Prizes in composition competitions
Since 2016, Riebe is Artistic Director and Producer of Lund Contemporary, a festival for contemporary music in Lund, with Lund University as main organizer. The festival has taken place twice; first in 2017 and then in 2019. A new edition is planned for February 2021. Read more on the Lund Contemporary homepage.
Riebe’s piece The Child and the Birth of the New Man has been selected to be performed by Västerås Sinfonietta at the Presentation Day for New Swedish Orchestral Music organized by the Society of Swedish Composers in November 2020. Music by Riebe has previously been performed at the 2017 Presentation Day (picture).
© David Riebe
On September 19, 2019, Grammy nominated British violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved premiered Riebe's new solo violin composition Coffee by the Plague Pit, inspired by a painting made by Sheppard Skærved himself (see picture below). The painting shows a few people at Charterhouse Square in London, a place which was the site of the largest plague pit in the city during the Black Death. The concert took place at the chapel of The Charterhouse, just next to the square.