Anders Eliasson

His "earliest musical experiences originated from within myself: they were my own singing, and familiar tunes I heard on the radio.

"The first real piece of music" which Eliasson heard "on a gramophone record was Haydn’s Symphony No.

"[4] Under Söderholm, he studied counterpoint: there followed five years’ intensive work on Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso and above all Johann Sebastian Bach,[5] "the highest form of energy with which it’s possible to come into contact.

In 1991 he was composer in residence at the Lapland Festival in Arjeplog and visiting professor at Sibelius Academy Helsinki in the academic year 1993/94.

[8] From 2005 until his death, Anders Eliasson was composer-in-residence of the New York-based Arcos Chamber Ensemble.

When he was accepted for Ingvar Lidholm's composition class, he was, he says, shocked, because "when I came into contact with luminaries such as Karl [sic!]

At that time, Stockholm was "a modernist fortress: dodecaphony, serialism, aleatoric music, musique concrète – there was every technique and trend and fashion.