Artist
Rickard Åström
Bio
Rickard Åström is a Swedish pianist, composer, musical director and two-time Swedish Grammy Award winner. Through MusicForMoods, he creates research-inspired music for breathing, mindfulness, relaxation and stress reduction.
Rickard Åström is a Swedish pianist, composer, producer and musical director with more than 30 years of professional experience across stage, studio and research-based music projects. As a two-time Swedish Grammy Award winner and recurring musical director at the Gothenburg Opera, he has developed an artistic voice where musical precision meets a deep interest in how sound can affect the body, breathing and emotional well-being.
His work moves between acoustic piano music, ambient soundscapes, neoclassical music, world music and meditative compositions. Rickard’s music is often created for presence, recovery and inner balance, allowing piano, organic instruments, nature sounds and slow rhythmic movement to interact in a way that supports relaxation and conscious breathing.
Through MusicForMoods, Rickard Åström has developed a music project where artistic composition meets research into music and health. The project has grown from a long-term collaboration between musicians, researchers and doctors, exploring how specially composed music can guide breathing, encourage relaxation and create calming listening experiences. MusicForMoods is shaped around the idea that music can help listeners reconnect with a natural breathing flow and find a more grounded state of mind.
Together with Rexius Records, Rickard Åström and MusicForMoods continue to build a catalogue of relaxing, research-inspired recordings for meditation, breathwork, mindfulness, yoga, sleep, recovery and well-being. Releases such as Fresh Sunrise: Breathing with the Sun, Cleansing Mist: Relax in the Calming Forest, Pure Waves: Floatng in Sync with the Sea and the Swedish EP Guidad Andning med Musik och Naturljud deepen the project’s place within functional music, calming piano music and guided breathing music.
Rickard Åström’s music is made for listeners seeking relaxing instrumental music, meditative piano, ambient soundscapes, music for stress reduction or research-inspired music for well-being. With MusicForMoods, he creates a musical space where art, science and everyday recovery meet.
