Marie Bejstam is a driven culture entrepreneur and choir leader. She received her Master’s of Fine Arts in Music Education and choral conducting at the College of Music in Örebro, Sweden. She works as a pedagogue, lecturer, entrepreneur, producer and conductor within the school system, through her own choirs, for the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm as well as within the private sector for churches, TV-productions, and choirs within Sweden, etc.
www.mariemusik.com
Marie is also CEO and one of the two founders of a private culture house in the heart of Stockholm called Kulturfyren (the Culture Lighthouse). Kulturfyren provides a venue and a meeting place for cultural professionals and amateurs, adults and children, nationally and internationally within all fields of culture in a variety projects, but with a special heart for choral culture.
www.kulturfyren.se
Marie leads six different choirs and is a founder of the well-respected “the Spektrum choirs” for children and youth in the diverse suburb of Stockholm, Botkyrka. The Spektrum choirs who works with choral concerts and musicals also receive commissions from amongst others, clients such as the Royal family, the Polar Prize, the Sweden Winds Orchestra, the famous outdoor museum Skansen, and a variety of awards ceremonies.
www.spektrumkorerna.se
Marie has for her social and international dedication and engagements in combination with her qualifications within children’s choral music been awarded “Children- and youth choir leader of the year 2009” by the Swedish national organization Ungikör (Young in choir), during the Eric Ericson Day in the concert hall Berwaldhallen.
“As working with children and choral music is the best thing I know, and since doing this in multicultural environments with influences from all over the world, it is a great honor, pleasure and true joy for me to be invited to Thessaloniki to make music together with 300 Greek children and musicians. I am so thankful and I hope it will be to your joy, when I contribute with choral music with Swedish tune and atmosphere.”