BACKGROUND TO…

Rolf Martinsson (b1956)

The Swedish composer’s international breakthrough came with the 1999 premiere of his trumpet concerto Bridge, composed for Håkan Hardenberger. Martinsson has written for leading solo performers including Martin Fröst, Anne Sofie von Otter and Christian Lindberg. Since 2011 he has enjoyed a particularly close association with the soprano Lisa Larsson, for whom he devised a soprano version of Orchestral Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson (originally written for mezzo-soprano): Larsson has performed Martinsson’s music at more than a hundred concerts to date.