Education
She has attended the Sjövik folk university in Dalecarlia, Sweden, as well as the Institute for Musicology at the University of Uppsala.
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Frida Matsdotter
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In 1998 she was awarded the Gunnar Wennerberg Travel Scholarship, which enabled her to study composition and improvisation in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America, under the guidance of, among others, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeely, Kenny Werner, Rufus Reid, Dave Liebman and Jane Ira Bloom. Frida Matsdotter has also been awarded the Scholarship for Culture by Norrtälje community (1998), SAMI"s scholarship for development of repertoire (1999), the Scholarship for Composition by the Swedish Board of Artists (2000, 2002 and 2003), Scholarship for a Commission by the same authority (2002) and the Culture Scholarship of the Swedish Builders" Union (2003). In 2000 she released her Civil Defense Tivoli (Amusement park) on Phono Suecia, the label of Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå. The material is her own, though she did get some help with the translation into Icelandic (!) for one of the tracks.
On the cover of the Civil Defense January Strand says: Frida Matsdotter"s music and lyrics draw together all the magical and giddy experiences of an amusement park and this world now lies open for all listeners to discover and explore.
Frida grew up on the island of Björkö in the northern part of the Stockholm archipelago.
