Pär Lund (born 25 September 1972) is a Swedish

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and

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Education

Lund began composing and playing the piano at the age of 7 and initiated his formal education in 1991 with professor Esther Bodin-Karpe at the

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in Stockholm. In 1994 he continued at the

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where he until 2002 studied piano with professor Juhani Lagerspetz and composition with Erkki Jokinen and Olli Kortekangas. Following graduation, Lund concluded his studies at the masterprogram in piano at Stockholm's Royal College of Music 2002–2006 with professor Staffan Scheja. Lund has also participated in

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es for

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, Alfons Kontarsky, Radoslav Kvapil, Jacob Lateiner, László Simon, Valerian Vishnevsky and others.

Career

Lund's pianistic career began to show promise in his late teens when he in 1992 won Kil's International Piano Competition, followed by his entrance in the Ennio Porrino International Piano Competition in

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where he reached the finals and was awarded for finest interpretation. He has since given piano recitals in Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Russia, Luxembourg and other countries, and has appeared in both Swedish and Finnish radio and TV - most recently in the Swedish version of

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. As a composer Lund has drawn attention both in his native country and abroad, not least through his ''Variations on Sten Carlberg's theme to Bamse'' (a popular Swedish cartoon character) which led to a special feature in ''Musikspegeln'' on Swedish national television in 2003. The work consists of 7 variations and puts formidable demands on the pianist, despite its humorous nature. Among the original compositions special mention can be given to ''Darum'' (written as a reply to

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's piano piece ''Warum?'') along with its spin-off ''Xarum'', ''3^x'' which mixes a lyrical tonal language with a rigid mathematical subtext, the

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inspired ''(B)ragtime'', as well as ''To the Power Of...'' - a single-movement work for piano and orchestra which received its premiere on 8 June 2006 at the

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, with the

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under Michael Bartosch. Lund's activities as a composer has also been awarded several scholarships, including STIM's Scholarship for Composers, the Swedish Arts Board's Scholarship for Musicians, and Byggnads Cultural Scholarship presented to him by the then Swedish Prime Minister

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References

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Lund plays his Etude on Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lund, Par Swedish composers Swedish male composers Royal College of Music, Stockholm, alumni 1972 births Living people Musicians from Stockholm Swedish male pianists 21st-century Swedish pianists 21st-century Swedish male musicians