmans förlag.
Edition Tarrodi
Luleå tekniska universitet
Brassbones

References

  1. 1 2 "Fredrik Högberg - Uppslagsverk - NE".
  2. ↑ "Tingshuset blir operametropol när nya ägare flyttar in".
  3. ↑ "Komposition - Luleå tekniska universitet, LTU - forskning och utbildning i världsklass".
  4. ↑ "Brassblåsande westernhjältar i Stöde".
  5. 1 2 Radio, Sveriges. "The Accordion King - en hyllning till Ådalens dragspelskungar - P1 Kultur/Kulturnytt".
  6. ↑ Högberg, F. (2008). Dancing with Silent Purpose [Recorded by Fröst, M., Australian Chamber Orchestra, Tognetti, R.]. On Dances to a Black Pipe[CD]. Location: BIS. (2011)
  7. ↑ Högberg, F. (2006). Rocky Island Boat Bay [Recorded by Baadsvik, Ø., Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Rondin, M.]. On 21st-Century Tuba Concertos[CD]. Location: BIS. (2008)
  8. ↑ "Who is Fredrik Högberg?".
  9. ↑ "Spektakulärt slut för filmade pianon".
  10. ↑ Radio, Sveriges. "Brinnande pianon kan vara miljöbrott - Mitt i musikens veckomagasin".
  11. ↑ User, Super. "Tonsättaren frias från misstankar om miljöbrott - Tidningen Kulturen".
  12. ↑ "Opera: Den makabra historien om paret Rausing - en berättelse om stor kärlek".
  13. ↑ "Världspremiär för Fredrik Högberg – opera om mångmiljardären Rausing som inte kunde lämna sin döda fru".
  14. ↑ "Stilla min eld - NLL.se".
  15. ↑ "'I heard her slide off the bed... then she exhaled and her eyes dimmed': Billionaire Tetra Pak heir Hans Rausing tells inquest he hid wife Eva's body under 12 layers of clothes".
  16. ↑ "Genial Högberg i Trondheim".
  17. ↑ "Prelude, Fnugg & Riffs - Øystein Baadsvik - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic".
  18. ↑ "Øystein Baadswik spielt "Rocky Island Boat Bay" – Veranstaltungen - Niederrhein-Kult". 30 November 2016.
  19. ↑ Oehmsen, Heinrich. "Ein Posaunist bleibt nicht lange allein".
  20. ↑ "Edition Tarrodi - Trombone sheet music for sale and rent".
  21. ↑ Radio, Sveriges. "Rekordstipendium till operascen på nätet - Mitt i musiken".
  22. ↑ Radio, Sveriges. "Svensk internetopera i startgroparna - Mitt i musiken".
  23. ↑ ""Ice Concerto" af Fredrik Högberg — Nordic cooperation".
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