Erik Michael Karlsson: biography
Erik Michael Karlsson (Nynäshamn, Sweden, 1967)
• residence: Malmö, Sweden
• composer
Erik Mikael Karlsson has been working as a composer of electroacoustic music since 1985. He studied composition at EMS in Stockholm for Tamas Ungvary among others. Erik Mikael Karlsson has been working and lecturing at the major institutions around Europe and he has been awarded a vast number of prestigious international prizes for his music. Commissions have been made from the GMEB, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Swedish Concert Institute, Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, The Cullberg Ballet, Sonic Arts Network etc. In 1992-93 he was working in Berlin on a grant from DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Erik Mikael Karlsson is also a teacher in composition at EMS in Stockholm and he has over the years contributed as a board member in a number of important Swedish music organisations. He is currently working with acclaimed choreographer Jens Østberg for a full-length ballet to be premiered in 1999 and with Swedish writer Fredrik Ekman and internationally acclaimed actress Ewa Frøling (starring in Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar-winning epic Fanny and Alexander) on a production for the scene.
Erik Michael Karlsson
