COMPOSERS WEEKEND FESTIVAL AT THE CONCERT HALL IN STOCKHOLM, APRIL 24-27 WITH TWO WORLD PREMIÈRES
The upcoming composers weekend-festival in April will be an event where three world premières will take place. ¨Zarah-suite¨, a orchestral piece commissioned by the Philharmonic based upon music from the successfull opera ¨Zarah. A work for saxophone quartet, ¨Phonetasy¨, premièred by the saxophone quartet, Rollin' Phones, who will also perform Concerto grosso I. ¨Ballade¨ for english horn and piano, commissioned and premièred by Helén Jahren and Martin Sturfält, who will also be the soloist in the Piano concerto. For the first time in Stockholm ¨Lamento¨ for organ, flute and cello, will be preformed. It was a commission and was premièred during the Oistrach-festival in Pärnu, Estonia, in remebrance the first decade since the catastrophe and loss of m/s Estonia and the victims in memoriam.
Other participating musicians and ensembles during this event will be the Tale String quartet; Katarina Böhm (mezzosoprano), Per Lundberg, piano; Hermann Stefánsson klarinett, ....., flute; Jan Risberg, conductor; Erik Lundkvist, organ; and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Petter Sundkvist.
The song cycle ¨Jordens drömmar gröna¨ ( The green dreams of Earth), for baritone and orchestra, commissioned by the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra for the 300 anniversary of the birth of Carl von Linné premiered. The songs are based on poems by Torsten Pettersson, which reflects the life of Linné during the different stages. First performance was on 26th of April -07 at the Uppsala university auditorium, together with Mahler's first symphony, performed by the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, conductor Paul Mägi, and John Erik Eleby, baritone.
30.3.2006 Just finished a new opera, ¨Zarah¨, in two acts with a libretto, written by Claes Fellbom. It is about the famous swedish artist, Zarah Leander, who made a tremendeous career as a grammophone artist and as a actor in Germany, during the Nazi regime.
The opera is commissioned by the Folkoperan in Stockholm, with funds from the National Board of Culture in Sweden. It will be premiered 23 September 2007 at Folkoperan in Stockholm. More details to be followed...
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