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Om David Riebe

David Riebe (born 1988) is a composer from Lund, Sweden. His list of works spans over most of the genres of contemporary classical music, with over ten symphonic works, a lot of chamber music, solo pieces and electroacoustic music. Riebe has a Master’s degree in Composition from the Malmö Academy of Music at Lund University where he studied with professors Luca Francesconi, Rolf Martinsson, Kent Olofsson and Staffan Storm, among others. He has also studied at Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Dance (CNSMD) in Lyon, France, with professors Philippe Hurel and Michele Tadini.

In 2015, he was elected a member of the Society of Swedish Composers (FST).

Riebe’s music has been performed by many orchestras, including Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta, Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, Jönköping Sinfonietta, Musica Vitae and Swedish Wind Ensemble. He has also composed music for chamber ensembles such as Stockholm Saxophone Quartet (SE), Trio Poing (NO), Kreutzer Quartet (UK), Ensemble Nordlys (DK) and New European Ensemble (NL). In addition, as a project at the Malmö Academy of Music, he composed a piece for the BBC Singers which was recorded at Maida Vale Studios in London.

Riebe has worked with numerous musicians from both Sweden and abroad, including Grammy nominated British violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved, and he has collaborated with internationally acclaimed conductors such as Mika Eichenholz, Ruth Reinhardt, Stefan Solyom, Arkady Steinlucht, Paul Mägi, B. Tommy Andresson and Michael Bartosch. Outside Sweden, his music has been performed in the United States, UK, France, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Croatia and Turkey.
 

Riebe won Third Prize at the Andrey Petrov Composition Competition in Saint Petersburgin 2016, with the orchestral piece "Magma" which was performed at a concert in St. Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall. With his sinfonietta piece "Geopoliticus Child", Riebe won the second prize at Uppsala Tonsättartävling (Uppsala Composition Competition) in 2014.

Riebe’s music has been selected twice to be included in the Presentation Days for New Swedish Orchestral Music organized by the Society of Swedish Composers, most recently in 2022 when his piece "The Child and the Birth of the New Man" was performed by Västerås Sinfonietta. At the 2017 Presentation Day, his string orchestra piece "Drops of Stem Cells" was performed by Musica Vitae.

He has also worked with several local semi-professional, amateur and youth orchestras, with commissions from for example Lunds Stadsorkester, Odeum Music Center at Lund University, and Akademiska Kapellet (Lund University Academic Orchestra), and a long collaboration with the Nordic Youth Orchestra which premiered his music in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Riebe has received the working grant of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee twice, the STIM Grant (STIM-stipendium) twice, the composition scholarship of the Annik and Lars Leander foundation, the local scholarship of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and the Culture Grant of the City of Lund.

Since 2016, Riebe is Artistic Director of Lund Contemporary, a festival for contemporary music with Lund University as main organizer. The festival has taken place five times: in 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025. A sixth edition is planned for February 2027. The festival has been a big audience success, with 1350-1700 visitors each time, and has offered a varied program with local musicians as well as more distant guests.

Much of Riebe's production is available for listening on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/davidriebe

Riebe's website: http://riebe.se/