era article_title name birth_date
contemporary albert schnelzer
 albert schnelzer 03 june 1972
albert schnelzer

albert schnelzer -lrb- born june 3 , 1972 , värmland -rrb- is a swedish composer .
as a youth , schnelzer was a keyboard player in a rock band .
he later became a student at the malmö academy of music from 1994 to 2000 .
his teachers in sweden included sven-david sandström and rolf martinsson , and he was a conducting pupil of gunnar staern and lars jensen .
in the uk , schnelzer studied music at the royal college of music , where his teachers included julian anderson .
he continued his conducting studies with john carewe .
in 1998 , schnelzer won the `` composer of tomorrow '' competition with the orchestral work `` erupto '' .
he joined the society of swedish composers in 2001 .
he became better known outside of sweden with his piano trio `` predatory dances '' , composed on commission from radio france and premiered at the présence festival in 2004 .
