performed at many festivals including Aspen, Kingston, Pensacola (USA), Cello Encounter (Rio de Janeiro) and across Europe, including the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain and Sweden. Lidström was the artistic director of the 2004/05 festival From Sweden in London, the greatest undertaking for Swedish classical music abroad by the Swedish government. His ancestor on his father's side, Richard Dybeck, wrote the Swedish national anthem. Teaching Lidström was appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1993 (Honorary Associate in 1998),. Prior to the Royal Academy, he taught at the Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has given master classes at conservatories in San Francisco, Cleveland and Oberlin, as well as in Australia, Brazil, Spain, South America, Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, the UK and Sweden. Composer, publisher, arranger Education publications Lidström's compilation of orchestral excerpts for Boosey & Hawkes, The Orchestral Cellist, formed the basis for his publishing company CelloLid.com. The Essential Warm-up Routine for Cellists gives practical guidance and daily warm-up exercises to support all facets of cello-playing. The Beauty of Scale (made possible through a research grant from the Royal Academy of Music) explores the standard scales and contains chapters on alternative scales such as pizzicato, unisons, 4ths and 7ths, and also on how to practise scales. For various instruments Compositions include Rigoletto Fantasy for cello and orchestra on Verdi's opera, Interlude for string quartet and orchestra, Maze of Love for voice, piano and orchestra, for two pianos and percussion (GSO 2012 Commission), Carnival in Venice for violin and two cellos, René Descartes in Stockholm, for solo recorder, Christmas Cookies for mezzo-soprano and 3 cellos, Pigalle divertimento for two cellos. For cello and piano Suite Tintin – 9 scenes from The Adventures of Tintin,. Premiered at the Wigmore Hall,London, March 2003 with Peter Jablonski. Four sets of pieces for young players (Spooky Pieces, Traffic, Ballroom Dances and Hotel Suite), concert suite (extract from his melodrama The Stamp King, premiered at the Wigmore Hall, London December 2010), Swedish Rhapsody (for Prime Minister Olof Palme, premiered at the Wigmore Hall December 2011), Sunflowers in the night and other love songs, and Le Cygne, in honour of Camille Saint-Saëns. See CelloLid.com. In addition to his original compositions and transcriptions, Lidström has published an ongoing series called If Bach was a cellist, transcriptions and adaptations based on a fantasy that Bach intended everything he wrote for the cello. Of the many transcriptions