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Composer website: http://albertschnelzer.se/
ALBERT SCHNELZER ”one of Sweden’s foremost composers” (Classical Music Magazine, UK), made his international breakthrough at the Présence Festival in Paris 2004. His music is often described as energetic and forwardgoing, lyrical and fragile, but also directly accessible and intensly personal.
Albert Schnelzer was born in Värmland, Sweden on June 3 1972. Between 1994 and 2000 he studied at the Malmö Academy of Music and he has also studied at master’s level at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1998, while still a student, Albert Schnelzer won the competition Composers of Tomorrow with the orchestral work ”Erupto”, which was premiered by the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.
During the 21st century he has taken his place among the most widely noticed younger Swedish composers, and in 2004 he scored an international breakthrough when his Predatory Dances, commissioned by Radio France, was premiered at the Présence Festival in Paris. Albert Schnelzer’s successful concert opener A Freak in Burbank was performed at the BBC Proms 2010 in Royal Albert Hall and was given rave reviews by the UK press. His listed works include orchestral compositions, concertos and a wide spectrum of chamber music. Albert Schnelzer is represented on several CD recordings, including a portrait CD on record label Daphne, and is published by Gehrmans Musikförlag. His music has been performed by orchestras worldwide such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, The Swedish Radio Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Stockholm and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors such as Daniel Harding, Thomas Dausgaard, Mark Wigglesworth, Kirill Karabits, Thomas Sondergaard, Nikolaj Znaider, Lionel Bringuier, John Storgårds, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Jaime Martin and many others. Albert Schnelzer has also had close collaborations with ensembles such as The Brodsky Quartet and musicians such as Francois Leleux.
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