Ulf Långbacka

Who is Ulf Långbacka?

Ulf Långbacka, born 1957, is a Finland-Swedish conductor and composer.

Långbacka trained at the Sibelius Academy. He received his diploma in choral conducting in 1987. He has been director of the chamber choir Cantabile and since 1991 has been lecturer in musicology at Åbo Akademi University and conductor of the Brahe Djäknar and Flora choirs. Between 1993 and 1996, Ulf Långbacka was conductor with the Finnish Swedish Choir Federation. He has composed choral works and chamber music, including the cantata The Inner Light, written for Turku Academy's 80th anniversary in 1998. He has won prizes in several competitions for his choral compositions, among them second prize in the Turku Conservatory Nordic composition contest in 2007.

Ulf Långbacka has also worked as a teacher of choral conducting at the Sibelius Academy.

On 27 August 2011 his opera Henrik och Häxhammaren had its premiere at Turku Castle as part of Turku's year as joint European Capital of Culture.