Tore Uppström

Who was Tore Uppström?

Tore Ingvar Uppström was a Swedish pianist, composer and author.

Uppström studied at Royal College of Music, Stockholm, from 1959 to 1963 and at the Vienna Academy of Music from 1963 to 1964. He toured in Sweden and abroad, performed about 300 concerts and participated in radio broadcasts around a hundred times. He worked as a music teacher, was chairman of Svenska tonkonstnärsförbundet, a union for Swedish free-lance musicians, and consultant for Föreningen Musikcentrum, another organization for freelance musicians.

In 1973 he published the book Pianister i Sverige, an overview based on a series of lectures in Swedish radio on the history of piano music in Sweden from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century. Another book, Spelrummet Sverige. En ordbok om 1900-talets artister, trender och motbilder. Om Svenska tonkonstnärsförbundet i tiden was published in 1997. Uppström also published a number of articles for musical periodicals.