Maria Lithell Flyg
Composer of contemporary music and singer from Stockholm, Sweden. Took her masters degree in composition at the Royal Music High School in Stockholm in 2014.
Has been working as a singer at the Royal Opera Choir in Stockholm for 11 years before she started her studies in composition.
She was commissioned to write a piece for the Swedish Radio P2/Berwaldhallen in august 2014 to the Baltic Sea Festival in commemoration of Swedish composer Alice Tegnér, 150th anniversary.
She was also one of the finalists in the 2015 Elaine Lebendom Memorial Award, Detroite Symphony Orchestra, with an orchestral piece origianally written for Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in 2014.
During the last five years she has written pieces for the Swedish Radio Choir, wind orchestra Stockholms Läns Blåsarsymfoniker, string orchestra Musica Vitae, the German chamber music ensemble recherche. She has also written musical drama and had a chamber opera put up at the Stockholm Folkoperan during spring 2014. On top of that she has written several pieces for mixed choir, chamber music to for example Stockholm Saxophone quartet and DuoGelland.
Works for symphonic band
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Hunting (2011)