Andrea Tarrodi

Swedish contemporary classical composer

Swedish composer, born October 9, 1981 in Stockholm. She went to school in Adolf Fredrik's music classes and Stockholm's music high school. She studied arrangement and composition at the Academy of Music in Piteå 2000–2002 for Jan Sandström and then 2003–2009 at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm for, among others, Pär Lindgren, Jesper Nordin and Marie Samuelsson. Her music has been performed on stages such as the Royal Albert Hall during the BBC Proms, Barbican Center, Musikverein and Berliner Philharmonie by, among others, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, BBC Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, Spartanburg Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony Orchestra , The Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta, the academic women's choir Linnea, the Radio Choir and Eric Ericson's Chamber Choir. In 2010, Tarrodi won first prize in the Uppsala Composers' Competition with his work Zephyros for orchestra. In 2011–2013, she was a house presenter on Swedish Radio P2. In 2012, she was awarded the Music Publishers' Prize in the category Art Music Prize of the Year - chamber music / small ensemble for her work Empíreo. In 2013–2014, she was Västerås Sinfonietta's Composer profile. In 2018, she was again awarded the Music Publishers' Prize for the Piano Concerto Stellar Clouds. In 2018, she was awarded a Grammy in the Classical of the Year category for the CD Tarrodi String Quartets with the Dahlkvist Quartet. In 2020, Tarrodi became the first Swedish female composer to have her work premiered at Last Night of the Proms. The newly composed piece Solus premiered two months after the order was received from the BBC. Andrea Tarrodi is a member of KVAST and was elected in 2009 to the Association of Swedish Composers. Tarrodi has also received scholarships from the Royal Academy of Music, the Arts Council, STIM and the Swedish Council for Culture.