Patric Simmerud

Patric Simmerud was born on October 13, 1963, in Stockholm. He has studied at the Kapellsberg Music School in Härnösand and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, as well as at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris and Fondazione Accademia Chigiana (Siena, Italy). A list of his teachers includes Olov Franzén, Peter Lyne, Anders Nilsson, Lars-Erik Rosell, Lars Ekström, Daniel Börtz, Sven-David Sandström, Magnus Lindberg, Pär Lindgren, Bill Brunson, Jaques Charpentier (Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris) and Ennio Morricone (Fondazione Accademia Chigiana, Siena). He is currently a freelance composer.

Notable in his production, which includes solo works, orchestral pieces and electroacoustic works, are "Il dolce far niente" for solo piano (1993); "AN" for wind ensemble (1994); "Frameworks" for sinfonietta (1997); "Fluctuations" for orchestra (1998); "Roma" for vibraphone, marimba and tape (1998); "Villes englouties" for baritone and orchestra, with texts by Shakespeare (2000); "De-housing" for saxophone quartet (2001); "Soon - Kilroy, go home" for percussion trio (2005) and "De ljudlösa" for 6-part female choir a cappella (2005).

Since 1993, Patric Simmerud has taken part in contemporary music festivals in Europe as well as in USA, and his works have been performed in concert halls all over the world.

Among the better known ensembles Simmerud has worked with are the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, the Chamber Ensemble Sonanza, Stockholm Symphonic Wind Orchestra, Stockholm Transport Band, the Emory Wind Ensemble (Atlanta, Ga, USA), The Peärls Before Swïne Experience, Hässlö Saxophone Quartet, The North/South Consonance Ensemble (New York), Zagreb Saxophone Quartet (Croatia), The Raschèr Saxophone Quartet (USA), Ensemble Theater am Gleis (Switzerland), Sångsällskapet Orphei Drängar [OD], Trio Tribukait/Pettersson/Berg, Trio Spectra and the worlds most talented percussionist Mika Takehara.

2015

• Voop - violin duo & computer
• Kaiso - percussion & electronics

2014

• Funny Money - guitar duo

2013

• Vassala - marimba & electronics

2012

• Absence - en kammaropera - voice & electronics
• Tiden går inte längre - radiophonic
• Transients, formants and gestures - solo percussion & electronics

2011

• Wish Tree - radiophonic
• The fight of humblebee jr - flute, violin, cello, piano & DVD
• Requiem - flute, violin, cello & piano

2010

• libera me; orchestral manouevres in the dark - orchestra

2009

• A momentary lapse of reason - solo piano

2008

• Radio Fylkingen - radiophonic
• ...to remember the still unseen days - percussion duo

2007

• WO - solo percussion & electronics

2006

• Urban Futures 2.0 - musik till ett bildspel beställt av Stockholms Stad, Regeringskansliet och EU-kommissionen till EU-konferensen "Urban Futures 2.0"
• I need a drink (or a bath) - acoustic guitar & electronics

2005

• Soon [Kilroy, go home] - percussion trio
• De ljudlösa - 6 part female choir á cappella
• WIP - alto flute, percussion & piano
• Hokahey - solo percussion

2004

• Over Yonder - oboe & piano
• Play it again, Helen - oboe & piano

2003

• ...like rain on water - tubular bells
• Psalm 210 - mezzo & string quartet (arr)

2001

• De-housing - saxophone quartet

2000

• Villes englouties / the song of the individual - baryton & orchestra
• Veni, vidi, vici - male choir

1998

• Fluctuations - orchestra
• Nemesis divina - saxophone quartet
• Roma - marimba, vibraphone & electronics

1997

• Frameworks - chamber ensemble
• Soli - baritone, sopran saxophone & tape

1996

• Excerpts - tape
• Pärlor från svin - flute, violin, violoncello & pianoforte

1994

• AN - wind orchestra

1993

• Il dolce far niente - pianoforte

1992

• Alaba; blues for a hip king - mezzo & orchestra
• Equale / Det är inte lett att vara est, men det är balt - saxophone quartet

1991

• Vattene in convento - violin solo, percussion, string orchestra & choir
• Bon, c'est bien! - flute & pianoforte

1990

• Dissidents - French horn quartet

1989

• Nedtecknat - baritone & string quintet
• Attacca - two violas & double bass
• Ad acta - clarinet & pianoforte
• Lamento - alto saxophone