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The Gotland School of Music Composition (sv. ''Gotlands tonsättarskola'') is a

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for musical composition based in

Visby Visby () is an urban area in Sweden and the seat of Gotland Municipality in Gotland County on the island of Gotland with 24,330 inhabitants . Visby is also the episcopal see for the Diocese of Visby. The Hanseatic city of Visby is arguably th ...

Gotland Gotland (, ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the ...

. The school offers two educational programs Course in Composition (2 years) and Composition – Contemporary (1 year). The school endeavours to achieve a creative environment for young composers. There are

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

s, a music studio for

electroacoustic music Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instrumen ...

and a music library. The composer Mattias Svensson Sandell is the educational leader. Composers such as

Per Mårtensson Per Mårtensson (born 1967 in Östersund) is a Swedish composer and teacher. He is artistic director and teaches composition at The Gotland School of Music Composition. In 1998 he was given membership in The Society of Swedish Composers ''Th ...

and

Henrik Strindberg Henrik Strindberg (born 28 March 1954) is a Swedish composer of contemporary music. He studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1980 to 1987 where he studied for Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström amongst others. In ...

hold seminars and individual lessons on a weekly basis. Sweden's most famous living composer

Sven-David Sandström Sven-David Sandström (30 October 1942, in Motala – 10 June 2019) was a Swedish classical composer of operas, oratorios, ballets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works. Life and career Sandström studied art history and musicology at ...

previously worked at the school. Every year the students arrange the "Ljudvågor" music festival, during which professional musicians perform the students' music. The festival has previously featured ensembles such as

Sonanza Sonanza Ensemble is a Swedish ensemble focused on contemporary music. Jan Risberg is the conductor and leader. Musicians *Anna Lindal, violin I *Josef Cabrales Alin, violin II *Elsbeth Berg, viola *Ewa Rydström, cello *Mikael Karlsson, double b ...

, the Swedish Radio Choir, Norrbotten NEO and the Pearls Before Swine Experience. The school has an ongoing collaboration with the Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC). Jan Risberg, conductor of The Sonanza Chamber Ensemble has stated that: "The Gotland School of Music Composition has been the most important event in the Swedish contemporary music scene since

The Monday Group The Monday Group (sv. Måndagsgruppen) was an influential group of Swedish composers, musicians and musicologists. The group was formed in 1944 and gathered a group of young composers in the apartment of the group's leader Karl-Birger Blomdahl. Dur ...

in the 1940s." Many established young composers in Sweden have studied at the school, among them

Sofia Jernberg Sofia Jernberg (born 5 July 1983, in Ethiopia) is a Swedish experimental singer, improviser, and composer. She is widely known for expanding the "instrumental" possibilities of the voice and is active both as soloist and in various bands. Her musi ...

and Tony Blomdahl.

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Official Website

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International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) (in English) Study in from the university in Lund regarding Gotland School of Music Composition (in Swedish)Summary of the study from the university in Lund regarding Gotland School of Music Composition (in English)About the creation and importance of the school (in Swedish)
Contemporary classical music in Sweden

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