Catharina Backman

Sweden, b. 1961.

Musikhögskolan i Malmö for the degree of postgraduate diploma in composition 1993-2000.

Two works during education: Aviatris (1998) for trumpet and loudspeakers, Flaps & Clatterings (1999) for accordion and loudspeakers.

I work as a composer, accordionist and vaudeville artist. Most of my commissions are operas and vocal music. I play accordion in Katzen Kapell, an electric-acoustic-notated-improvised- music cross-over group.

As a vaudeville artist I play original music in a duo with composer Carin Blom on a glass-harp and other objects of glass.

I am a member of the recently formed group ISM together with composers and musicians Paulina Sundin, Carin Bartosch, Mikael Marin and Claudia Müller. We mix sound art with acoustic instruments and voices. Our latest project is Modern romantik. First performance in September 2006.