Henrik Lörstad SWEDEN
Henrik is nominated for the 2025 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award for his score in "Who are you, Mamma Mu?".
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​Henrik Lörstad acquired a classical music education from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in the nineties, but had his musical awakening with punk in the seventies, and loves to mix these worlds. He was born 1964 in Lund, raised in Italy and is currently based in Stockholm.


His recent projects include mainly animated films for children. The films that have reached the largest crowd are undoubtedly the Swedish household bear, Bamse, all with full symphony orchestra scores. The Bamsefilms have all been huge box office successes despite corona and have drawn sensational amounts of visitors to the movies. The music to the second movie Bamse and the witch´s daughter, was performed live with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra playing to the film, and a potpourri from the first Bamsefilm was performed in Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. Upcoming events coming April are two concerts with Norrköping symphony orchestra performing the music along with the same film. Henrik is currently composing the score to the sixth Bamsefilm, which apart from the cinemas also will be performed live at the Malmö concert hall during next year.


Another Swedish children’s icon that Henrik has been working with is Mamma moo. The second Mamma moo feature movie, Who are you, Mamma moo (nominated for the Harpa award 2025), opened on the cinemas last year and the music got nominated for best score at the Guldbaggegala 2024. 


Directors working with Henrik describe his style as melodious with powerful and poignant tunes and a vein of melancholia. It works well for children’s films, but also for drama and thrillers with stories containing supernatural elements. For instance, the Swedish Christmas Calendar, The Greveholm Castle Mystery, and creepy thriller Mannen under trappan.


Henrik has also composed music for a large number of stage plays during the years, working mainly with experimental groups such as Darling Desperados and Teater Tribunalen, but also within institutions such as Dramaten and main theatre halls of both Stockholm and Uppsala.