Ulf Grahn

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Ulf Grahn (January 17, 1942 - January 25, 2023),

Solna and lived the majority of his life in the United States specifically in the Washington, D.C. area.[4]

Life and education

Between 1962 and 1970, Grahn studied music primarily with

Lund.[5][6]

Ulf Åke Wilhelm Grahn died January 25, 2023 after a battle with large B cell CNS lymphoma.

Career

In 1974 Grahn and his wife, the pianist Barbro Dahlman, founded the Contemporary Music Forum, which presents performances of works by living European and American composers, and he was its program director until 1984.[7] Since 1985, he has operated the music publisher Edition NGLANI.[8] In 1988–89, he was artistic and managing director of the Lake Siljan Music Festival in Sweden.[7][8]

He taught at music schools in Stockholm and Lidingö and in the US at Catholic University of America, at Northern Virginia Community College and from 1983 to 1987 at George Washington University.[7][9] As of 2001, he teaches Swedish language and culture at the Foreign Service Institute.[9]

Works

Grahn's works include two symphonies, the second of which was commissioned by the

Washington Post have described his Through the Passage of Time for recorder (also 1982) as "clever and acrobatic",[12] his 1988 Celebration for solo marimba as "intricate and buoyant",[13] and his 1991 Three Short Pieces for String Quartet, originally composed for piano, as "seem[ingly] so idiomatic for strings, with their shimmering, overlapping lines and delicate interplay, that it is hard to imagine a piano being able to make much sense of them",[14] although his song cycle From Dusk to Dawn was described as "[having] some interesting things to say but did not stop when it had said them."[15]

He has also received commissions from Contemporary Music Forum, Levin School of Music, Musik i Södermanland and numerous individuals. [16]

Discography

Personal

Grahn was hospitalized for cancer treatment in 1986 and worked on a commissioned work there; he recovered the following year.[9]

Articles

References

  1. ^ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/ulf-grahn-obituary?id=51493446 Ulf Grahn Obituary on Legacy.com
  2. ^ Laura Kuhn and Dennis McIntire, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, January 1, 2001,
  3. ^ Online)
  4. Washington Post
  5. ^ a b c d Ulf Grahn, Nordic Authors, Project Runeberg, updated June 10, 2007, retrieved January 11, 2013.
  6. ^ Ulf Grahn at Society of Composers, retrieved January 11, 2013.
  7. ^ a b c d "Grahn, Ulf", in Nicolas Slonimsky
  8. ^
    ISBN 9781857431742, p. 294
    .
  9. ^ a b c d Stig Jacobsson, "Grahn, Ulf (1942)", Biografier, at Svensk Musik, updated by Grahn 2001, retrieved January 11, 2013 (in Swedish)
  10. OCLC 695930737, p. 122
    .
  11. ^ John Rockwell, "Concert: Washington Music Ensemble",The New York Times, February 4, 1983.
  12. ^ Joan Reinthaler, "Capital Composers", The Washington Post, June 11, 1991 (pay-per-view); Online).
  13. ^ Joseph McLellan, "Music", The Washington Post, April 21, 2004.
  14. ^ Joan Reinthaler, "Sunrise Quartet Shines on Local Works", The Washington Post, April 10, 2002 (pay-per-view); Online).
  15. ^ Joseph McLellan, "The Forum: With Melody Aforethought", The Washington Post, October 14, 1991 (pay-per-view); Online).
  16. ^ https://www.navonarecords.com/artists/ulf-grahn/
  17. ^ https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv5883/

External links

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