The story does, however, begin quite unglamorous. At age nine, in a suburb of Stockholm, Peter Friis Johansson enrolls in free of cost public music school and the rise of his musical abilities starts with Inger Flyckt as his teacher. When he later studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm his teachers are Anders Kilström and Mats Widlund, and outside of the academical world, he further develops his musicality with Konstantin Bogino as his mentor.
As a student, Mr. Friis Johansson’s career is flourishing. He embarks on several Scandinavian tours and, along with Jakob Koranyi, records a CD that is later crowned album of the year by magazine MusicWeb International. He is discovered by Swedish Radio who makes him their artist in residence and embarks on a tour of Europe with clarinetist Emil Jonason, performing concerts in, among others venues, the Musikverein and the Concertgebouw.
But in the summer of 2012, disaster strikes. Peter’s career is devastated by an injury in a finger and suddenly everything is different. For a year he performs concerts with nine functioning fingers and when the injury is finally fully healed, we meet a changed artist and person. Peter makes his international comeback at the ‘Alaska International Piano-e-Competition 2014’. The competition is a triumphant success for Peter who wins the first prize, gold medal and takes his first step in his US career.
Mr. Friis Johansson is currently performing cycles of Franz Schubert’s eleven completed piano sonatas, he will also record the cycle of sonatas during the coming years. He has premiered concerti by Sven-David Sandström and Andrea Tarrodi with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2020, he completed and premiered the piano concerto by Laura Netzel with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, and in 2023 his completition of Ludvig Norman’s piano concerto was premiered with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the command of Christian Reif.
In addition to his solo career, Peter is a passionate chamber musician who has engaged in long-term projects with, among others, cellists Andreas Brantelid and Jakob Koranyi. With Emil Jonason, he forms the duo Emil&Peter, whose current project ‘Worst of Emil&Peter’ seamlessly blends music with acting and the spoken word. The same idea is present in Peter’s solo project ‘The Final Frontier’, a concert with a science fiction theme that through the use of modern technology updates the piano recital to an art form created for modern day society.
Peter is also active as an entrepreneur and as a teacher. In the summer of 2017 he, together with cellist Jakob Koranyi, founded Fairplay Chamber Music (previously known as Järna Festival Academy). During 2015-2020, he taught at the Academy of Music in Västerås and has previously given lectures in the history of ideas and rhetoric organized by the Academy of Music in Ingesund. He regularly gives master classes at music conservatories in Sweden and abroad.
Frontside Chamber Music Association has existed since 2019 and is largely driven by volunteer efforts, but we are highly dependent on additional financial sponsors and fundings. All contributions are used to engage fantastic musicians, rents of venues and all other things that make the festival a magical experience.
If you are interested in chamber music that goes beyond the ordinary, you should become a member! As a member, you are invited to the association’s annual meeting and participate in electing the board. You can also suggest activities for the association, thereby influencing future festivals and other events we organize. You also have the opportunity to volunteer during the festival, allowing you to enjoy wonderful chamber music without paying an entrance fee.
How do I become a member and support Frontside? Submit your information in the form below and pay the membership fee, and we will register you as a member immediately. Please also indicate which chamber music you love the most. Together with your personal information, this helps us better understand who our members are. How we handle your information can be read under the GDPR section.
You renew your membership every fall term – we’ll remind you! Alternatively, you can purchase a lifetime membership and thus become a permanent member with a one-time fee.
If you join as a new member in the spring, your payment also covers the following year’s membership.
How do I do it and what does it cost? You can pay the membership fee to Bankgiro 5318-7969 or via Swish 123 356 63 95. Always include your name and, if paying via bankgiro, your mobile number.
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For requests, feedback, and additional information, fill in your message in the form at the bottom or send an email to info@frontside-festival.se
The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, came into force within the EU on May 25, 2018.
How does Frontside handle its membership register? In our membership register, we store your name, address details, email address, phone number, and birth year. If you leave the association, we will retain your information for a maximum of seven (7) years before deleting it.
Who has access to my information? We register your details digitally in our membership register. Only you (first party) and individuals with trusted roles in the association (second party) have access to your information. No information is shared with third parties.
You can request to see what information we have collected about you at any time.
Validity? By becoming a member of the association, you enter into an agreement regarding which information about you can be stored with us and who has access to this information, as described above. This agreement is valid indefinitely, as long as you are a member of the Frontside Chamber Music Association.
Do I have the right to have my information deleted? According to GDPR, you have the right to have your information deleted, but you will also lose your membership in the association. To request this, send an email to info@frontside-festival.se and ask for your stored information to be deleted.
