Victoria Borisova-Ollas

Victoria Borisova-Ollas is a major Swedish composer, who has over the years received a number of prestigious prizes, beginning with the Masterprize International Competition for Orchestral Composition where she came second in 1998, an Award of the Royal Swedish Academy for her Symphony No. 1 in 2005, an Award of the Swedish Music Publishers Association for The Ground Beneath Her Feet in 2008, the Hilding Rosenberg Prize of the Swedish Composers’ Association in 2009, and many others since. In 2011, Borisova-Ollas became the first woman ever to win the Swedish Christ Johnson Prize for Composition from the Swedish Royal Academy of Music. The prize was awarded for her clarinet concerto Golden Dances of the Pharaohs. Her critically acclaimed music is popular with audiences and is widely perform