Johan Sundberg

Johan Sundberg

Johan Sundberg, received his doctoral degree in Musicology at the Uppsala University in 1966. In 1979 he was awarded a personal chair in Music Acoustics at KTH, Stockholm, from which he retired in 2001. Since 1980 he is a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music. He has been rewarded the title Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of York, the University of Athens and the University of Liège.

His main research areas are the function, acoustics, and expressivity of the singing voice and the theory of music performance. He has published more than 340 scientific articles. His book Röstlära (The science of the Singing Voice), which has been translated into English, German, Japanese, and Portuguese, summarizes the status of voice research. He also has written a book on music acoustics (The Science of Musical Sounds, 1991) and has been the editor or co-editor of numerous proceedings.

He has supervised or co-supervised more than 20 doctoral students. He has organized a great number of courses on the function of the singing voice where theory has been combined with realtime feedback of various aspects of phonation.

He has coordinated a global celebration of the World Voice Day, which happens April 16 each year, now engaging more than 60 countries.