Jan Sandström

Swedish composer Jan Sandström (born 1954).
Different lines of composing co-exist in Sandström’s music. Minimalism, Eastern philosophy as well as the world of serialism were early influences on his music. For many years Sandström also worked at developing the form of overtone harmony that is known as spectral analysis. In more music theatrical pieces as Don Quixote and the opera Macbeth2 (premiered at the GothenburgOpera in spring 2001), he means to let the whole world outside in on stage. As pictured in the Motorbike Concerto, Sandström and his music is constantly on the move aiming to explore whatever aspect of life and music takes his fancy: ‘Every morning when I wake up, I want to be surprised by whatever I might think up today!’