Educated at the Royal College of Music and
The Academy of Opera in Stockholm. 1984-91 studies on church musician, music teacher and
the choral education classes at the University of Music: singing, among other things, for Solwig Grippe, organ for
Hans Fagius and Stefan Therstam, conducting for Eric Ericson and Jorma Panula
and theory for Lars-Erik Rosell and Per-Gunnar Alldahl. During the study period was
he is a member of Eric Ericson's Chamber Choir and the Radio Choir. The years 1991-95 studied
he for the singing pedagogues Hans Gertz and Erik Saedén at the Opera College in Stockholm,.
During the years at the Academy of Opera, he also studied electroacoustic music at EMS
in Stockholm.
The actual debut as a composer took place with the song cycle Tx: William
Blake (1989) which was broadcast a number of times on the radio. He has since done
music for several dance performances, often in collaboration with the choreographer and
wife Åsa Unander-Scharin. Here should be mentioned In the extension of the index finger (1991),
the multimedia dance work Pumpgropen (1992), Spelsinnetur (1994
– five movement melodies prepared in collaboration with the choreographer). Even Fanfare
for Form for two Aida trumpets and tape (1995), commissioned for the association
Swedish Form's 150th anniversary, has later been performed with dance. Unander-Scharins
dance pieces have been performed at Dansens Hus, Moderna Dansteatern and Danshögskolan i
Stockholm, at Dansstationen in Malmö and in Denmark and Finland.
In collaboration with the poet Katarina Frostenson, the radio opera Mannen was written
The Slope (1991) which participated in the Prix Italia 1992. The opera Tokfursten (1996,
after the idiosyncratic autobiography of Elgard Jonsson) for eight singers and
thirteen musicians received great attention when it was premiered at Vadstena Castle.
The opera was also performed during the Capital of Culture year in Stockholm 1998. During 1996
and in 1997 Figures in a landscape - song cycle was written and realized
for the radio medium, with texts by the poet Ingamaj Beck. The work was designed around nine
artists and their special way of using their voices.
Carl Unander-Scharin is active as a composer and singer in parallel: double
roles that color his composing and that have given him a special feeling
for the voice, its timbre values and expressive potential. He writes with
the "scenic" in the voice, often in an electroacoustic context or with
mixtures of electroacoustic and instrumental means.
Source: Swedish Music
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