Adrian Knight (b. 1987) is a Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist. His work, which “paints a curious American landscape filled with nostalgia and decay, violence and melancholic solitude” (NewMusicBox), is characterized by its lush harmonic language, rhythmic plasticity, and startling unpredictability underpinning its ruminative surface. A musical polymath and tireless experimentalist, his compositions and recordings defy easy categorization and attest to his pursuit of an entirely intuitive music rooted in an ongoing examination of symmetry and structure as spontaneous elements of our brains’ vocabulary. Knight’s scores are published by Project Schott New York and Svensk Musik.

Recent projects include the albums Mall Music (Pink Pamphlet) including solo and ensemble works from 2010-2020, Life of the Party (Pink Pamphlet), Damn the Flood (Regional Attraction), the evening length Idea to Life (Success Stories)commissioned by The Living Earth Show, and Twinlings for two pianos. Works for Longleash and Timo Andres are currently in production. The sophomore album by San Francisco’s Mobius Trio, also released in 2019, featured Knight’s composition Bon Voyage as its title track. His album length piano piece Obsessions, commissioned and recorded by R. Andrew Lee, was lauded as “a substantial achievement” (New York Classical Review), “gorgeous, haunting” (The Brooklyn Rail) and “quietly eccentric…enigmatic but irrefutable” (Musikworks Magazine).

Previous commissions by The Living Earth Show, Andy Meyerson, Karl Larson, Maya Bennardo, the Johnstone Foundation, Bearthoven, TIGUE, Post:ballet, the Yale School of Drama, Margaret Lancaster, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and others have resulted in a sizable collection of works for diverse instruments, many of which have become mainstays of the ensembles’ repertoire.

His music has been presented worldwide at prominent venues and festivals including Spoleto Festival, Lincoln Center, Tribeca New Music Festival, Mass MoCA, (le) Poisson Rouge, Issue Project Room, Avant Music Festival, Norberg Festival, Roulette, Fylkingen, Audiorama, EMPAC, Toledo Museum of Art, Tokyo University of the Arts and at numerous universities and colleges across North America.

His recordings have been released on Cantaloupe, Irritable Hedgehog, Innova, Galtta Media, Thanatosis, Slashsound and Perfect Wave, and have been featured on New Sounds WNYC, ClassicalMPR, WFMU, Resonance FM and NTS Radio to name a few.

He has received numerous awards and grants from the Society of Swedish Composers, STIM Sweden, ASCAP and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Knight holds degrees from the Yale School of Music (M.M. 2011) and The Royal College of Music in Stockholm (B.A. 2009).

In addition to his compositional work, Knight is an accomplished studio musician and and an active member of several groups, including Blue Jazz TV, Alice Cohen and the Channel 14 Weather Team, Private Elevators and Synthetic Love Dream. His steady output of solo albums released on Galtta Media has generated a dedicated following in the underground cassette community. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Education

2009-2011

Master of Music

Yale School of Music

2006-2009

Bachelor of Music

Royal College of Music in Stockholm

2000-2006

Piano studies

Stellan Alneberg

2000-2001

Clarinet studies

Catarina Lundegårdh

1999-2001

Organ studies

Andrew Canning

1993-2000

Piano studies

Kristina Eriksson

Work

2011-

Composer, Performer

2011-

Music Engraving, Music Editing

Schott Music Corporation

2010-2011

Teaching Fellow

Yale College Department of Music

Awards

2020    FST (Society of Swedish Composers)
2020    STIM Sweden
2018    FST (Society of Swedish Composers)
2015    FST (Society of Swedish Composers)
2013    FST (Society of Swedish Composers)
2012    Musikens Hus Vänner Uppsala
2012    Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute
2011    STIM Sweden
2011    ASCAP Morton Gould Award for ‘Comblé’
2010    ASCAP Mortn Gould Award for ‘Manchester’
2010    STIM Sweden
2008    Royal Swedish Academy of Music
2005    Royal Swedish Academy of Music

Solo
 

2022    Sometimes I Dream

2014    Dead In The Water

2014    Obsessions

2014    Humble Servant

2009    Death Of Paneloux

2008    Vain Attempts

2007    Abide With Me

Small Ensemble (2-6)
 

2020    Twinlings

2019    Idea To Life (Success Stories)

2018    The Continuing Dream

2018    Five Dreams

2017    Damn The Flood

2015    The Ringing World

2015    Occultations

2014    The Royal Scotsman

2013    Bon Voyage

2012    Family Man

2011    Trio

2010    20 Maj

2010    The Caligari Project

2010    The Tears

2009    Livet Innanför Väggarna

2008    Unruhe

2007    Daedaldualism

Medium Ensemble (7-13)
 

2021    God’s Children

2011    Mary’s Waltz

Large Ensemble
 

2010    Comblé

2009    Till Minne Av

2008    Manchester

Electronics
 

2011    Ted Bundy’s Requiem

2009    The Dividing Line

2009    Världens Undergång

2008    Metahymn

2008    Ricky Bruch

Stage
 

2011    Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights

Electroacoustic composer AMKosman, aka Adele Marcia Kosman, explores sound and space mainly through field recordings, synthesis, algorithmic composition and vocals, along with careful audio editing. Their latest pieces embrace concepts of emotional relationships to time, chopping and glitch, as well as formlessness and intense turbulence.

Examen från Tokyo University of Arts (Bachelor och Master of Arts) Diplom från Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm. 

Gästprofessor på Nagoya College of Music.

Arvid Kraft har fått sin musik spelad av kända ensembler verksamma inom konstmusik, såsom KammarensembleN, Norrbotten NEO, Blåsarsymfonikerna, Uppsala Kammarsolister och Musica Vitae. Hans musik har spelats på festivaler såsom ljudOljud i Stockholm, Ljudvågor i Visby, och Ung Nordisk Musik-festivalen i Reykjavik på Island. Utöver sitt musikaliska arbete är Arvid poet och har ställt ut sina texter både digitalt och fysiskt, genom bl a konstnärsmagasinet Lint Art Collective och en utställning på Färgfabriken i Stockholm 2020 betitlad Isolering / Kommunikation, kurerad av kuratorsgruppen Muskot.

Arvid har studerat under flertalet stora svenska tonsättare såsom Per Mårtensson, Marie Samuelsson, Henrik Strindberg och Malin Bång, samt den österrikiska tonsättaren Beat Furrer och den engelska tonsättaren Brian Ferneyhough.

Just nu intresserar han sig för dramaturgi, opera, samt experimentel musik som inkorporerar text och röst att göra. I nuläget studerar han programmet “Master in Experimental Music and Creation” på Högskolan för scen och musik i Göteborg, där han från och med januari 2023 också kommer studera för Fredrik Nyberg, universitetslektor i litterär gestaltning på HDK-Valand. Hans avhandling handlar om poesins akustiska uttrycksformer.

Arvid håller just nu på med ett flertal projekt. Under maj 2023 uruppförs två nya verk, ett för Musica Vitae – som spelas i Växjö och i Stockholm – och ett för den göteborgsbaserade vokalensemblen Viva Vocal Ensemble, som uruppförs på Atalante i Göteborg. Han har ingått i ett konstnärligt samarbete med dansarna och koreograferna Toby Kassell och Ingeborg Zackariassen, där de planerar att skapa verk för musik och dans under 2023. Sedan 2022 spelar också Arvid med elektronmusikern och sångerskan Adele Kosman (som ibland går under artistnamnet AMKosman). De har hittills spelat på Galleri Wetterling i Stockholm och Mediehuset i Falun.

Utöver det konstnärliga arbetet arbetar Arvid som kassör och arrangör för två musikfestivaler, Sound of Stockholm och Ung Nordisk Musik, båda sedan 2019. Han skriver även konsertrecensioner för tidskriften Nutida Musik.

https://youtu.be/JMFgzJl2aPo?t=1 (poem, 2021)

Lo Kristenson explores circular and twisting forms in her music, she strives for a listening communication between musicians, the room and the people who happens to be there. Her work has been presented in public at places such as Sound of Stokholm, KLANG festival and Only Connect.

Puls (chamberorchestra)

https://lokristenson.space/work/puls

Insekt Insikt (soundinstallation)

https://lokristenson.space/work/insekt-insikt

Vridna, Vågsång

https://open.spotify.com/track/73jWkScq73X2f2neRFFR5q?si=76ce2a1e410e4896

Hardi Kurda is a sound artist, holding PhD in music at Goldsmiths, University of London, and curator of SPACE21 Sound Gallery in Slemani. He uses radio frequency to explore noises that may have been considered illegal, abandoned, unheard, invisible, broken, distorted, untold, forgotten, or simply noises from nowhere, without a place or destination. He connects noises deeply with audiences to create an urgent listening situation based on his listening’s experience when he illegally moved to Europe. Hardi’s work receive attentions from festivals and venues across Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa such as Another Sky Festival, Shubbak Festival, Café OTO,  (London), Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Borderline Festival (Athens), and MaerzMusik, Soundings ADK (Berlin), Nomos Museum (Gdansk), Reproduction (Goa), CHR (Cape Town) Irtijal festival (Beirut). He has been granted various residencies and grants including Beyond1932 (London),  LeGuessWho? Festival (Utrecht), Radio Art Residency (Halle, Germany), Swedish Arts Grant Committee, Melos Collective (Vilnius). His recent solo album Radiola Springs. VGR Culture Grant in Sweden described him as… “Hardi bridges diverse musical traditions with socially committed compositions that blend electro-acoustics and chamber music, enriching the classical repertoire for our times.”

• Everything Illegal (Everything is Illegal), Found Score of Illegal Stories For Voice and Radiola Springs
• Listening's Urgency, Found Score of Radio Circut For Open Radio
• Interactive Radio Antennas (Interactive Sound Art)
• Illegal Performance, Found Score of Dukan-Dam (Video Score)

I am a Swedish business coach, workshop manager, and composer of contemporary music, and I play trumpet and flügelhorn. Currently, I am manager for Subtopia’s business incubator Katapult in Botkyrka, Stockholm, focusing on artistic, creative and social entrepreneurship. I am also president of the national organization for creative incubators creARTive.

2010-2017, I was president of the Society of Swedish Composers, who represents the interests of Swedish art music composers, and of the Council of Nordic Composers, as well as board member of STIM and Bonus Copyright Access . I was also Artistic Director for Nordic Music Days festival in Southbank Centre, London, in the end of September 2017.

2010-2012 I was member of the Swedish Council for Creative and Cultural Affairs, and since 2014 I am honorary member of Västgöta Nation in Uppsala.

Martin has studied composition in Stockholm, Uppsala and Amsterdam, and is member of Society of Swedish Composers since 2000. He has written for all imaginable kinds of ensembles, from solo pieces to orchestra, with or without electronics. He has also composed for film, theatre and dance.

Recent works

Three Princes of Serendip (2019), for solo percussion

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Sudoku #6 (2019), for flute quartet

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Gyration Point 3.22 (2018), for septet

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Hundra tusen miljarder (2014), for mixed choir

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Den Tredje Mannen (2012), for any duo

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Tänk (2011), film music, for archlute and recorders

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Phylnlu (2010), for three improvisers and recitation

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Fragg (2009), for archlute

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Wrench (2008), for soprano saxophone

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Opener (2007), for orchestra

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Duello (2007), for two YouHero guitars

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Sudoku#1 (2005), for eight electric guitars

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Méditation (2003), for piano

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Electrical Sunshine Window (2002), for violin and electronics

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Prizes
1999 Stockholm County Cultural Award, for 1000 years in 1000 seconds
2007 Composer in Residence, Bergslagen Chamber Symphonic

CD
Wind Music (2003) Sfz Records
Eclectric guitar experience (2007)
Fab Lab (2011)
Urverk (2017), Uppsala Vokalensemble

Published works
Concerto for Cor Anglais and Clarinet Sextet (2003). Ed Reimers
1000 years in 1000 seconds (2004). Ed Reimers
Saxparty 1.3/1.4 (2005), Ed Reimers
Half the Truth about the Universe (2005), Gold Branch Music
Tuba Trilogy (2006), Gold Branch Music

The Third Man (2023), Da Vinci Editions

Anna-Lena Laurin (1962) is a Swedish Composer living in Malmö. She was Composer in residence with Sinfonietta Riga 2018 and held the same position with Camerata Nordica 2014-2016. To Camerata Nordica she wrote Concerto for flute strings and harp, Concerto in Memoriam (for trumpet and strings) Concerto for Guitar and Sirens for the Slumberers (for solo violin and string). Concerto for flute strings and harp as well as Concerto for guitar were both nominated by SMFF as one of the most important works in Sweden 2011/2016.

Examples of other orchestras/soloists/conductors that Anna-Lena has had commissions from such as; Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Malmö Opera Orchestra, Norrlandsoperan, Göteborgs Symfoniorkester, Amalie Stalheim, Johan Bridger, Domingo Hindoyan, Olle Persson, O ́Modernt med bl a Hugo Ticciati, Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Mar del Plata, Argentina, Sveriges Radio, Nordiska Kammarorkestern, Svenska Kammarorkestern, Östgöta Blåsarsymfoniker, Joana Carneiro, Malmö Symfoniorkester, Arméns Musikkår, Norrbotten Big Band, New Places Orchestra, Göran Söllscher, Christian Lindberg, Piia Komsi (FI), Aleksander Nohr (NO)

Anders Bergcrantz, Victor Lewis (USA), Irina Emeliantseva (RU), Andrew Manze (GB), Thomas Søndergaard (DK), Anna-Maria Helsing (FI) Alicia Terzian (AR), Nisse Landgren, Håkan Hardenberger, Brynjar Kolbergsrud (NO), Haga Duo, The Gothenburg Combo, Mats Bergström, David Härenstam, Katarina Andreasson – everyone most well-reputed, among many others and her music is performed around the world at concerts, festivals, radio and TV-stations.

Laurin's music is also presented on several different CD-albums, all critically acclaimed. 

With her orchestral work ​The Painter ​and the CD ​Anders Bergcrantz Plays The Painter by Anna-Lena Laurin,​ she was awarded ​Composer of the Year #2​ at ​The 37th Annual Jazz Station Awards/The Best Jazz of 2015 ​in Los Angeles. The same site also appointed her DVD ​Iphigenia​, containing her orchestral work with the same name, ​DVD of the year 2016 #2. The piece was commissioned by Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. ​​Same site also appointed her E​lectric piano player # 6 as well as Keyboard player #6.

Swedish Radio appointed Laurin ​Composer of the Year 2013/Jazz cat​. To have reached so many accomplishments in two so different genres, truley makes Laurin very unique. 2022 she received Guldnålen - for her accomplishment in her career over the years, from Jazz i Malmö.

She started her professional career as a jazz pianist and vocalist. Nowadays, she spends most of her time composing but still performs as a jazz pianist, for example in her daughters ​Iris and Rebecca Bergcrantz constellations.​ Bands that has been critically acclaimed all over and awarded with titles such as ​Vocal Jazz CD of 2016. Her composing emphasis on symphonic music.

Laurin is also sought after as lecturer at universities, festivals, and conservatories.

Isotope (2022) Commissioned by Swedish Radio for Arméns Musikkår

Bells of Malmö (2021) commissioned by Malmö Förskönings- och planteringsförening. Public installation at Malmö city Hall

Concerto in Memoriam (2019) for  solo trumpet and symphony orchestra/strings. Orchestrated for Malmö Symphony orchestra and commissioned by Camerata Nordica

After Rain (2019) for guitar and string quartet commissioned by Stockholm Chamber

Song of the Juniper (2018) Commissioned by Göteborg Symfoniorkester 

Time of Changes (2018) for sinfonietta commissioned by Sinfonietta Riga

Carnevale Triste (2018) for solo cello and solo marimba and strings, commissioned by Musica Vitae

Sånger i vinden (2018) written on request from Olle Persson and Mats Jansson

Tempus fugit (2017) for flute and guitar commissioned by Haga Duo

Concerto for flute strings and harp (2009) commissioned by Camerata Nordica

Concerto for guitar commissioned by Göran Söllscher

Iphigenia (2009) commissioned by Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

www.stefanlevin.com

Collaborations:

DANS och SCEN

Stockholms Musikteater: "Avgång 23.11" Helaftonsmusikal. Premiär 9/10 2019

Dansk Danseteater " SIREN" Sverigepremiär 21/9 2019. Malmö.

Moscow Ballet Theatre "Dancehall" Choreography: Jeroen Verbruggen. Premiere 21/6 2019

Hessisches Staatsballett: "The Great Trust". Choreography: Jeroen Verbruggen. Premiere June 2018, Darmstadt.

Les Ballets de Monte Carlo: "A Summer's Wintershadow" Choreography. Pontus Lidberg. July 2015

New York City Center ”Fall for Dance Festival”. Choreographer Pontus Lidberg’s new creation "This was written on Water", Fall for Dance, New York 18-19/10, 2014.
2 vlns, 1 Vlc and backtracks. Played by DuoW and Francesca dePasquale. Dancers: Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside from American Ballet Theatre. 

Royal Swedish Opera Ballet, Stockholm. The Ballet ”Kom ni döttrar” 2012. Choreographer: Giovanni Bucchieri

FILM 

Anna Odell: “Okänd kvinna”, Original score for “Återträffen” and "X&Y"

"Händelser i Ydre" Original score. Fosfor Produktion

"Sussie and the Dollhouse (SVT sept. 2015) by Maryam Ebrahimi, Nima Films, Sweden
"Thos who said No" by Nima Sarvestani 2015, Nima Films, Sweden
"Stronger Than a Bullet" by Maryam Ebrahimi 2017, Nima Films, Sweden

Råfilm – Closing music for the documentary film: ”Detained” (Förvaret) Guldbaggebelönad.

“Sand” SVT november 2015, Choreographer Joakim Stephenson
Galapiece for Stockholm Filmfestival nov 2015

The pop-art project: Sister

Stockholm 59North

Cullbergbaletten

Ballet du Rhin

Hessisches Staatsbalett

Tonsättaren Katarina Leyman (1963) kommer ursprungligen från ön Orust i Bohuslän men lever och verkar nu i Stockholm. Under åren 2000-2005 studerade hon komposition och musikteoripedagogik vid Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm. Hon har även studerat i Boston USA, under 6 år, där hon tog en masterexamen i komposition vid New England Conservatory of Music 1995 och dessförinnan en dubbel kandidatexamen i komposition och filmmusikkomposition vid Berklee College of Music 1993.

Färg och struktur, form och rörelse är ofta utgångsläge för och formskapande element i Katarinas musik. Idéer till kompositioner kan väckas av olika naturfenomen såsom vatten, moln, vulkanisk verksamhet, fiskars rörelser i stim...

Katarinas musik har framförts i stora delar av Europa, i USA, Sydamerika och Ryssland, bland annat vid olika musikfestivaler såsom Östersjöfestivalen 2010, ISCM World New Music Days Zagreb 2011 och Nordic Music Days Reykjavik 2011, Brassfestivalen Signal Gävle 2014, Saxå kammarmusikfestival 2015, Sound of Stockholm 2016. Orkestermusiken har framförts av orkestrar som Stockholmsfilharmonikerna, Radiosymfonikerna, Norrlandsoperans och Gävles symfoniorkester mm., i flera svenska konserthus som Berwaldhallen, Stockholms, Malmös, Göteborgs, Norrlandsoperans, Gävles, Varas och Cassels konserthus samt i Hamburgs Elbphilharmonie, Köln, Zagreb, St. Petersburg och Reykjavik.

Katarina arbetar ofta i nära samarbete med olika musiker och ensembler i olika kammarmusikprojekt. Dec 2019 presenterades delar av hennes kammarmusik på första egna porträttskivan ”Vattenklanger”.

Undulating Blue, ett beställningsverk för Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, uruppfördes i Berwaldhallen 16/17 maj 2019 och nominerades till Musikförläggarnas pris 2019. Tales of Lost Times för solo viola, beställd av Konserthuset Stockholm och ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation), framfördes under säsongen 2017/18 i ett flertal större europeiska konserthus.

Under åren 2012 till 2015 var Katarina Norrlandsoperans symfoniorkesters hustonsättare. I uppdraget ingick bland annat fyra beställningsverk: Concerto for Orchestra: An Odyssey, Clarinet Concerto: Verdure som nominerades till Musikförläggarnas pris 2015, Roller Coaster: Super 8, för Norrlandsoperans projekt Beethoven & Beyond under Kulturhuvudstadsåret i Umeå 2014 och Transient Skies, ett storskaligt orkesterverk i fyra satser som nominerades till Musikförläggarnas pris 2013. September 2014 vann King of Clouds för orkester andra pris i ”den Åttonde ryska kompositionstävlingen i Andrey Petrovs minne”, St. Petersburg, Ryssland

Genombrottsverket Solar Flares, ett beställningsverk av SR Berwaldhallen uruppfördes under Östersjöfestivalen 2010.

Orchestra:

- Undulating Blue

- Concerto for Orchestra: An Odyssey

- Clarinet Concerto: Verdure

- Roller Coaster: Super 8

- Transient Skies

- Solar Flares

- Streams

More than 300 records released. 
http://www.discogs.com/artist/96-Håkan-Lidbo

http://hakanlidbo.com