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Stefan Thorsson is a Swedish composer based in Berlin, who works mainly with contemporary stage art, visual art and film. He finished his master studies in composition 2008 at the Academy of stage and music at the University of Gothenburg with the dissertation Dialogue Music – The dead angles of contemporary music. In the text as well as in his art, there’s a pronounced hope and will that contemporary music must be in a constant dialogue with reality to a greater extent; equal to the political, historical and philosophical tentacles of all other art forms. The dead angles hide different views of the surrounding environment that we are either incapable or not willing to see.  But in many occasions we just have to lift or turn our heads an inch. One possible way is to look backwards, to what we call history and tradition – to understand where we come from and to see where we stand now. 

Central to Thorsson’s process is an exploration both visually and musically of the potential for his work to be infiltrated by other genres and times. The works are often based on experimental, improvisational projects that include diverse media and pose existential questions about music as a contemporary art form. The musical drama has a central position in his work; partly due to a strong urge to create evocative metamorphoses of the human soul, but mainly due to a wish to describe the transformation that music must go through, over and over again – to fall, to be surprised, and to move on. 

 
Education

2003-2008 	Bachelor & Master in Composition at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, Sweden. 
2001-2003 	Gotland School of Composition in Visby, Sweden 
1996-2001	Freelance musician. Private piano and composition studies 
1994-1996	Music School (Jazz Department) at Skurup, Sweden
1993-1994	Jazz Diploma (Electric/Acoustic bass) at the New School of Music in New York, USA
1992-1993	Musicology at the University of Lund, Sweden