2003
The Swedish Music Publishers award
The Daughter of the Voice, the most significant work of the year
THE COMPOSER
Tommie Haglund is considered to be one of the most interesting Swedish composers of his generation. His music has been described as “visions from other worlds”.
Erik Wallrup, reviewer at svd
Tommie Haglund was born in Kalmar 1959, and started to compose at the age of eleven.
Having studied the classical guitar in London and at the Royal Academy of Music in Århus Danmark, he then returned to composition, taking private lessons with Dr. Eric Fenby, professor at The Royal Academy in London and amanuensis to Frederick Delius, and with the Swedish composer Sven-Eric Johansson in Göteborg.
Haglund’s breakthrough came in 1988 with Intensio Animi, premiered at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, commissioned by the Swedenborg Society to celebrate the Swedish theosophist Emanuel Swedenborg’s 300th anniversary. Since then Haglund has committed his life to composing and commissions have followed continuously, amongst others from the Swedish Radio with a portrait in Berwaldhallen featuring his music, and to King Carl XVI Gustaf’s 50th anniversary.
2004
Halland Academy Award
Recognition for Haglund’s musical work
2010
The Golden Feather
From the newspaper Barometern
2011
The West Swedish Cultural Foundation Award
For valuable contributions to West Swedish cultural life
2014
The Grand Christ Johnson Prize
For Flaminis Aura for cello and orchestra
2015
Halmstad Municipality Honorary Award
Significant contributions to Swedish music
2017
Honorary Award for La Rosa Profunda
The endless rose, composed for Halmstad’s 700th anniversary
REVIEWS
Haglund is one of Sweden’s most individual composers with a philosophically founded hyper sensitive and colourful musical language that can make the listener feel an almost meditative intensification.
Tony Lundman, Editor at Stockholm Concert Hall
Flaminis Aura - BIS CD review: This is the kind of music that makes you believe there is a future and relevance for contemporary music. Unique and powerful music, stunningly played and recorded.
Nick Barnard, Music Web International
HIGHLIGHTS
New piece by Tommie Haglund and Per Gessle released
Per Gessle and Tommie Haglund create music together. On 11 March 2022 their piece, Making something out of nothing, is released. A taster in this clip! The piece will be premiered at the Tommie Haglund Festival in Halmstad in April.
South American guest performance in Halmstad, Falkenberg, Malmö and Linköping
All the way from Bogotá in Colombia, the guest Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá comes to Sweden in April. The orchestra is considered one of South America’s finest and is conducted by Swedish conductor Joachim Gustafsson, its chief conductor since 2021.
The Infinity of the Moment, the book about Tommie Haglund, will be launched in 2021
The fact that a Swedish composer devotes an interview book is one of the exceptions. It happened when Leif Aare published his book about Tommie Haglund’s musical life.