Peter Bäckström
Position
Associate Professor
Studies
Voice
Area
Musical drama
Department
Education
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Peter Bäckström trained as an opera director at Malmö Stadsteater (1983-86). Musicological studies at Lund University and private studies in conducting, voice and viola.
Teaching
Peter has been employed as a senior associate professor at RDAM since 2000, as well as director at the Opera Academy from 1994-2001.
Artistic practice
Peter has worked as an opera director and educator in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands since 1986. Theatre manager at various Swedish ensembles 1986-1996. Dramatist and librettist.
Commissioned works: (plays/whole-evening/Sweden)
- Äventyrens Ö (2008)
- Hemligheternas Tid (2009)
- Ödets Makt (2010)
- Marinmysteriet (2010)
- I sista sekunden (2011)
- Sanningens Ögonblick (2018)
- Harry Swanson (working title, 2020)
- Libretto: (Én akt/ Norge)
- Mellemrom (2015)
- Elskede (2017)
Pedagogical development (PUV)
- Kunstnerisk proces (Artistic Process)- Peter Bäckström and Erik Karlberg - 2018/19 & 2019/20
- Kunstnerisk proces – roller og identitet (Artistic Process – roles and identity) - Peter Bäckström and Erik Karlberg - 2020/21
- Master class in musical drama & dramaturgy for singers, Lucca, Tuscany, from 2013
- Lecture on Artistic Process at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm 2018
- Appointed Rector of Halmstad Culture School from May 2021.
Moderator in musical drama at the Danish academies of music, 2009-2016
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