Artists
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Martin Fröst
Martin Fröst, one of today’s most prominent contemporary solo clarinettists, tours the world’s most prestigious stages and will this year come to Vinterfest directly from Japan where he performed with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Guest performances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna’s Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, Iceland’s Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen. His recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto holds a record in sales with over 200,000 sold recordings. Martin is both an advocate of tradition and a trendsetter. His ambition to explore new aspects of musical creativity and the full range of the clarinet is a huge source of inspiration for contemporary composers. While listening to the Swedish Radio’s summer programme, Sommarpratare, we had the opportunity to get to know a side of Martin we otherwise do not see at a concert. However, as artistic director for Vinterfest and IMC in Stavanger, he puts his mark on the programme through his choice of artists and music.
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Rolf Martinsson
Rolf Martinsson, composer and Composer in Residence Vinterfest 2012, is one of Sweden’s most internationally performed composers. Martinsson has had a series of international collaborations with leading conductors, soloists and orchestras. As of 2002, he is Composer in Residence and artistic advisor for new music at the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music Theory with Arranging and Composition at the Malmö Academy of Music since 2006. The 2012 Vinterfest will for the first time have a Composer in Residence. The choice was an easy one to make given that Martinsson wrote Concert Fantastique for Martin Fröst, which he will perform during the opening cocert in Mora Church.
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Kerstin Avemo
Kerstin Avemo, soprano, has established herself as an internationally acclaimed singer, recognised not least for her commanding stage personality. The past years, she has worked with opera houses in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Zurich, Paris (Châtelet), Lille, Copenhagen and Strasbourg, and performed at the Wiener Festwochen and the festival in Aix-en-Provence
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Liza Ferchtman
Liza Ferschtman, violin, recipient of the 2006 Dutch Music Prize, the highest government award in the Netherlands, has achieved international recognition as one of the most significant artists of her generation. Her performances are known for their passionate, yet intellectual qualities. She has performed with all the major Dutch orchestras and regularly performs in international music events.
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Giovanni Guzzo
Giovanni Guzzo, violin, is a rapidly rising star in the musical heavens. He has worked closely with some of today’s leading musicians and his talent has been recognised through a series of awards. He is the leader of The Manchester Camerata Orchestra and he has performed several times for the British Royal Family. He was awarded with Her Majesty the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence in 2009.
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Apollon Musagète Quartett
Apollon Musagète Quartett made up of Paweł Zalejski, violin, Bartosz Zachłod, violin, Piotr Szumieł, viola and Piotr Skweres, cello, is a Polish string ensemble of four strong music personalities in search of new forms of performance. Formed four years ago, the quartet is praised by critics, has won chamber music competition prizes in Vienna and Florence, participated in many festivals, and founded its own festival – Apollon Musagète Festival in Goslar – in 2010.
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Matthew Barley
Matthew Barley, cello, whose musical world has virtually no geographical, social or stylistic boundaries. One of many exciting projects of his career was his marathon UK tour, during which he played 20 solo recitals and gave 17 workshops in 30 days. The venues ranged from prestigious concert halls, to a prison, a school for terminally ill children, and a vegetarian cafe. The programme included improvisation, core classical music, contemporary music, and a piece for cello with computer and midi-pedal board! The tour was a huge success with many sold-out houses.
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Torleif Thedéen
Torleif Thedéen, cello, is one of the most highly regarded musicians in Scandinavia. He gained international recognition in 1985 by winning three of the world’s most prestigious cello competitions. He is constantly involved in new projects and travels the world in pursuit of new musical challenges. He has recorded numerous critics-acclaimed CDs featuring both standard repertoire pieces and contemporary music.
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Shai Wosner
Shai Wosner, piano, has attracted international recognition for his musical integrity, creativity and artistry. He has a broad repertoire ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Ligeti and our contemporary composers. He is widely sought after by colleagues in the international musical community for his versatility and expertise. Wosner’s debut recording in 2010 including music by Brahms and Schoenberg was hailed in The New York Times for its inventively conceived interpretations.
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Julien Quentin
Julien Quentin, piano, is an artist in demand as both soloist and chamber musician the world over. He has established himself as a versatile and sensitive musician, exhibiting distinct clarity and a balanced depth in his interpretations. His repertoire as a soloist is without exception classical, but he also pursues his interest in more experimental electronic music, resulting in, among other things, collaboration with producer Martin Wheeler.
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Per Arne Glorvigen
Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon, is one of his generation’s foremost bandoneon players. He has expanded the instrument’s repertoire from the tango to include baroque music, Grieg, klezmer, pop and contemporary music. As soloist, he has performed with many of the world’s greatest orchestras, collaborated with violinist Gideon Kremer, the Alban Berg Quartet and the Vertavo Quartet. Glorvigen is also a comedian with language sketches as a speciality.
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Göran Söllscher
Göran Söllscher, guitar, gained international acclaim in Paris in 1978 when he won the prestigious guitar competition, Concours International de Guitare. With his brilliant interpretations of masterpieces from guitar literature, the world has since been literally at his feet. In addition to being a popular concert guitarist, he holds a professorship at the Malmö Academy of Music since 1993. Schöllscher is a member of Sweden’s Royal Academy of Music.
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Göran Fröst
Göran Fröst, viola, is a devoted interpreter of contemporary repertoires and several pieces have been composed for him. At the recent Chiffren festival in Kiel, Fröst was soloist for the first time performance of Ivo Nilsson’s Double Concerto for Viola and Bassoon. His own compositions have been played by recognised orchestras. As a musician, he has worked with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and been guest principal violist for several orchestras in Sweden and the UK. He is currently principal violist for the Nordic Chamber Orchestra.
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Stockholm Chamber Brass
Stockholm Chamber Brass, founded in 1985, consists of Urban Agnas, trumpet, Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet, Annamia Larsson, Franskt Horn, Jonas Bylund, trombon, and Lennart Nord, tuba. Stockholm Chamber Brass’ international breakthrough came as early as 1988 when they won an international competition for brass quintets in Narbonne, France.
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MalleusIncus
MalleusIncus, percussionist duo Johan Bridger and Patrick Raab, was formed in 1996 when the two met while attending the same college. They share an interest in percussion instruments and classical music. Johan is one of Sweden’s most prominent percussionists and an expert marimba player. As freelance soloist, he has performed with many Swedish orchestras, and given solo performances in the USA and throughout Europe. Patrick is solo percussionist at the Royal Danish Orchestra in Copenhagen. They debuted in Asia in 2011 and have toured Japan.
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Sprill & Sprall
The music theatre group Sprill & Sprall, a.k.a. Anders Linder and Kerstin Wikström, invite you to the music theatre play, Albert’s remarkable journey. Anders is perhaps most known to children and now overgrown children as cult figure Captain Zoom. The audience will know Kerstin Wikström from Bollibompa’s Björnes Magasin, a children’s television programme in which she was both host and artist for ten years.
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Camilla Lundberg
Camilla Lundberg is a famous media profile in the arts community. She is head of the Music Department for SVT Kultur since 1999 and her book, Musikens myter (2000) was nominated for the August Award. Most recently, Lundberg was visiting professor at the Aesthetics Department, Linköping University. She studied at the School of Journalism and has also studied musical science. In addition to working as producer for Musikradion P2, she was also a music critic for the evening paper, Expressen. Lundberg is personally a devout amateur chamber musician.
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Jonas Forsell
Jonas Forsell, composer, Martin Fröst’s artistic adviser, host and debater, has written music for the Swedish National Theatre and local city theatres in Gothenburg and Uppsala. He has served as artistic director for Norrlands Opera and Composer in Residence for Malmö Opera. Forsell is also clarinettist and saxophonist, and works primarily as a theatre musician. During the Vinterfest, we will see him the role of host, debater and musical guide.
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Björn Granath
Björn Granath, , actor and reciter, is one of Sweden’s busiest actors starring in a broad range of roles. To the general public, he is perhaps most well known for his roles in the screen versions of Astrid Lindgren’s Madicken and the misunderstood father in Lasse Åberg’s Sällskapsresan II (Snowroller). Granath is a member of the Royal Dramatic Theatre and has over the years received several prestigious awards for his work. You will see him at the Vinterfest in the role of reciter.
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Bjarte Engeset
Bjarte Engeset is chief conductor and artistic director for DalaSinfoniettan as of 2007. He completed his training with legendary Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 1989. In 1990, he placed in the Nordic Conducting Competition and one year later participated in the famous conductor seminar, Tangelwood Seminar in the USA. Engeset has conducted leading orchestras in all of Scandinavia, Europe, the Baltic countries and the USA.
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Dalasinfoniettan
Dalasinfoniettan, was formed in 1988 and is an ensemble of 28 closely knit musicians. Among the concerts played in 2011, the orchestra played together with The Ark at the Peace & Love Festival for more than 30,000 people and participated at two popular concerts in Dalhalla together with the very popular mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman. This spring, the orchestra and violin virtuoso Henning Kraggerud recorded a CD of Nordic violin classics and gave a very successful performance in Falun in conjunction with the recording. Festspelen in Bergen, Norway, one of the largest chamber music festivals in the Nordic countries, assigned DalaSinfoniettan the honourable appointment of Orchestra in Residence.
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