Katarina Andreasson

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Katarina Andreasson is a Swedish violinist and conductor.

Andreasson began her musical education at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen and continued it in Stockholm, New York and Prague. At the age of 22 she was concertmaster with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and in 1995 she joined the Gothenburg Opera in the same position. From 1997 she was concertmaster of the GSwedish Chamber Orchestra , with which she performed Peteris Vasks ' violin concerto as a soloist . In the same year she made her international debut as a violin soloist at the Royal Festival Hall with Howard Blake's violin concerto "The Leeds".

From 1996 to 2001 Andreasson taught violin at the Gothenburg Music College. From 2003 to 2007 she studied conducting with Jorma Panula at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and then from 2008 to 2013 she was chief conductor and artistic director of the Karlskoga Symfoniorkester . In 2012 she became a professor at the University of Örebro University of Music and director of the Academic Symphony Orchestra.

swell