Frid & Frid SWEDEN
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Karl Frid & Pär Frid (FRID & FRID)
Brothers Karl and Pär Frid runs the boutique production studio Frid & Frid in Stockholm and strive to work on the highest level with artist collaborations across disciplines. They have scored several features and tv-series of different genres and have received several awards and nominations. Recent works include the music for Swedish drama features and television series such as Allt och Eva (All and Eva), Pleasure and Sommaren 85 (Dreaming of England). Upcoming premieres include the tv-series A Life’s Worth and currently they are working on the feature Je m’appelle Agneta (2025) for Netflix by Johanna Runevad. With varied backgrounds in composing, performing, thinking and producing Frid & Frid form a unique team, specializing in tailor-made cutting-edge music production, as well as audio-visual story telling resulting in productions such as documentaries, commercials and IP development. Karl and Pär are members of The European Film Academy. Karl Frid Karl Frid has studied classical music at the Royal College of Music in London, Afro-Cuban music at the CNSEA in Havana, Cuba and Afro-American music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. His vast knowledge in music ranges from classical and jazz to Latin, hip-hop and pop music, and he's equally familiar in writing for orchestras as well as for smaller ensembles and electronics. He is maybe most well known for the score of feature Pleasure (2021) by Ninja Thyberg, which he won the Crystal Pine Award for Best Feature at the International Sound and Film Music Festival as well as recieving an nomination for "Discovery of the Year" at the World Soundtrack Awards. His latest work for film is the Belgian feature Skiff (2025) by Cecilia Verheyden. Pär Frid With a background as a classical composer, Pär tends to transcend the traditional boundaries between musical genres, art forms, and intellectual tasks. Besides focusing on his role as a composer, Pär also lends his creativity and heart to IP development and music business development in various roles. Since 2023, Pär has served as a board member of SKAP and a delegate at ECSA (European Composer & Songwriter Alliance). Since 2024 also serves as a board member of STIM. Early in his career, Pär studied in Gothenburg, CNMAT UC Berkeley, and in Paris at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse and the research institute IRCAM (Centre Georges Pompidou) with full scholarships from the French State and the Swedish Royal Academy of Music in 2003-04. Since then, his music has been performed worldwide. Today, Pär's musical catalog includes around 400 works, continually pushing musical, aesthetic, and technical boundaries. One of Pär's pieces, "Déjà vu, over and over again," featured on the album "Unheard of Again" from Phono Suecia, won a Swedish Grammy Award in 2010. His latest work, Pär's first symphony, utilizes sophisticated spectral tracking methods of acoustic signals derived from endangered bird songs. This symphony will be part of a new album featuring works commissioned by conductor Christian Karlsen for symphony orchestra. |