Arctic residency 2023

After recieving a grant from Helge Ax:son Johnsons fund, Astrid spent a month where she grew up: in Hammerfest, the world’s most northern city. The result, a freshly composed guitar sonata, will be presented in Artic Culture Center 22th of September 2023.

World premiere:
Arktisk Kultursenter, Hammerfest 22/9

HÅJA
- sonata for solo guitar

BACCHUS Gutiar Ensemble

Cecilia Edman Bergman is currently a student at the prestigious Soloist Program at Copenhagen Music Academy. With a Bachelor Degree in music performance from Piteå Music Academy and Master Degree from Malmö Music Academy, she has been studying with teachers such as Göran Söllscher and David Hansson. She was a finalist in the Uppsala International Guitar Competition in 2021 and Jörgen Rörsjö guitar competition in 2022.

Astrid Nyborg Berg is a Norwegian guitarist and has her education from the Norwegian Academy of Music and Malmö Music Academy. During her years leading up to her Master’s Degree she studied with Erik Stenstadvold, Geir-Otto Nilsson, Göran Söllscher, David Hansson and Gunnar Spjuth. She has specialized in arranging and composition. In 2021 she was given a work grant by the City of Malmö for arranging Ravel’s String Quartet for four guitars. This is now the chore repertoire of the guitar ensemble.

Tobias Backman is an experienced chamber musician, with a degree from the chamber music education in Örebro, Sweden. Additionally, he is a skilled arrangeur and has arranged repertoire such as music by F. Schubert and J. Sibelius. He is currently a student at master level of Göran Söllscher and David Hansson at the academy of music in Malmö.

Timmy Hantoft is from Sweden and has a Bachelor from Stockholm Royal Academy of Music and a Master from Malmö Music Academy. He is currently studying an additional course in intepretation at the Academy in Malmö.

BACCHUS guitar ensemble is making bohemia great again. With ambitious arrangements of beloved masterpieces from the classical repertoire, they introduce the classical guitar to a wide audience.

Hvilepuls

(resting heart rate)

A solo concert filled with calming, beautiful guitar music. Inspired by the Baroque ideas of physical and mental health benefits from exposing audiences to contrasting emotions through music.

In a modern take, the whole 75 minutes of “Hvilepuls” is seen as a
relaxing contrast to the stressful world outside. Calm, beautiful music from the classical repertoire provides a spot in your schedule to sit back, close your eyes and do absolutely nothing.

Iris Bergcrantz
Anders Krogh Fjeldstedt
Astrid Nyborg Berg

The November Project

Three musicians from different countries and genre backgrounds explore what happens when the only common ground is the search for one particular mood.
The ensemble was initiated after playing at the same concert in 2018. The musicians
soon realized that the shared intuitive musicality went beyond the surface of style,
traditions and genre. With a repertoire spanning from the classical composer Edvard Grieg, Scandinavian folk music, metalbands such as System of a Down and the progressiv rock of Radiohead,
the ensemble offers a unique perspective of how much we all share.

The guitar ensemble (o)MEGA-4 is a quartet primarily engaged in expanding and challenging the traditional form of the classical music concert. Through the wide selection of artistic devices that make up their concept concerts, their goals is to make classical guitar music available to anyone who has the time to listen.

- GRETA KARLSSON -
- MOA NISSFOLK -
- ASTRID NYBORG BERG -
- ELISABETH JANSON -

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Hemmafrun - Kvinnor och konstnärskap 1938

…är en föreställning i två akter med musik av enbart kvinnliga kompositörer. Vidare består den av texter utdragna från eller baserade på Hemmets Veckotidning anno 1938. Texterna är utvalda på grund av deras olika perspektiv på kvinnans plats i hemmet, samhället och konsten - då som nu. Texterna förmedlas från den fiktiva husmodern Noras perspektiv, vars inre resa vi får följa genom berättelserna hon läser i veckotidningen. Bland musiken som spelas finns ett nyskrivet verk av Adina Forsberg, komponerat för vår föreställnings premiär i 2019. Dessutom framför vi även musik av bland andra Ida Presti, Maria Luisa Anido samt egenkomponerade stycken.

 
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Det spårar - En föreställning om när livet inte år som på räls

 

…är vår nyaste uppsättning, och hade premiär på Malmö Live i november 2019. Föreställningen är en enaktare som passar bra för till exempel lunchkonserter då den är enklare att sätta upp och kräver mindre av lokalen och scenutrymmet.

Föreställningen skildrar fyra för varandra främmande karaktärer som sitter i samma tågkupé och är baserad på verket "Mishima" - en stråkkvartett skriven av Philip Glass, arrangerad för gitarrkvartett av (O)MEGA-4. Under föreställningens gång får publiken insikt om att tågresenärerna är på väg till samma begravning, dock av helt olika anledningar.