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00015 = Daniel Börtz får Musikförläggarnas hederpris
Daniel Börtz receives the Music Publishers' honorary award
Daniel Börtz is awarded the Music Publishers' Honorary Award 2024. With a career that spans six decades, Daniel Börtz has created a unique and colorful musical treasure that left a...
00014 = Nelson & Mühlrad – två premiärer i Örebro
Nelson & Mühlrad – two premieres in Örebro
On Thursday, October 10, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra offers two premieres during the same evening, Daniel Nelson's song cycle I Am Monster, composed for the soprano Johanna Wallroth, and the...
Nordic Highlights No 3 2024
Nordic Highlights No. 3 2024
In Nordic Highlights no. 3 2024: Focus on Cecilia Damström and Matthew Whittall. News, reviews and new publications. Under repertoire tips, works for piano and string orchestra are presented.  
00012 = Cecilia Damströms Earth Songs - premiär i Tampere
Cecilia Damström's Earth Songs premieres in Tampere
On Wednesday 18 September, Cecilia Damström's violin concerto Earth Songs will be premiered in Tampere Hall. Soloist Elina Vähälä and Tampere Raw play under the direction of Maria Itkonen ,...
00011 = Matthew Petersons Vagabond
Matthew Peterson's Vagabond
On Friday, 6 September, Matthew Peterson begins his tenure as Composer-in-Residence with the Dalasinfonietta, that will premiere his Vagabond, an orchestral piece that reflects the composer's own personal and musical journey. 
00010 = Mats Larsson Gothes Symfoni nr 4 uruppförs på Östersjöfestivalen
Mats Larsson Gothe's Symphony No. 4 premieres at the Baltic Sea Festival
On Saturday 31 August, Mats Larsson Gothe's Symphony No. 4 will be premiered at the Baltic Sea Festival's final concert in Berwaldhallen. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays under the...
00009 = Nordic Highlights nr. 2 2024
Nordic Highlights no. 2 in 2024
In Nordic Highlights no. 2 2024: Focus on Olli Kortekangas, Emmy Lindström and Matthew Peterson. Latest news about our creators, premieres, reviews and new releases. Under repertoire tips, 12 new...
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Matthew Peterson – composer-in-residence with Dalasinfoniettan
Matthew Peterson is the Dalasinfoniettan's new composer-in-residence 2024–2026. The residency begins on September 6 with the premiere of the commissioned work "Vagabond", which Peterson himself describes as his most personal...
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Cecilia Damström nominated for the Nordic Council's music prize
Cecilia Damström is nominated for the Nordic Council's music prize 2024 for the work "Extinctions" (2023). Justification: "Cecilia Damström (b. 1988) has become known as a versatile and skilled composer,...
00006 = Thomas Jennefelt 70 år
Thomas Jennefelt 70 years
With his vocally anchored and expressive music, Thomas Jennefelt is one of our most established contemporary composers. Already at the age of 22, he composed one of his most successful...
00006 = Broströms Garden of Earthly Delights
Broström's Garden of Earthly Delights
On Friday, April 12, Tobias Broström's new orchestral work The Garden of Earthly Delights will have its world premiere at the Gävle Concert Hall. The piece was commissioned by and...
00005 = Erika Hammarberg - vinnare av Allmänna Sången & Anders Wall Composition Award 2024
Erika Hammarberg - winner of the Allmänna Sången & Anders Wall Compo...
The winner of the Allmänna Sången & Anders Wall Composition Award 2024 has been crowned. After reviewing entries from countries around the world, the jury has decided to award the...
00004 = Carl-Bertil Agnestig 100 år
Carl-Bertil Agnestig 100 years
On March 7, 2024, Carl-Bertil Agnestig would have turned 100 years old. With his playful and elaborate musical methodology, Agnestig was innovative when his first instrument schools were published by...
00003 = Nordic Highlights No. 1 2024
Nordic Highlights No. 1 in 2024
In Nordic Highlights no. 1 2024: Focus on Harri Wessman and the women in choral music. Latest news about our composers, premieres, reviews, new albums, releases and repertoire tips.
00002 = Kathrin Lorenzen vinnare av Solistpriset 2024
Kathrin Lorenzen vinnare av Solistpriset 2024
Sopranen Kathrin Lorenzen vann den rafflande Solistprisfinalen den 13 januari i hård konkurrens med de två andra briljanta finalisterna, Theo Hillborg, saxofon och Matilda Sterby, sopran. De tävlande hade själva...
00002 = Cecilia Damström – Extinctions premieres in Helsinki
Cecilia Damström – Extinctions premieres in Helsinki
Friday 26 January will see the world premiere of Cecilia Damström's orchestral work Extinctions in Helsinki Music Centre. The 20-minute work describes the different phases of the evolution of life on Earth....
00001 = Nordic Highlights No. 4 2023
Nordic Highlights No. 4 2023
Nordic Highlights is an international newsletter from Gehrmans Musikförlag & Fennica Gehrman focusing on classical and contemporary music from the Nordic countries.    In Nordic Highlights No. 4 2023:  – Marie Samuelsson –...
00001 = Nordic Highlights No. 3 2023
Nordic Highlights No. 3 in 2023
In Nordic Highlights no. 3 2023: Focus on Jonas Valfridsson and Géza Szilvay. Latest news about our composers, premieres, reviews, new albums, releases and repertoire tips.