Bengt Tommy Andersson (born 26 July 1964 in Borås, Sweden) is a Swedish conductor and composer. Andersson received his training as a conductor at the

Royal College of Music, Stockholm The Royal College of Music, Stockholm () is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The institution was made independent of the Academy in 1971, and ...

, where he worked with

Eric Ericson Eric Gustaf Ericson (26 October 1918 – 16 February 2013) was a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher. Life and career He graduated from the Royal College of Music (''Kungl. Musikhögskolan'') in Stockholm in 1943 and ...

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Brian Priestman Brian Priestman (10 February 192718 April 2014) was a British conductor and music educator. Biography Priestman was born in Birmingham, England. He studied at the University of Birmingham (BMus Music; MA Music, 1952) and the Royal Conservator ...

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and

Gennady Rozhdestvensky Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE (; 4 May 1931 – 16 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Biography Gennady Rozhdestvensky was born in Moscow. His parents were the noted conductor and pedagog ...

. Andersson has conducted all of the major orchestras and at most opera houses in Sweden – and many elsewhere. From 2003 to 2009 he was Professor of Orchestral Playing at

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, and since 2012 he is Professor of Orchestral Conducting at Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden. He has also composed music since he was 11 years old. He studied composition with Sven-Eric Johanson,

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, and

Sven-David Sandström Sven-David Sandström (30 October 1942 – 10 June 2019) was a Swedish classical composer of operas, oratorios, ballets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works. Life and career Sandström was born in Motala and studied art history and mus ...

in the 1980s. Since 1995 his music has become more and more in demand and he is continuously composing music. There are more than 100 compositions by B. Tommy Andersson. 2006 saw the première of Andersson's opera ''William'', a fantasy on

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and

Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe ( ; Baptism, baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the English Renaissance theatre, Eli ...

commissioned by the Vadstena Academy; the libretto was written by Håkan Lindquist. Andersson was the

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's Composer-in-Association for 2014-15. A new work for organ and orchestra, ''Pan'', premièred at the 2015

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Awards and honours

* 1996 - elected as a member of the Swedish Society of Composers (Föreningen svenska tonsättare) * 2002 - Made Member No. 944 of the

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References

External links

B Tommy Andersson's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, B. Tommy Swedish composers Swedish male composers Swedish male conductors (music) 1964 births Living people 21st-century Swedish conductors (music) 21st-century Swedish male musicians People from Borås