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Anders Eliasson was born in 1947 in the province of Dalecarlia in Sweden.
From 1966 = 1972 he studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with among others Ingvar Lidholm (composition) and Valdemar Soderholm (harmony and counterpoint).
As far back as the 70s Eliasson was recognized as one of the most interesting Swedish composers. His orchestral works Canto in Lontanza (1977), Turnings (1978) and Canto del vagabondo (1979) were particularly acclaimed, as well as the wind quintet La fievre (1978) and the whole series of shorter instrumental solo pieces called Disegno.
By the mid-eighties his oeuvre was already quite extensive and it soon became apparent that in Eliasson Sweden had a composer of international potential.
In 1987 came his true breakthrough with the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 for which he received a number of awards.
In the summer of 1991 Eliasson was invited to the Lapland Festival in Arjeplog as Composer-in-Residence, where his piano quartet Fogliame (1990) and his String Quartet (1991) were premiered, and in 1993 he was appointed guest professor of composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
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