Erik Mikael Karlsson är en tonsättare främst verksam inom elektroakustisk musik, datormusik och radiokonst i framförallt Danmark, Frankrike, Tyskland och Sverige. Han har komponerat på beställning av bl a Cullbergbaletten, Danmarks Radio, Sveriges Radio, INA-GRM i Paris, franska kulturministeriet och radio- och TV-bolaget Westdeutscher Rundfunk i Köln. 

Erik Mikael Karlsson arbetade under många år inom Sveriges Radio, bl a som chef för den levande musiken på P2. Under åren 2020-2024 var han verkställande direktör för Norrlandsoperan. Sedan mars 2024 är han verkställande direktör och konserthuschef för Malmö Live Konserthus & Malmö SymfoniOrkester. 

Stefan Klaverdal (1975-) is a Swedish composer. He studied composition at Malmö Academy of Music/Lund University for seven years with a focus on electronic and vocal music.
In his practice Klaverdal works in a wide spectrum of expressions ranging from public sound installations to concert music for various ensembles. The music is frequently performed and is held in high regard by the press. Klaverdal is also awarded with several prizes such as two-fold winner of IMEB in Bourges, the recipient of Prince Eugene Cultural Award by the states of Sweden and Norway, and 2023 he composed a large-scale oratory to the 900 anniversary of Lund Cathedral with performance in the presence of His
Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden.
Among his works are electronic and chamber music but also five chamber operas and recently a renewed love for choral music. The music is found on at least 25 albums.

The Press has described Stefan Klaverdals music as passionate and dramatic, expressive and suggestive, kaleidoscopic and very beautiful. He frequently combines both disparate musical material and acoustical and electronic instruments to create a very unique, rich musical world. Stefan Klaverdal explains that, being a singer himself, he searches for the lyrical and human aspects of music. 

Beside the extensive compositional practice, Stefan Klaverdal is head of the music department at Ravinen art and music hall in Båstad as well as artistic leader for the festivals In Between Music Festival and Göteborg Art Sounds.

Anna-Karin Klockar grew up in a small community, Orsa, in the province of Dalarna in Sweden.

Since childhood, she persisted in attempts to compose, and received piano lessons from the age of 4, and then Cello, which became her main instrument for two years at Kopparbergs läns högre musikskola in Falun (today Konservatoriet).

This was followed by two years of private lessons in composition for Lars-Erik Rosell, and then on to the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm 1980-85, where she studies Arrangement/Composition with Arne Mellnäs, Daniel Börtz, Lars-Erik Rosell and also Bengt-Arne Wallin .

After graduating  she moves to Rome, Italy.

In Italy, Klockar has been active for about 25 years mainly in the film and television industry as a composer, arranger and keyboard programmer, also collaborating with musicians such as Luis Bacalov, Pino Donaggio, Maurizio Abeni and others.

Since about 2016, Klockar is back and active in Sweden.

Klockar has been commissioned compositions in various genres: choir, ensemble, big band and orchestra, working in many different contexts, moving through classical, folk and more applied music.

In 2014 Klockar won the Swedish Church Composition Award with "Missa Dalecarliensis".  2016 her work "Speeches" received the Allmänna Sången & Anders Wall Composition Award, and in 2017 The Esoterics’ competition for choral composition "Polyphonos" in Seattle, USA.

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

Patsy Lassbo är en svensk tonsättare och teaterkonstnär vars arbete vilar i mellanrummen mellan kropp och maskin, musik och teater och representation och upplösning. Hens konstnärliga praktik rör sig främst i gränslandet mellan experimentell komposition och samtida teater där hen använder musik, syntetisk röst, dramaturgi, scenografi text, video och performance för att komponera hela teatermaskineriet. 

Patsys konstnärliga praktik är rotad i en queer, kroppslig och trans*estetisk lyssnande när- och frånvaro, med ett särintresse för de liminala, motsägelsefulla och tvetydiga fenomen, stämningar och sinnestillstånd som kännetecknar vår samtid. Med utgångspunkt i begreppet tonsatt teater komponerar hen själva teaterhändelsen: scenens dramaturgiska och affektiva helhet.

För Patsy är teater inte en fråga om representation utan om ett fysiskt, andligt och affektivt tillstånd där det förlorade avståndet mellan ting, och mellan människor, lekfullt kan skärskådas och förhandlas. Lassbo undersöker de mekanismer som styr våra upplevelser, och den kognitiva överbelastning som präglar vår samtid, och de (tom)rum dessa ger oss tillgång till.

Mellan 2022 och 2024 gick hen det prestigefyllda forskningsbaserade masterprogrammet DAS Theatre i Amsterdam, där hen fördjupade sin teaterkonst i relation till dissociation, queer ravekultur, teknologi och trans*teori. Examensverket fugue (2024) var ett musikaliskt scenkonstverk som undersökte teaterns dissociativa potential och trans-estetikens spekulativa möjligheter.

Sedan 2021 driver Lassbo produktionsplattformen Dramageddon AB tillsammans med Olof Runsten. Patsy är verksam både i egna produktioner, i samarbete med andra och på uppdrag, i Sverige och internationellt. Hens konstnärskap präglas av hög teknisk hantverksskicklighet, konceptuell skärpa och en lyssnande intuition för den samtida teaterns andning och bristningar.

Patsy Lassbo är medlem i Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare, Fylkingen och Konstmusiksystrar. Hen har tilldelats stipendier från bland annat Konstnärsnämnden och Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare, och har medverkat i över 35 professionella scenkonstproduktioner vilka har visats i Sverige, Norge, Nederländerna, Tyskland, Österrike och flera andra europeiska länder.

2025 - Magna Paranoia - videoverk av Ruby Nilsson, Jacob Habinc och Patsy Lassbo

2024 - fugue - tonsatt teater av Patsy Lassbo

2022 - Lilla Oraklet - operett av Sticky Drama*

2020 - The End of Books - teaterföreställning av Sticky Drama*

2019 - Bastard of Allegory - hörspel av Sticky Drama*

*Sticky Drama består av Patsy Lassbo, Ruby Nilsson och Olof Runsten.