Madeleine Isaksson

Madeleine Isaksson is a Swedish/French composer.

Biography

Madeleine Isaksson studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm from 1979 to 1987. She received a diploma as a piano and ensemble teacher after studying under Gunnar Hallhagen, and then studied composition under teachers including Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström, Pär Lindgren, Arne Mellnäs, and Bo Wallner. In 1987 she lived in Amsterdam for a year of studies with the composer Louis Andriessen. Meetings with composers at different composition courses in Europe, Brian Ferneyhough, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman and Emmanuel Nunes, have all contributed to Isaksson’s development as a composer. In the early 1990s, she moved to France, where she lives and works near Paris.

Isaksson has composed for solo, duo, trio, quartet, ensemble, orchestra and vocal music.

Chaconne for piano
7 formade frön for piano
Tång for english horn, basson, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, harp, harpsichord, cello and double bass
Capriola for baritone saxophone and trombone
Stråkvåg for string quartet
Tjärnöga – Ö blå for horn solo
färde for violin and open grand piano
Som om for alto flute, bass clarinet, viola, cello, double bass and percussion
Tillstånd - Avstånd for 16 musicians
inné for flute, oboe, saxophone, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass
Fästen o fall for chamber orchestra
Andelek for saxophone quartet
Ici est ailleurs for flute, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass
Rooms for alto flute, bass clarinet, cello and percussion
Ambo for alto flute and violin
Axis for violin and percussion
Failles for trombone, recorder and cello
Fibres for flute, viola and 10-stringed guitar
Îlots for orchestra
Les sept vallées for recorder solo
Infra for violin duo
Sondes for bass flute/alto flute, English horn/oboe, alto saxophone, violin, cello, piano and percussion
Far... for alto guitar and electronics
Flux for brass quintet
Isär for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion
Vide supra for violin duo
Vågkammar for piano left hand
In quarto for flute quartet
Bridges for brass and percussion
Ljusrymd for orchestra
Traces for string trio
Springkällor for improvising pianist and 7 instruments
Luftstegen for violin, piano and percussion

Three songs for soprano, clarinet and piano, text by Sten Hagliden
#"Vara sin formel trogen"
#"Någon faller mitt liv i talet"
#"Sången om ljung"
Löp for soprano, mezzo-soprano, accordion and 5 percussions, text by the composer
In Between for mezzo-soprano and electric guitar
Å svävare for soprano, mezzo, baritone, viola and cello
#"Wir sehen dich", text by Paul Celan
#"Wie soll ich", text by Rainer Maria Rilke and Juan dela Cruz
#"Oh cauterio suave", text by Juan dela Cruz and Susanne Marten
#"Cuan manso y amoroso", text by Juan dela Cruz
#"Doch alles was uns", text by Rainer Maria Rilke & Susanne Marten
#"Taktavla", text by Katarina Frostenson
#"Taktavla", text by Katarina Frostenson
Blad över blad / Feuille sur feuille for soprano, mezzo and cello with text by the composer
Ciels for six solo voices with text by Gérard Haller
Dans l'air for 2 sopranos and mezzo-soprano with text from Météoriques by Gérard Haller
Terre de l'absence for six soloist voices: soprano, mezzo-soprano, alt, tenor, baritone and bass with text by Adonis in French translation by Anne Wade Minkowski
Hemligheten for countertenor, recorder, baroque violin, viol and theorbo, text by Tomas Tranströmer
Várije for children's opera choir and children's yoik choir