(b. 23 March 1956, Kalmar – d. 28 May 2015, Stockholm).
Swedish composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in Europe.
Mr. Ekström began studying music theory and piano in Copenhagen in 1975. He later composition with Daniel Börtz, Pär Lindgren and Sven-David Sandström at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan – Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He also had lessons with Franco Donatoni at both the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Among his honours was the lesser prize in the Christ Johnson-prisen from the Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien – Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm (1996, for Genom skärvan av en prisma).
He taught composition and instrumentation at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan from 1992–2015 and served as rector of the Edsbergs Musikinstitut in Sollentuna from 1998–2015.
His publisher is STIM.
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE:
Palatset (incidental music), 1989
Artaud: bokstavsguden (opera in 2 acts, libretto by the composer, after Antonin Artaud), 1991–92
Pulcinella (incidental music), 1992
ORCHESTRAL:
L'Ombra come buio (concerto), flute, small orchestra, 1982, revised 1992
Fragile Chain (concerto), oboe, small orchestra, 1983
FluxAska, small orchestra, 1985
Pravda Love, percussion, string orchestra, 1986
Do it! (concerto), trombone, orchestra, 1987
Järnnatten, small orchestra, 1987
Bogilja..., string orchestra, 1989
Un Fond sombre, string orchestra, 1992
Genom skärvan av en prisma (after paintings by August Strindberg), small orchestra, 1994 (a suite was arranged, 1999)
Världen genom världar, 1995
Word, Crystal Circles and the World, string orchestra, 1996
Fantasy over a Bounded String, cello, orchestra, 1997
Rondo – The Dream Age, piano, orchestra, 1998
Fem bilder från Hallsta pappersbruk, flute, cello, piano, string orchestra, 2000
Konsert, violin, orchestra, 2002
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Narrens spel, glockenspiel, 1986
Year of Stone, marimba, 1987
Den accelererande isbiten, oboe, 1988
Den enda världen, cello, 1988
Chicanens clou..., guitar, 1989
L'Uccello esca (String Quartet No. 2), 1989
There are people who..., flute, 1989
The Wall, clarinet, 1989
Vargtimmen, clarinet, saxophone, violin, piano, 1990
Fjättrad, 6 percussion, 1991
Cry My Dreams, alto saxophone, piano, 1993
Beat My Ora Dora, flute, violin, cello, piano, 1994
Spröda schakt, percussion, 1995
Den fallande klockan, cello, 1996
Fragile Fragments, oboe, piano, 1996
Garden of Ice, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion, 1996
Mandala, vibraphone, 1996
Vision and Ashes, theorbo, 1996
Gimel, 2 cellos, 1997
The Wind and the Bell, tuba, piano, 1997
Cristalli temporanei, transverse flute, theorbo, viola da gamba, 1999
Dawn, soprano saxophone, 1999
Ripassare, trombone, piano, 2000
CHORAL:
Den sovande i dalen, 18 mixed voices, 1984
Ocean of Time, soprano, countertenor, bass-baritone, mixed chorus, trombone, violin, orchestra, 2001
VOCAL:
Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (text by Stéphane Mallarmé), bass-baritone, 2 orchestras, live electronics, 1985–86
PIANO:
Och jorden var som en spegel som långsamt frös till is, 1988
Chi tempo aspetta, 1999
DISCOGRAPHY
Beat My Ora Dora. (CAP: 21587)
Järnnatten. (PSCD: 57)
Cry My Dreams. (PSCD: 81)
Garden of Ice; Rondo – The Dream Age; Spröda schakt; Genom skärvan av en prisma (suite). (PSCD: 122)
Fragile Chain; Den accelererande isbiten. (PSCD: 128)