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Contact: kim.hedas [at] gmail.com

Kim Hedås is a composer, trained at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Her music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles such as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of NorrlandsOperan, Norrbotten NEO, Uppsala Kammarsolister, Gageego!, pearls before swine experience, Kroumata, VOX, DalaSinfoniettan, and the Gothenburg Opera. Hedås list of works contains chamber music, orchestral music, choral music, theatre music and electro acoustic music. She collaborates regularly with other artists in projects combining music with theatre, art and architecture. Hedås has been composer-in-residence for the Swedish Radio P2 and has also been appointed as recipient of several grants and prizes. In recent years, her music has been performed at, among others, Berwaldhallen, Konserthuset i Stockholm, Musikaliska, Göteborgs Konserthus, Moderna museet, Kulturhuset, Färgfabriken, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Kivik Art Centre, Teater Galeasen, Audiorama, and the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. In September 2013, Kim Hedås completed her PhD at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg with the dissertation Linjer. Musikens rörelser – komposition i förändring (Lines: Music moving – composition changing).

Kim Hedås is a Professor in Composition at KMH, Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm (Royal College of Music, Stockholm).