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Johanna Andrea Tarrodi (* 9 October 1981 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish composer.

Life

Tarrodi grew up in Stockholm and attended Adolf Fredrik’s music class and the Music High School in Stockholm. She studied arranging and composition at the Academy of Music in Piteå 2000-2002 with Jan Sandström and 2003-2009 at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm with Pär Lindgren, Jesper Nordin and Marie Samuelsson among others.

Her music has been performed at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall during the BBC Proms, the Barbican Center, the Musikverein and the Berlin Philharmonie by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the BBC Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, the Spartanburg Philharmonic, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Västerås Sinfonietta, the Academic Ladies’ Choir Linnea, the Radio Choir and Eric Ericson’s Chamber Choir.

In 2010, Tarrodi won first prize in the Uppsala Composers’ Competition with her work Zephyros for orchestra. From 2011 to 2013 she was house editor at Swedish radio P2. In 2012 she was awarded the Music Publisher’s Prize in the category Art Music Prize of the Year – Chamber Music/Small Ensemble for her work Empíreo. In 2013-2014 she was composer profile of the Västerås Sinfonietta. In 2018 she was again awarded the Music Publisher Prize for the piano concerto Stellar Clouds.

In 2018, she was awarded a Grammy in the Classical of the Year category for the CD Tarrodi String Quartets with the Dahlkvist Quartet.

In 2020, Tarrodi became the first Swedish composer whose work was premiered at the Last Night of the Proms. The newly composed piece Solus was premiered two months after it was commissioned by the BBC.

Andrea Tarrodi is a member of the KVAST and was elected to the Swedish Composers’ Association in 2009. Tarrodi has also received grants from the Royal Academy of Music, the Arts Council, Stim and the Norwegian Cultural Council.

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