Hans-Ola Ericsson |
8-10.05.2025

Hans-Ola Ericsson was born in Stockholm in 1958. Composer, organist, pedagogue and visual artist. He studied music in Stockholm and Freiburg and deepened his studies in the United States and Venice. Hans-Ola Ericsson has given concerts throughout Europe, Japan, South Korea, China, Canada and the USA. His art of interpretation is documented in numerous recordings. Mention should be made of an internationally acclaimed recording of Olivier Messiaen's organ works.

In 1989, he was appointed professor at the Academy of Music in Piteå. In the summer of 1990, he taught at the summer courses in Darmstadt and was awarded the prestigious Kranichsteiner Musikpreis.

He has collaborated with several leading composers in the interpretation of their organ works, such as John Cage, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen and Bengt Hambraeus.

Hans-Ola Ericsson is also often in demand as an expert in organ issues, as a jury member in international organ competitions, and as a guest teacher at a large number of universities and conservatories.

He has held guest professorships at the conservatories of Copenhagen, Helsinki and Amsterdam, and lectured and given concerts at a large number of leading organ festivals and academic symposia around the world, stubbornly defending the quality and demands of new art music.

In 1996, he was appointed permanent visiting professor at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen.

He was awarded the Swedish Composers' Association's Interpretation Prize in 1999 and in 2000 he was elected a member of the Academy of Music.

Hans-Ola Ericsson was from 2001 to 2006 "Principal guest organist" for the organ festival in Lahti, Finland. From 2006 to 2011 he was a member of the artistic council for the organ festival in Bodø, Norway.

In 2011, he was appointed Professor at the Schulich School of Music and University Organist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, a position he left in December 2020.

From 2019 until 2023 Hans-Ola Ericsson acted as honorary professor at the South Danish Music Conservatory (SDMK) in Esbjerg. In 2020, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, FRCCO (Honoris causa)

Furthermore, from 2021 until 2024 he acted as Visiting Professor at the Hochschule für Katholische Kirchenmusik & Musikpädagogik in Regensburg, Germany.