Gotland School of Music Composition

The Gotland School of Music Composition (sv. Gotlands tonsättarskola) is a folk high school for musical composition based in Visby, Gotland. The school offers two educational programs "Course in composition (2 years) and Composition - Contemporary (1 year).

The school tries to achieve a creative environment for young composers. There is pianos, a music studio for EAM and a music libery. The composer Mattias Svensson is the educational leader. Composers like Per Mårtensson and Henrik Strindberg hold seminars and individual lesson on weakly basis. Sweden's most famous composer Sven-David Sandström worked at the school previously.

Every year the students arrange the music festival "Ljudvågor", where professional musicians performs the students music. The festival has featured ensembles like Sonanza, Swedish Radio Choir, Norrbotten NEO and Pearls Before Swine Experience.

The school has an ongoing cooperation with Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC).

Jan Risberg, conductor of The Sonanza Chamber Ensemble has stated that: "The Gotland School of Music Composition is the most important happening in the swedish contemporary music scene since The Monday Group in the 1940s."

Many established young composers in Sweden have studied at the school, among them Sofia Jernberg and Tony Blomdahl.

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