The Child and the Birth of the New Man is performed during the presentation day for new Swedish music organized by the Society of Swedish Composers. In the video is also an interview (in Swedish) with the composer.
Video from the performance at the Andrey Petrov Composition Competition in the St Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall where Riebe won third prize. The video is made by the russian filmmaker Leonid Toropov.
Since 2016, Riebe is the producer of Lund Contemporary, a festival for contemporary classical music organized by Lund University in collaboration with several regional music institutions.
Tidningen Tonsättaren som ges ut av FST (Föreningen svenska tonsättare) uppmärksammar på sidan 16 Riebes pris i kompositionstävlingen till Andrej Petrovs minne i september 2016.
Pressmeddelande om uruppförandet av Riebes Time Reflections på Lunds stadsorkesters jubileumskonsert 4 oktober 2015, med programkommentar till stycket.
David Riebe is mentioned in the annual report of the International Bureau of Swedish Composers (STIM), as one of the Swedish composers with most pieces premiered during 2013.
The first violinist of the London-based Kreutzer Quartet publish live recordings of Riebe's string quartet "Paradoxes" and the solo piece "A Cat, a Warrior, and a Tortoise" on his website.
David Riebe (born 1988) grew up in Torna Hällestad outside Lund in southern Sweden. At the age of five he started playing the violin and when he was nine he began to take lessons at Kulturskolan (school for music and arts) in Lund. His interest in composing has always been present and as a high school exam project he composed a violin concerto.
After high school, he studied two years at the conservatoire program of Kulturskolan (2007-2009), with composition and violin as main subjects. At the same time he studied musicology at Lund University.
Riebe received both his Bachelor's Degree and his Master's Degree in composition at the Malmö Academy of Music (Lund University) where he studied 2009-2015 after also having been accepted at the academies in Stockholm and Gothenburg. His teachers were Luca Francesconi, Rolf Martinsson, Staffan Storm, Kent Olofsson, among others. During autumn 2014 he studied with Michele Tadini and Philippe Hurel at Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Dance in Lyon. He also has a Bachelor's Degree in musicology from Lund University (2014).
Since 2015 Riebe is a member of FST, Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare (The Society of Swedish Composers).
Riebe's music has been performed by Malmö Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae and Västerås Sinfonietta. In 2022, he received a commission from the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, funded by the Swedish Art Council (Kulturrådet). Since several years he has been collaborating with Grammy-nominated British violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved as well as the Swedish pianist Fredrik Schützer, for whom he is currently working on a piano concerto, partly financed by the Grand Piano Grant of the Malmö Academy of Music. He has also composed music for Trio Poing (Norway), New European Ensemble (the Netherlands), Ensemble Nordlys (Denmark) and the London-based Kreutzer Quartet.
During his study years, Riebe's music was performed by the BBC Singers, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Jönköping Sinfonietta and the Swedish Wind Ensemble (Stockholms läns blåsarsymfoniker).
Riebe’s music has been selected twice to be included in the Presentation Days for New Swedish Orchestral Music organized by the Society of Swedish Composers, most recently in January 2022 when his piece The Child and the Birth of the New Man was performed by Västerås Sinfonietta with conductor B. Tommy Andersson at the Västerås Concert House. Previously, his string orchestra piece Drops of Stem Cells was performed at the 2017 Presentation Day.
In 2016 Riebe won Third Prize at the Andrey Petrov Composition Competition in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the orchestral piece Magma. The six selected finalist compositions were performed by St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra during a concert in St. Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall.
He also won the Second Prize at Uppsala Tonsättartävling (Uppsala Composition Competition) in March 2014 with his sinfonietta piece Geopoliticus Child, performed by Uppsala Chamber Orchestra.
Riebe has received the Working Grant of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee in 2016 and 2020, the STIM Grant (STIM-stipendium) and the composition scholarship of the Annik and Lars Leander foundation in 2015, the local grant of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2014 and the Culture Grant of the city of Lund in 2012.
He has also received commissions from Lunds Stadsorkester (Lund City Orchestra), Odeum Music Center at Lund University, and Akademiska Kapellet (Lund University Academic Orchestra), and he had a long collaboration with the Nordic Youth Orchestra which premiered his music in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Riebe has worked with conductors such as Stefan Solyom, Mika Eichenholz, Paul Mägi, Ruth Reinhardt, B. Tommy Andersson, Michael Bartosch, Leif Karlsson, Arkady Steinlucht, Christian Karlsen, Andreas Lönnqvist, Christoffer Nobin, Patrik Andersson and Cecilia Martin-Löf. Outside Sweden his music has been performed in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, Norway, Denmark, and Turkey.
Since 2016, Riebe is Artistic Director and Producer of Lund Contemporary, a festival for contemporary music in Lund with Lund University as main organizer.
CV:s in Swedish and English are available in PDF format.