Henrik Strindberg

Swedish composer of contemporary music, born 28 March 1954.

He is one of the founding members of prog-rock band Ragnarök and has been playing in the band since the seventies.

He studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 1980–87 for Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström, among others. He has also participated in a summer course led by Iannis Xenakis in Delphi in 1985.

Strindberg teaches composition at the Gotland School of Music Composition and Södra Latins gymnasium and is the initiator of Sound of Stockholm, Stockholm's only festival for contemporary art music.

Strindberg was inducted into the Swedish Society of Composers in 1987 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2007.

He is the nephew's son of the North Pole explorer Nils Strindberg and the sculptor Tore Strindberg, whose father, as well as Henrik Strindberg's great - grandfather's father, were cousins of the author August Strindberg.

He is the brother of Staffan Strindberg.