Vinterfest english program 2015 by Dalasinfoniettan

Ten years of sparkling chamber music in ovansiljan

5–8 FEBRUARy // MORA, ORSA & ÄLVDALEN program in english 2015

roots Monotone, and of heavenly awe, the Gregorian melodies sound from the church. It’s the ancient source of the sacral music. Composers ranging from Bach and Mozart to and including Stravinsky, Arvo Pärt, Hillborg and many others have always been fascinated and inspired by it’s unique harshness and asceticism. On the walls surrounding the cemetery we sit, fiddlers and jesters, entertaining the passers with our stories. We receive some pieces from those who has gathered around us while we have performed our arts and we think, that we want to return here when we have visited the other villages in the area. This profane source is the other one out of which composers of all times have poured. Both was present before there were known composers to the melodies. The origin was not always as important as the way it was performed and that’s the part were we, dear audience, come into the picture. The munks sang, the jesters played, the music changed, transformed and stayed the same - stayed itself - and was about everything.

Romani people that guards, passes on and progresses the Greek Rebetiko as the Jewish Klezmer or Rumanian pan flute music. So don’t shoot the messenger or to quote Shakespeare: ”Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for time doth change his nature.” It’s with great happiness and gratitude that I look back at the ten Vinterfests I’ve had the pleasure to be apart of. The volunteers, enthusiasts, artists and audience. Musik i Dalarna, the three municipalities, congregations and folk high schools that all have been contributing to lifting it up and why I’m certain that Vinterfest will stay on top, and hopefully keep rising higher, in the future. This journey came to be one of my most important projects over this time. I now leave the festivities just as I’m having the most fun. I warmly welcome the next artistic director and wish Vinterfest just as content rich years in the future as those I’ve had the pleasure to experience. Now it’s time to enjoy the tenth edition of the Vinterfest festival. Welcome! Martin Fröst Artistic Director, Vinterfest 2015

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Music has probably always been existed. Singing might predate speaking. Some of the first attempts to write down music that has been found to derive from the Greeks in the centuries around the beginning of the Common Era, that is, more than two thousand years ago. Three of these ancient hymns (Seikilos Epitafium, Hymn to the Sun and Hymn to the Muse) have been woven into the celebration of wisdom (O virtus Sapientie) by Hildegard of Bingens, that then passes onto the folk music inspired finale, to a renowned Telemann concerto and finishes off with Piazzolla. A fast forward through the history of music with the sacral and profane ancient source as a foundation.

welcome to Vinterfest! 2015 is the tenth time we are organizing Vinterfest and we are happy to yet again open the doors to our concert halls, churches and other venues to the world renowned artists that our artistic director Martin Fröst has chosen to collaborate with this year. We have many extraordinary and unique experiences that await us, both in the form of chamber music but also larger settings with our own Dalasinfoniettan with soloists from stages around the world. The meeting with the chamber music festival ”Vinterfestspill i Bergstaden” in Norwegian Röros in 2005 became the final inspiration to start realize the thoughts of creating a place for people to discover and experience classical music. The discovery that a music festival could take place in the middle of winter was well suited for our scenery and created the conditions for the event to become something unique. In the initial written vision from 2006 we find key values as ”bold and exciting, high quality artistry and international standard” but also ”darkness, snow, cold, sparkling white” together with the contrasting ”happiness, light, glow and warmth” to help us find the right content and atmosphere. At the final concert of Vinterfest 2006 we announced Martin Fröst as our artistic director. He had already at that time, ten years ago, made strong impressions in the music world as one of the top wind soloists with his personal, innovative artistic style. Our collaboration with him have of course had a vital impact on the evolution of Vinterfest and to create and give it the inspiring direction and the international reputation it has today. Under his guidance we have gotten used to a artistic level of programs and visiting musicians that we would not dare to dream of and every year have our audience has left Vinterfest with great musical experiences.

lenging musical projects starting 2015/2016, we of course feel a great sadness but also great gratitude for the journey we have experienced together with him. Something we also share with our audience. So what is next? How will we go forward determining the future and direction of Vinterfest? And who is brave enough to carry the baton forward after Martin and show us a new track towards intimate musical encounters with artists from stages around the world in Mora, Orsa and Älvdalen? This is of course a relevant question and we hope to present a new artistic director for Vinterfest 2016/2017, with an exciting and personal musical expression, in the near future. Welcome to this year’s festival! Karin Switz Initiator for Vinterfest & former County Music Director Karin Holdar, County Music Director Martin Fröst, Artistic Director David Lundblad, Project Manager Caroline Smitmanis Smids, Cultural Affairs Director Mora Maria Thorstensson, Cultural Affairs Director Älvdalen Peter Bernhorn, Cultural Affairs Director Orsa

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photo: Per Eriksson grafisk / design: daniel garpebring

The host orchestra of vinterfest

ber music programs to local organizers. Dalasinfoniettan regularly invites internationally acclaimed soloists and guest conductors and besides orchestral concerts they also take part in opera or musical performances. Since 2005 Dalasinfoniettan hosts the international chamber music festival Vinterfest and since 2011 also hosts Swedish summer festival Musik vid Siljan.

Dalasinfoniettan was formed in 1988 and has today 28 full-time musicians. It is based in Falun in central Sweden and has a mission to cover the whole region of Dalecarlia with annual concerts in a variety of venues. The orchestra gives more than 80 concerts every year in repertoire spanning from baroque to contemporary music and jazz. Occasionally they also join forces with other orchestras to perform large-scale symphonic works. On the other hand various ensembles from the orchestra offer cham-

During 2015, Tobias Ringborg finishes his three-year term as Principal conductor and Artistic advisor for Dalasinfoniettan. More information on: www.dalasinfoniettan.se facebook.com/dalasinfoniettan instagram.com/dalasinfoniettan

dalasinfoniettan vinterfest 2015: Violin 1 Vlad Stănculeasa & Anders Jakobsson, concert masters, Staffan Eriksson, Johannes Paulsson, Ola Lindgård, Ewa Gammelgård Violin 2 Manu Berkeljon, Elisabeth Lagergren, Maud Norman, Johanna Tysk, Erika Lindgren Viola Mats Hedrén, Anders Norén, Anna Raihle, Thomas Ringqvist Cello Tomas Blanch, Beata Söderberg, Marika Erlandsson Double bass Jan-Anders Ernlund, Björn Jernberg Flute Karin Lekteus, Tomas Hellström Oboe Inken Menck, Hanna Svensson Clarinet Jonas Viklund, Anna McGregor bassoon Gabriel Litsgård, Are Bøen Lauritzen French Horn Christina Landén, Johan Lindstrand Trumpet Per Larsson Tysk, Mats Heinemann TROMBONe Paulina Moberg saxophone Tomas Agnas PIANO Bengt Forsberg harpsichord Henrik Alinder Timpani David Kangasniemi percussion Johan Bejke

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// thursday 5 FEBRUARy Våmhus Church 6.00 p.m.

Se solen sjunker (See the sun setting) The reason for the slow movement in Schubert’s Piano Trio in E-flat Major is that the young singer Isaak Albert Berg who, after completing his studies in Copenhagen, during the years 1827 through 1829 traveled around Europe and performed at several location, including Vienna, where he met Schubert and sang Se solen sjunker for him. The E-flat Major Trio is one of Schuberts last larger works and was completed i November of 1827, one year before his passing. The Scherzo movement is designed as a canon where the violin and the cello imitates the piano, while the final movement features the Swedish folk song a few times which ties the piece together. That theme have often been used in film scores, including Barry Lyndon (1975) by Stanley Kubrick and the award winning La pianiste (2001) by Michael Hanekes. Brahms loved the german folk songs - he arranged several of them for solo voice and piano - but he was also very fond of the Hungarian music, of what the famous Hungarian Dances is proof of. But Hungarian rhythms is also found in his other works, including the piano quintet and in this, his first, piano quartet. It was written in the years 1856 through 1861 and was first performed in Hamburg with Clara Schumann playing the piano part.

repertoire: Isaak Albert Berg (1803–1886): Se solen sjunker Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major D. 929 I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Scherzando. Allegro moderato IV. Allegro moderato INTERMISSION Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor Op. 25 I. Allegro II. Intermezzo: Allegro III. Andante con moto IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto with: Alina Pogostkina, violin, Polina Leschenko, piano, Maxim Rysanov, viola, Nicolas Altstaedt, cello, Jacob Koranyí, cello, Roland Pöntinen, piano, Vinterfolket Admittance: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/young people Duration: 2 hours incl. intermission.

Teaterbaren, Orsa 7.00 p.m.

Ung Jazz (Young jazz) The Jazz Programme at Musikkonservatoriet in Falun will make several of their appreciated appearances also this year. See the jazz stars of tomorrow, both as soloists and as an ensemble.

18-21 february 2016

with: Fifty Second Street

www.vinterfest.se

Admittance: 100 SEK Duration: 2 hours incl. intermission.

mora, orsa & älvdalen

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// FriDAy 6 FEBRUARy Älvdalen Church 12.00 p.m.

Vandraren - en pilgrims resa (The Wanderer - The Journey of a Pilgrim) The Austrian count and philanthropist Ferdinand Troyer was also a talented amateur clarinettist and would gladly play Beethovens septet, that was highly popular in both Vienna and abroad. In early 1824 he commissioned a piece in similar style from Franz Schubert which Schubert accepted but augmented the orchestration by adding a second violin making it an octet consisting of a clarinet, a bassoon, a french horn, two violins, a viola, a cello and a double bass. The structure is close to Beethovens work as well as the relationship of the keys of the movements even though Beethovens work is in E-flat Major while Schuberts is in F Major. With its six movements and a duration of almost an hour this is one of the most grand chamber music work by Schubert. With the client in mind it also has a prominent clarinet part where the clarinet, for example, is the instrument presenting the main theme in the slow second movement. repertoire: Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Octet in F Major D. 803 I. Adagio – Allegro – Più allegro II. Adagio III. Allegro vivace – Trio – Allegro vivace IV. Andante con variazioni. Un poco più mosso – Più lento V. Menuetto. Allegretto – Trio – Menuetto – Coda VI. Andante molto – Allegro – Andante molto – Allegro molto

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with: Pekka Kuusisto, violin, Alina Pogostkina, violin, Blythe Engström, viola, Martin Fröst, clarinet, Fredrik Ekdahl, bassoon, Jasper de Vaal, french horn, Matthew McDonald, double bass, Nicolas Altstaedt, cello Admittance: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/young people Duration: 1.5 hours incl. intermission.

Bilkompaniet, Mora 4.00 p.m.

Ung Jazz Möter Magnus Lindgren (Young Jazz meets Magnus Lindgren) The Jazz Programme of Musikkonservatoriet in Falun make a exciting visit at Bilkompaniet. This time in an interesting meeting with jazz musician Magnus Lindgren, a multitalented music maker. His ability to express himself on both the tenor saxophone as well as the clarinet and the flute is masterful while he, at the same time, handles several other instruments with full mark. Enjoy a delightful fusion of solo and ensemble featuring an already established and multifaceted musician together with the jazz stars of tomorrow. with: Magnus Lindgren, saxophone, Fifty Second Street Admittance: 100 SEK Duration: 1.5 hours incl. intermission.

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On account of Vinterfest’s ten year anniversery, a book is released! As a reader you are welcome behind the scenes of Vinterfest - a place created for people from near and far to discover and experience classical music. Buy the book during the festival at the info tables at selected concerts or Vinterfest’s secretariat at Moraparken and at the help desk at Mora cultural center.

More info on www.vinterfest.se.

Always week 27!

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// FrIDAY 6 FEBRUARY Mora Church 6.00 p.m.

Roots There are many different musical roots coming together during this concert - some have been growing for 900 years while others began evolving just a few years ago. Together they form a network of branches that combined represents the diversity we solemnly call the Western classical music. The american composer and conductor Eric Whitacre is one of the most popular and most frequently player composers of our time. Lux Aurumque, the Latin translation of ”Light and Gold”, is a christmas piece written in the year 2000. Hildegard of Bingen was with a strong personality in the middle ages. She was an abbess, a mystic, a preacher and a writer. She composed music, founded monasteries while also practicing naturopathy. O virtus Sapiente is a celebration of wisdom. Georg Philip Telemann was operating in Hamburg and a good friend of both Bach and Händel. By his contemporaries he was considered the foremost of the three. He was incredibly productive and it is only in the recent years, in the 1980s and 1990s, that we have been able to catalog his works and reach the conclusion that we wrote more than 3000 pieces of music. He wrote more than 35 operas that have been preserved - and there were presumably even more - loads of church music and countless orchestral works. The Argentine Astor Piazzolla was the one that took the tango from night clubs and dance salons to the concert halls. By combining the traditional tango with elements from jazz as well as contemporary music he created the synthesis we now sort under the title ”Nuevo Tango”. La Muerte del Ángel (The Death of the Angel) was composed in the 1960s and part of a series of ”angel pieces”. Page 8 We reserve the right to make changes

In his later years, when he was well past sixty, Haydn set out to compose an oratory. He had heard Messias by Händel in London and gotten ahold of a text, meant for Händel, which was, quite freely, based on Miltons Paradise Lost. His good friend Baron van Swieten helped him translate the text to German which then served as the foundation on which he created one of the most youthful and loving work in its genre: full of imagination and richness of melodies and, especially, the paintings of nature that make up the story of creation. The inspiration was flowing when The Creation came to life. Andrea Tarrodi is increasingly standing out as one of the most interesting Swedish composers and she has also had several major international successes. Lucioles was written in 2011 commissioned by Svenska Kammarorkestern in Örebro and was first performed in Örebro Konserthus March 29th 2012. ”Lucioles” is the French word for fireflies and the inspiration for the work was indeed a haiku poem about fireflies. Bo Nilsson had a major break through internationally at the age of nineteen when his work Zwei Stücke was performed in Köln. Arctic Air was composed in 2001 and is naturally a link to his background in the northern parts of Sweden. Someone is supposed to have said that Camille Saint-Saëns was the one top composer in music history that wasn’t a genius. True or not, his music as stood the test of time even though he might be as popular right now. Saint-Saëns was one of the great pianists of his time and could also write for his instrument. Of his five piano concertos the second is the most frequently played.

repertoire: Eric Whitacre (b. 1970): Lux Aurumque Ancient suite (trans. and arr. Jonas Forssell): 1st Deplic Hymn Hymn to the Sun Hymn to the Muse Hildegard van Bingen (1098–1179): O virtus Sapientie Georg Philip Telemann (1681–1767): Presto from Double Concerto Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992): Muerte del Ángel (arr. Göran Fröst) Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): from The Creation: Die Vorstellung des Chaos Nun beut die Flur das frische Grün Auf starkem Fittiche schwinget sich der Adler stolz Andrea Tarrodi (b. 1981): Lucioles

Moraparken 10.00 p.m.

Frost & Friends Martin Fröst gathers this year’s artists for a relaxed evening with music, artists and audience in focus. Admittance: 400 SEK Ticket includes a plate of delights/cold cuts

Duration: 2 hours incl. intermission.

INTERMISSION Bo Nilsson (b. 1937): Arctic Air Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921): Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 22 I. Andante sostenuto II. Allegro scherzando III. Presto with: Elin Rombo, soprano, Roland Pöntinen, piano, Martin Fröst, clarinet, Magnus Lindgren, flute & saxophone, Anders Jakobsson, violin, members from Dalasinfoniettans choir, David Lundblad, chorus master, Lunds Student Singers, Folke Alin, conductor, Dalasinfoniettan, Tobias Ringborg, conductor Admittance: 360 SEK adults, 180 SEK listening (behind pillar with display), 160 SEK children/young people Duration: 2 hours incl. intermission.

Dalasinfoniettan’s printed program for spring 2015 is finally here 39 pages packed with interviews, concerts, artists and conductors. Meet the new county music manager Karin Holdar, read the musicians’ own homage to the outgoing chief conductor Tobias Ringborg, meet fans and find out what amazing concerts lies ahead of us! Read the program digitally on www.dalasinfoniettan.se

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// saturday 7 FEBRUARy Mora 11.00 a.m.

Triptyk Mykola Lysenko is often called ”the father of the Ukrainian classical music”. He wore several hats - composer, pianist, music ethnologist and educator. He was driven by the conviction that his own art should serve the interests of the Ukrainian nation and that may be why he wrote Elegie, meaning lament. For Jean Sibelius the new century started with a horrible tragedy where his youngest daughter of three, Kirsti, died from typhus. Sibelius mood changed of which the melancholic and quickly composed Fantasia for cello and piano is proof of. It was later renamed Malinconia which translates to ”melancholy”. Sergei Rachmaninoffs production of chamber music contains two piano trios with the name Trio Elégiaque (of which the latter one is a homage to Tchaikovsky) and Cello Sonata in G Minor Op. 19. He is said to have disliked calling it a cello sonata as he thought that both instruments, piano and cello, was just as prominent. Pyotr Tchaikovsky has always been among the most popular composers. The reason for this is threefold: his music is personal - you can often easily recognize its characteristics - it is elegant and melodic. His production of chamber music is however quite thin: a piano trio, a string sextet, a piece for violin and piano and three string quartets - four if you count an early piece that never was completed. Of these works the String Quartet No. 1 is, by far, the most frequently played. A ricercar is a type of late renaissance and mostly early baroque instrumental composition. The word derives from Italian and means to examine or to explore. The ricercar is many times used as a prelude to another piece to search out the key or mode. It may also be used to explore the permutations of a given motif. “Ricercar sopra Benedictus” would mean motives developed from a motet titled ”Benedictus”.

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An invention is a short composition for a keyboard instrument with imitative character, primarily works by Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote two sets of inventions. Each set is arranged in order of ascending key each group covering eight major and seven minor keys. repertoire: Andreas Chapel:

Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912): Elegie Jean Sibelius (1865–1957): Malinconia Op. 20 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943): Cello Sonata Op. 19 III. Andante Zorn museum:

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): String Quartet No. 1 in D Major Op. 11 I. Moderato e semplice II. Andante cantabile III. Scherzo. Allegro non tanto e con fuoco – Trio IV. Finale. Allegro giusto – Allegro vivace Korsnäsgården:

Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1555–1612): Ricercar Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): from 15 Inventions, BWV 772-786

with: Jakob Koranyí, cello, Polina Leschenko, piano, Anthony Marwood, violin, Nicolas Altstaedt, cello, Apollon Musagète Admittance: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/young people Ticket also include 2 x refreshments Duration: 3 hours incl. walk and coffee.

Rosa Huset, Mora 11.00 a.m.

Älvdalen Library 1.00 p.m.

Näktergalen - sagoopera

Ung Jazz (Young jazz)

This family show, for children in the ages between 5 and 11 years old, is based on the story by H. C. Andersen with music by Inger Wikström and Michael Bartov, director.

The Jazz Programme at Musikkonservatoriet in Falun will make several of their appreciated appearances also this year. See the jazz stars of tomorrow, both as soloists and as an ensemble. This time at the Älvdalen Library.

(The Nightingale - story opera)

Meet the mighty and cruel Emperor in China, his funny and confused marshal of the court, the youngest little maid in the palace and first and foremost the Nightingale, who changed everything with her beautiful singing. The story opera is performed by four singers and a pianist. Nordisk Kammaropera played the Nightingale at the Royal Swedish Opera and the production got praise from in press: ”A wonderful story about the freedom of the art” - Svenska Dagbladet ”The melodies, both beautiful and funny, are quickly established and guides through the story” - Expressen ”It is a musically and artistically brilliant opera performance with story a shimmer of stories and humor” - Östgöten With: The Emperor in China - Johan Wållberg Nightingale - Lisa Bauer The Maid and The Mechanical Bird - Karin Nybom Marshal of the Court Sing-Ping - Håkan Starkenberg Samuel Skönberg, piano Admittance: 100 SEK adults, 50 SEK children 1-15 years old Duration: 1 hour w/o intermission. Rosa Huset, Mora 1.00 p.m.

Näktergalen - sagoopera

with: Fifty Second Street Admittance: 100 SEK Duration: 2 hours incl. intermission. Tingshusparken, Älvdalen 4.00 p.m.

Pseudo-yoik Meet Lunds Student Singers in a spectacular and powerful outdoor concert with a repertoire with ties to the roots under ground as well as the mountaintops above. repertoire: Veljo Tormis (b. 1930): Kaksikpühendus, diptühhon Mart Saar (1882–1963): Leelo Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960): Gryning vid havet Adam de la Halle (c. 1237– 1288): Madrigal (Kom, du ljuva hjärtevän) (arr. C. Schreiber) Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867–1942): På fjället i regn Morten Johannes Lauridsen (f. 1943): O Magnum Mysterium Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b. 1963): Pseudo-Yoik with: Lunds Student Singers, Folke Alin, conductor Free admittance Duration: 30 min w/o intermission. Page 11 We reserve the right to make changes

// saturdaY 7 februarY Orsa Mission Church 5.00 p.m.

Musical Legacy Mikhail Glinka is best recognized as the creator of a national Russian opera tradition with A Life for the Tsar (1836) and Ruslan and Ludmila (1842). Before that he composed several songs and chamber music works, even though he lacked formal education. In 1830 he traveled to Italy where he met Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Bellini and Donizetti and especially the two latter came to be of great importance to him. The sextet was written while he was living at Lago Maggiore, where the air was supposed to be extra healthy. Here he fell in love with his doctors married daughter and began to court her diligently until doctor de Filippi put an end to the flirtation. It was in her honour however he started to compose the sextet that he would later finish in the autumn of 1832. Antonín Dvořák was invited in the summer 1891 to become the conductor at the National Conservatory of Music in New York, a position he took on the following autumn. The contract was for two years and extended with two additional years but he returned to Prague in the spring of 1895 stating homesickness as the primary reason. But during these two and a half years he composed several of his most famous works including the New World Symphony, the ”American quartet”, the ”American quintet” and the cello concerto. How much Dvořák was influenced by the American music he came in to contact with have been heavily debated - the second movement of the New World Symphony can easily be identified as a Spiritual, ”Goin’ home”, but at bottom, Dvořák was a true Czech and later research have shown that it was in fact a student of his that, in 1922, put English lyrics to Dvořáks melody. Americans have however said that the rhythms and, to some extent the, melodies was influenced by the new world.

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The quintet is written for a string quartet with a second viola and its the same viola that opens the first movement with a variation of what will become the main theme. The dotted rhythm in the accompaniment gives the whole movement great momentum. The same viola is playing a repeating rhythmic phrase in the following Scherzo movement - that has been said to be an imitation of the Iroquois drum rhythms - that then is taken over by the first violin and evolves it to a dance melody. As a contrast the trio part have a sighing melody. The third movement, Larghetto, a minor theme with five variations, is as Czech sad imaginable. The lively rhythms of the finale could, if you want, be regarded as American but it still has a clear Czech feel over all of it! Program: Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857): Grand Sextet in E—flat Major I. Allegro – Maestoso II. Andante III. Allegro con spirito INTERMISSION Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904): String Quintet in E—flat Major Op. 97 I. Allegro con tanto II. Allegro vivo III. Larghetto IV. Finale: Allegro giusto with: Blythe Engström, viola, Polina Leschenko, piano, Anthony Marwood, violin, Jakob Koranyí, cello, Piotr Szumiel, viola, Vlad Stanculeasa, violin, Matthew McDonald, double bass, Apollon Musagète Admittance: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/young people Duration: 1.5 hour incl. intermission.

Tingshusparken, Mora 7.30 p.m.

repertoire: Robert Schumann (1810–1856): Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 (arr. Rolf Martinsson) Göran Fröst (b. 1974) Klezmer Dances No. 2 Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 1. Allegro molto (G minor) Göran Fröst (b. 1974) Klezmer Dances No. 3 Artie Butler (b. 1972): Here’s to life (arr. Magnus Lindgren) R. Rodgers (1902–1979) & O. Hammerstein II (1895–1960): It might as well be spring (arr. Magnus Lindgren) Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994): Bôto (arr. Magnus Lindgren) Magnus Lindgren (b. 1974): Buho Chick Corea (b. 1941): Armando’s Rhumba INTERMISSION Improvisation by Gabriela Montero on themes from the audience.

Free admittance Duration: 30 min w/o intermission.

Moraparken 9.30 p.m.

with: Gabriela Montero, piano, Magnus Lindgren, saxophone, Martin Fröst, clarinet and spoken word, Dalasinfoniettan

Mistero Buffo Musicale ”Just like languages have music travelled over seas and over continents, changed and been included but also affected and conquered, not with shiny weapons but with vibrating strings, pipes and tongues, not with death but with life. People not speaking each others languages have always been able to play in the same orchestra or the same spelmanslag”.

Admittance: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/young people Duration: 2 hours incl. intermission.

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// Sunday 8 FEBRUARY Fryksås Hotel 11.00 a.m.

Orsa Mission Church 1.00 p.m.

Bach & Breakfast

Varifrån kommer musiken?

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote six suites for solo cello. They are presumed to be composed between 1717 and 1723 when he was working as kapellmeister in Köthen. A baroque suite consisted of a prelude and several dance movements. repertoire: J. S. Bach (1685–1750): Cello Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008 J. S. Bach (1685–1750): from 15 Inventions, BWV 772-786 with: Anthony Marwood, violin, Jakob Koranyí, cello, Nicolas Altstaedt, cello Admittance: 200 SEK ticket includes coffee and sandwich Duration: 1 hour w/o. intermission.

Lisen Stibeck

DAUGHTERS - Everyone is someone’s daughter

(Where does the music come from?) Music, film and initiated storytelling in a trans boundary cocktail for cineastes, piano buffs and Bergman enthusiasts. In the radio show ”Sommar” (Summer) (2004) Bergman posed the question ”Where does the music come from, why do people make music?”. The result was an avalanche of mail from the listeners and has inspired the title of this concert. Pianist Roland Pöntinen plays, among others, Mozart, Bach and Chopin in a cinematic performance that combines the music from the films of Bergman with snippets from the works. Bergman connoisseur Marie Nyreröd guides the audience through the director’s landscape and sheds some light on how he used music in his films. She also shows some pieces from her critically acclaimed documentary trilogy about Bergman and insights into their collaboration. Marie and Roland have previously performed this program in Stockholm and on Capri. Program: Music from films of Ingmar Bergman Robert Schumann (1810–1856): Piano Quintet in E—flat Major Op. 44 I. Allegro brillante II. In modo d’una marcia. Un poco largamente III. Scherzo: Molto vivace IV. Finale: Allegro ma non troppo

Lisen Stibeck will be signing her new book ”Daughters” at the exhibition on Friday February 2nd. Trio Spektra performs at 3 pm. The display is also open Saturday February 2nd between 11 am and 3 pm. Display can be seen in Mora kulturhus February 6th through March 9th.

Medverkande: Marie Nyreröd, narrator, Roland Pöntinen, piano, Gabriela Montero, piano, Apollon Musagète

Everyone is someone’s daughter. That is the starting point for the photo series by Lisen Stibeck that portraits girls and women in the ages of 16 to 25 from separate countries, continents and walks of life. Guided by her fascination with photos that show life surrounding the people we otherwise don’t see.

Admittance: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/young people Duration: 1.5 hour incl. intermission.

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Älvdalens Bio 3.00 p.m.

Frost Cinema screening of multiple Academy Award winning Disney film “Frozen” in Swedish.

Admittance: 70 SEK Duration: 1.5 hour incl. intermission.

Sollerö Church 5.00 p.m.

La Création du Monde Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock) was one of the last works of Schuberts. The soprano voice, the clarinet and the piano has equal parts and the piece could might as well be viewed as a chamber music trio. Haydns Cello Concerto in C Major is one of his early works, likely written in the first half of the 1760s. It was long presumed lost until a copy of the score was recovered by a music researcher at the Prag National Museum in 1961. It has since then become a very appreciated repertoire. All three movements are written in sonata form och their structure are in many ways similar to his third violin concerto that was written at about the same time. Darius Milhaud, that was part of the group of composers known as Les Six, spent the later years of the 1910s in

Brazil and came into contact with the popular music of the country which he used in several works including the ballet Le boeuf sur le toit (The Bull on the Roof) (1920). When he was commissioned to write a new ballet for Ballets suédois a couple years later he used his experience of the real jazz music, from a visit in Harlem, New York City, and incorporated rhythms and harmonies from jazz. The result was La création du monde (The Creation of Earth) and while it wasn’t a great success it was still publicized. Artie Shaw (1910 – 2004) was one of the prime jazz clarinet players and big band leaders in the 1930s and 1940s in competition with, among others, Benny Goodman. In the year 1940 he and his band featured in the Hollywood film Second Chorus where Fred Astaire played one of the leading parts. For the movie Shaw wrote his clarinet concerto, which rightfully should have had the title ”rhapsody”. Its a suite consisting of some boogie-woogie, some blues, some traditional big band riffs but above all a rewarding display piece for a skillful clarinettist where he step by step makes his way up to a stratospheric high C. repertoire: Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D 965 Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Cello Concerto No. 1 C Major Hob. VIIb:1 I. Moderato II. Adagio III. Allegro molto INTERMISSION Darius Milhaud (1892–1974): La Création du Monde Op. 81 Artie Shaw (1910–2004): Klarinettkonsert Medverkande: Gabriela Montero, piano, Elin Rombo, soprano, Martin Fröst, clarinet, Nicolas Altstaedt, cello, Dalasinfoniettan, Tobias Ringborg, conductor Admittance: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/young people Duration: 2 hours incl. intermission. Page 15 We reserve the right to make changes

Gabriela Montero - piano

Among the brightest stars in the world of classical music is the clarinettist, who is also Vinterfest’s resigning Artistic director, Martin Fröst. In May 2014 Martin Fröst received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, one of the world’s highest musical honours. Fröst is the first clarinettist to be given the award and joins a prestigious list of previous recipients, which includes Igor Stravinsky, Daniel Barenboim and Simon Rattle. He performs regularly with orchestras such as Concertgebouworkestern Amsterdam, Gewandhausorkestern Leipzig, Philharmonia Orchestra London, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestre National de France, Wiener Symphoniker (and conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Kungliga Filharmonikerna i Stockholm, among many). This season, Fröst is Artist in Residence at the Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Gothenburg Symphony, and London’s Wigmore Hall. Further ahead, he will be Artist in Residence for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Netherlands Philharmonic orchestras.

Born in Venezuela, Gabriela gave her first public performance at the age of five. At age eight, she made her concerto debut in her hometown of Caracas, which led to a scholarship from the government to study privately in the USA. She continued her studies under Hamish Milne at the Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating with the highest honours. Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations and unique improvisational gifts have won her a devoted following around the world. Anthony Tommasini remarked in The New York Times, “Montero’s playing had everything: crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely power…soulful lyricism…unsentimental expressivity”. In addition to her brilliant interpretations of the core piano repertoire, Gabriela is also celebrated for her ability to improvise, composing and playing new works in real time. She says, “I connect to my audience in a completely unique way – and they connect with me. Because improvisation is such a huge part of who I am, it is the most natural and spontaneous way I can express myself.”

photo: M Flange

photo: Mats Bäcker

Martin Fröst - clarinet

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Elin Rombo - soprano

Polina Leschenko was born in St Petersburg into a family of musicians and began playing the piano under her father’s guidance at the age of six. Two years later she made her solo début with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra in St Petersburg. She studied with Sergei Leschenko, Vitali Margulis, Pavel Gililov, Alexandre RabinovitchBarakovsky and Christopher Elton. Awarded a ‘Choc’ by French music magazine le Monde de la Musique, among others, for ‘her extraordinarily powerful and virtuosic playing’ and her ‘unique sensibility’, Russian pianist Polina Leschenko has worked with orchestras around the world including the Hallé, Russian National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Bern Symphony, I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, Orquesta de Euskadi, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Britten Sinfonia. Regular chamber music partners among others include Martha Argerich, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Ivry Gitlis, Julian Rachlin, Maxim Rysanov, Heinrich Schiff, Mischa Maisky and Torleif Thedéen.

The Swedish soprano Elin Rombo made her Salzburg Festival debut in the summer of 2009, singing 1st soprano in Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher and later appeared in the Deutsche Staatsoper revival at Kraftwerk Berlin. During the last seasons she has sung Agnès in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin at the Netherlands Opera, Adina in L’elisir d’amore at the Göteborg Opera, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Royal Swedish Opera as well as AscheMOND oder The Fairy Queen at Staatsoper Berlin. During the current season she returns to Berlin for the role of Cunégonde in Candide and sings Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites as well as Agnès in Written on Skin at the Royal Swedish Opera. Elin Rombo studied at the Brandon University Queen Elisabeth II in Canada and the University College of Opera in Stockholm, where she graduated in 2003. Already during her studies she made her debut as Christa in The Makropoulos Case at the Royal Swedish Opera. In 2009 Elin Rombo received the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Scholarship. In November 2013 she was named Court Singer by the Swedish King.

photo: Peter Knutson

photo: Marco Borggreve

Polina leschenko - piano

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BLYTHE ENGSTRÖM - viola

Praised for her “deeply moving” performances (Hamburger Abendblatt), winner of the 2005 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki Alina Pogostkina performs at many of the world’s most renowned festivals and concert venues. She has collaborated with conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gustavo Dudamel, Sakari Oramo, David Zinman, Jonathan Nott, Paavo Järvi, Michael Sanderling, David Afkham, Robin Ticciati and Thomas Hengelbrock. An ardent chamber musician, Pogostkina has worked with musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Jurij Basjmet, Gidon Kremer and Menahem Pressler. Appearing in numerous radio and television recordings and broadcasts, Pogostkina’s passion for contemporary music is evident in her acclaimed recording of Pēteris Vasks’ complete violin works, released in Spring 2012. Born in St. Petersburg, Alina Pogostkina studied with Antje Weithaas at Berlin’s Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. She plays on the 1717 ‘Sasserno’ violin of Antonio Stradivari, kindly provided by the Nippon Foundation.

Blythe Teh Engstroem, the American violinist and violist did the majority of her studies at Indiana University in Bloomington where she studied with Nelli Shkolnikova, Mimi Zweig and Josef Gingold for the violin and Atar Arad for the viola. She later continued her studies with Andres Cardenes in Pittsburgh. Blythe is a passionate chamber musician and has had the honor of collaborating with many artists including Menahem Pressler, Yuja Wang, Lisa Batiashvili, Renaud Capuçon, Leonidas Kavakos, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Kim Kashkashian, Lawrence Power, Nobuko Imai, Gautier Capuçon, Gary Hoffman and the Ebene Quartet. She is currently a member of the Serafino Quartet. She was instrumental in creating the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and works closely with the orchestra’s music director, Gábor Takács-Nagy. The Chamber Orchestra tours regularly with such prominent artists as Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell and Martin Fröst, and made its first recording with Maxim Vengerov for EMI. She has been the Chamber Orchestra’s concertmaster, and currently leads the viola section.

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ALINA POGOSTKINA - Violin

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ROLAND PÖNTINEN - piano

“A violinist whose rare gift is to become, rather than perform, the music he plays” (The Guardian), Pekka Kuusisto is internationally renowned as both soloist and director, and for his fresh approach to the repertoire. The 2014/15 season includes debuts with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig and Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. He also directs The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen on a tour of South America. He also joins forces with dancers Kaari Martin (flamenco) and Minna Tervamäki (ballet) and pianist Heini Kärkkäinen for a choreographed interpretation of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, to be performed at the 2015 Dresdner Musikfestspiele. Kuusisto regularly directs ensembles from the violin, including the Mahler, Saint Paul, Australian, and Irish Chamber orchestras. His recent chamber partners include Iiro Rantala, Anne Sofie von Otter, Kimmo Pohjonen, Nicolas Altstaedt and Kuusisto’s traditional music group, The Luomu Players. In 2013, Pekka Kuusisto was the recipient of the Nordic Council Music Prize, with the adjudicators describing him as “a violinist in the absolute elite”.

Since his debut with the Royal Stockolm Philharmonic in 1981, Roland Pöntinen has performed with major orchestras throughout the world. He has been the frequent guest of festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier and La Roque d’Antheron and worked with conductors like Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leif Segerstam, Evgeny Svetlanov to name a few. Highlights include performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra in Paris and London, Los Angeles Philharmonic in the Hollywood Bowl, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as appearances at the London Proms where he has played both the Grieg Piano Concerto and the Ligeti Piano Concerto. He is also active as a composer and his Blue Winter was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 1998. His Danse serpentine for clarinet and piano had it’s world premiere at Wigmore Hall in 2010 with Martin Fröst. Pöntinen is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and in 2001 he received the Litteris et Artibus – a royal medal for recognition of eminent skills in the artistic field.

photo: Mats Bäcker

photo: Kaapo Kamu

PEKKA KUUSISTO - violin

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MAGNUS LINDGREN - saxophone

Grammy-nominated Ukrainian-British violist and conductor Maxim Rysanov has established himself as one of the world’s most vibrant and charismatic musicians. He is principally known for his performances as a violist, guest of the crème of international music scene such as BBC Last Night of the Proms, Edinburgh Festival, Salzburg Festival. He now combines his viola performance with a career as a conductor. Maxim has long been recognised by the international music scene and his list of prizes affirm that status. These include the Classic FM Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award and the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Award, as well as the Geneva, Lionel Tertis and Valentino Bucchi competitions. In the 2014/15 season his recording output is further extended with a new release on BIS of Martinu viola repertoire in collaboration with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek, Alexander Sitkovetsky and Katya Apekisheva, as well as a recording of the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with Vilde Frang on Parlophone. Maxim also featured as both soloist and conductor on the debut disc of composer Dobrinka Tabakova (ECM) in 2013 a disc that reached number 2 in the UK classical charts and was shortlisted for a Grammy award in 2014.

Magnus Lindgren is a multi-talented creator of music. His ability to express himself on the tenorsax, clarinet or flute wears the sign of a real master. However, he is also able to explore interesting music on several other instruments. Multi is a good expression of this gifted person. As a composer he has a great potential to fulfil his own creative impulses. He dresses them in a melodical costume, optimal for the stylish frame that is proper for the moment. Last but certainly not least; the obvious masterclass in the musically versatile arsenal of Magnus Lindgren is his brilliant emotion for arranging music. The greatness lies in the way he puts together the sublime samples of notes, the sound colours, the rhythm figures, the harmony sequences. In Magnus Lindgren´s way of looking at it, the improvisational moment is the centre of the musical universe. The established jazz quartet offers generous possibilities to spread a creative flow. Magnus is steadily returning to that kind of chamber musicial cooperation. He proved it again in the cd-production Four, released 2012. The result gave lots of acclaimed media respons and also a Swedish Grammy nomination.

Foto: Lennart Stenberg

Foto: Irina & Pavel Kozhevnikov

MAXIM RYSANOV - viola

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NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT - cello

Anthony Marwood is one of the most distinguished violinists of his generation. Internationally renowned both as soloist and director, he collaborates regularly with many eminent ensembles around the world. These include the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy and the Irish Chamber Orchestra (of which he was Artistic Director). As soloist he has worked with eminent conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Douglas Boyd, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Marin Alsop, David Robertson, Martyn Brabbins and Ilan Volkov. Born in London, Anthony Marwood studied with Emanuel Hurwitz at the Royal Academy of Music, David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music, and took lessons from Sandor Vegh and Daniel Phillips at IMS Prussia Cove. The Royal Philharmonic Society named Anthony Marwood ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ in 2006. He is the co-Artistic Director of the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival and teaches annually at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont.

German/French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is a versatile artist being equally at home at performing classical repertoire and commissioning new music. Nicolas was one of Boris Pergamenschikow’s last students in Berlin, where he continued his studies with Eberhard Feltz. After having won several international competitions and a “Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship” in 2009, he was awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2010 as part of which he performed with the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival. As a BBC New Generation Artist 2010-2012 he has performed with all BBC Orchestras, at the Proms and the Wigmore Hall. Highlights in the past include concerts with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestras Berlin, Stuttgart and Helsinki, Melbourne- and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, Bamberger Symphoniker, and the Munich, Zurich and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras including conductors Vladimir Fedoseyev, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Andrew Davis, Mario Venzago, Andrej Boreyko, Vassily Sinaisky, Adam Fischer, Dennis Russell Davies and Alexander Shelley.

Foto: Marco Borggreve

Foto: Pia Johnson

ANTHONY MARWOOD - violin

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MATTHEW MCDONALD - double bass

The Swedish cellist Jakob Koranyi has firmly established himself on the classical music scene as one of Europe’s most interesting young soloists. Acclaimed for his commanding virtuosity and passion for diverse and innovative programmes, he has toured Europe extensively performing in recital as well as a soloist in Vienna, Cologne, Hamburg, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Stockholm and Luxembourg to name a few. Jakob is also well known for his work with artists of other disciplines. While still a student, Jakob Koranyi won first prizes in all national music competitions in Sweden, most notably the prestigious Soloist Prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Part of the award was the recording and release of his critically acclaimed recital CD “Jakob Koranyi, cello” featuring works by Britten, Ligeti and Brahms. On the strength of this recording Jakob was labelled “a force to be reckoned with” by The Strad Magazine

As a child Matthew McDonald was actually interested in playing only jazz and rock music. His parents gave him an electric bass for Christmas – but only under the condition that he would also learn to play the double bass. Matthew quickly fell in love with the big instrument’s dark, mellow sound. In 1996 he began his studies with Max McBride at the Canberra School of Music, later continuing with Kees Boersma in Sydney, where he completed his bachelor’s (BMus) degree in 2000. From 2000 to 2001 he was a scholar of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy, and then was immediately engaged as deputy principal bass of the Danish National Orchestra. He relinquished that position in order to prepare for his concert exam with Esko Laine at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin. Engagements followed as principal bass with the Ensemble Modern (2003-06) and with Berlin’s Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester and Deutsches SymphonieOrchester before he came to the Berliner Philharmoniker. As a chamber player, Matthew McDonald is a regular visitor to the Open Chamber Music seminar at Prussia Cove in Cornwall.

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photo: Anna-Lena Ahlström

JACOB KORANYÍ - cello

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FREDRIK EKDAHL - bassoon

Jasper de Waal gained world-wide fame as principal and solo horn player with of The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam as well as with his outstanding performances when playing with numerous other orchestras and renowned musical ensembles. His CD-recordings have all been favorably received. Recently, the master horn player broadened his focus and made a successful start as a conductor. Because of his longstanding expertise and his great knowledge of the repertoire, combined with the skills he displays when passing on his enthusiasm and passion to musicians, his conducting career is bound to be of international interest. Both audiences and orchestras will be pleasantly surprised by the performances of this solo player who is also a conductor. Meanwhile, Jasper has conducted projects at orchestras of international high-standing such as Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, (Brass) Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra , Filarmonica Cluj, Het Gelders Orkest and (Brass) The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

Fredrik Ekdahl is solo bassoonist in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and also teacher at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm from where he also got his soloist diploma 2003. He received the second prize in the prestigious Gillet-Fox Competition 2006. Alongside SRSO, Frederik regularly visits orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Bernhard Haitink and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. He is also a engaged as guest lecturer and has given master classes at Musikhochschule Stuttgart and the Music Conservatory in Beijing. In autumn 2011, Frederik premiered Jesper Nordinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo concert Vicinities with SRSO and Daniel Harding. In the spring of 2014 it was time for a new performance, this time together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Frederik is a frequent guest at the Chamber Music Festival in Utrecht and he plays regularly chamber music with Janine Jansen, among others. Since 2014, Frederik is a guest teacher at Musikhochschule Mannheim.

photo: Jens Ekberg

photo: Eefje Simons

JASPER DE WAAL - horn

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Bengt Forsberg - piano

vlad stanculeasa - violin

Bengt Forsberg has a somewhat special position when it comes to Swedish music. He is a very popular and frequently engaged chamber musician and among his regular collaborators are the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, cellist Mats Lidström and violinist Nils-Erik Sparf, with whom he has recorded numerous CDs, to name a few. Along side with von Otter, he tour regularly around the world and many of their recordings have won prestigious awards. He is also often engaged as soloist and has performed with many major Swedish and foreign symphony orchestras. Forsberg’s repertoire is unusually wide and he draws forgotten works in the spotlight - unusual compositions by famous and unknown composers.

Born in Craiova, Romania, Vlad Stanculeasa studied in the “International Menuhin Music Academy”, Gstaad, Switzerland, with Alberto Lysy and Liviu Prunaru. Later on he obtained his masters in the Conservatoire de Lausanne with Pierre Amoyal. Winner in the “George Enescu” International Violin Competition, he performed together with Maxim Vengerov, James Maddox, Ettore Causa, Viktoria Mullova, Per Enoksson, Philippe Graffin or Ana Chumachenco. He has been a Concert Master of the Kammerorchester Basel and since 2010 a Concert Master of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. After his recording on RCA Red Seal, Strad Magazine wrote: “ Stanculeasa is never in doubt in this very demanding program – his picture-painting in the Impressions d’enfance, in particular, is both subtle and brilliant. He plays a Sanctus Serafin from 1739 on loan from the “Tharice” Foundation, Switzerland.

photo: Daniel Garpebring

photo: Ettore causa / grafik: daniel garpebring

Bengt is the Artistic director of chamber music in All Saints Church in Stockholm, as well as a frequent guest at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

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APOLLON MUSAGÈTE

Tobias Ringborg is one of the most prolific musical talents to emerge from Sweden in recent years. He is equally at home on the concert podium as a conductor and violinist, as well as in the opera house. His career started in 1994 when he, as a violinist, won the prestigious Swedish Soloist Prize. The same year he graduated with the highest honours from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and went on to study at the Juilliard School in New York, graduating in 1996. In 2000, Tobias Ringborg decided to expand his musical career after winning a conducting competition in Helsingborg, and has since conducted all Swedish and many Scandinavian orchestras. In 2010 Tobias Ringborg was awarded the Herbert Blomstedt Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2011 he was elected a member of that academy (founded in 1771 by King Gustavus III).

The Apollon Musagète Quartet was selected by BBC Radio 3 as 2012/13 New Generation Artists and by Vienna’s Konzerthaus and the Musikverein as their 2010/11 Rising Stars. In January 2014 the ensemble won a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. Highlights for the 2014/15 season include re-invitations to London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Louvre in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and deSingel in Antwerp. Festivals such as the Brighton Festival, Chopin Festival in Warsaw, Würzburg Mozartfest and Vinterfest in Sweden also welcome the Quartet. In January 2015 the ensemble embarks on a tour of Switzerland with recitals in Lucerne, Geneva and Fribourg. Recent engagements have included appearances in Izmir and Istanbul and the opening concert at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Centre in the Polish town of Lusławice. The ensemble’s debut CD received the CD of the Month award by Radio Stephansdom Vienna and the ORF Pasticcio Prize.

During 2015, Tobias finishes a three-year term as Principal conductor and Artistic advisor for Dalasinfoniettan.

The Apollon Musagète Quartet consists of Paweł Zalejski, violin, Bartosz Zachłod, violin, Poitr Szumieł, viola and Poitr Skweres, cello.

photo: Marco Borggreve

photo: Ryan Garrison

TOBIAS RINGBORG - conductor

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Nordic Chamber Opera

Lund Student Singers, LSS, was founded in 1831 and is one of the oldest choirs in Sweden. Despite its long history, the choir has maintained its vitality over the years thanks to a combination of professional and dedicated choral directors and invigorating turnover of singers – a typical feature of a university-based choir. Today the choir counts about 50 active singers. The concert traditions are of course long, and the citizens of Lund feels a special ownership of these traditions: The nationally televised Spring concert the 1st of May and the popular Christmas concerts together with Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Worth mentioning is also the collaboration with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra that lead to both exciting concerts and a CD production. LSS has on the Naxos label made 5 very different CD productions of which 4 of them has sold more than 40 000 copies each. The choir has both national and international ambitions. This is reflected in the choir’s repertoire, which is based on the responsibility to maintain and share from the vast cultural Swedish and Nordic songs treasure-box to the international audience, as well as bringing the international contemporary male choir literature to the Swedish audience. Lately, the choir has visited Vilnius – June 2009 – and China in the summer of 2010 in connection with the World Choir Games.

Nordic Chamber Opera was founded 1980 by Inger Wikström, swedish conductor, composer and pianist. The singers are young opera stars with great experience and the orchestra is Nordic Chamber Orchestra,- musicians from the Royal Opera in Stockholm. Nordic Chamber Opera played for the first time at Confidencen, Ulriksdal Castle Theatre 1980, where they performed Händel´s Alcina. After that the company has played many summers at Confidencen and a.o. performed following operas. Bellini´s La Sonnambula, Haydn´s Il mondo della luna, Rossini´s La Cenerentola, Donizetti´s Don Pasquale, Wikström´s The outlaw and La mère coupable, and Mozart´s La finta semplice, The magic flute, Figaro´s marriage, Cosi van tutte, and Don Giovanni. Nordic Chamber Opera also go on tour all over Sweden with short versions of the classic operas, playing for schools. The company also presents operas written for children such as Aladdin, Peter Pan and Junker Nils based on a story by Astrid Lindgren. The worldpremière of The Confession of a fool, with music by Inger Wikström and text by August Strindberg, took place in the Vasa Theatre in collaboration with the Royal Opera in Stockholm 2002. It was also performed in Paris in Cité Internationale des Arts 2006.

Photo: Martin Hellström

photo: Lunds Studentsångare

Lund Student Singers

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Vinterfolket

fifty second street

Five fantastic musicians from Dalasinfoniettan represents the string ensemble Vinterfolket. The ensemble consists for example of not less than three Riksspelmän (National Folk Musician) and concertmasters. Vinterfolket consists of Anders Jakobsson, violin, Johanna Tysk, violin, Elisabeth Lagergren, violin, Staffan Eriksson, violin, and Jan Anders Ernlund, double bass.

The Jazz Programme at the Falun Conservatory of Music return (Musikkonservatoriet Falun). The sextet consists of five students and Lars Ekstrom who is standing in on bass and is the head teacher of the program. This year’s ensemble is Fifty Second Street. The name is not taken from Billy Joel’s Grammy awarded album with the same name. Neither of British jazz/funk/R&B group with the same name. No, the name is taken after the famous 52nd Street in Manhattan in New York which during the 1930’s-1950’s was the essence of New York’s jazz scene and where virtually every jazz star appeared. It is not impossible that these jazz talents will one day perform somewhere on the same street in the future. Fifty Second Street is (från left to right): Anton Hägg Meijer, drums, Alexander Dellerhagen, saxophone, Lars Ekström, double bass, Amanda Tidare, vocals, Jonas Brodin, trombone and Pär Holmberg, piano.

photo: Ing-marie a. litsgård / design: Jonas Martinsson

photo: per eriksson / design: jonas Martinsson

It is not the first, nor the last, time that musicians from Dalasinfoniettan join together to form new, exciting constellations. Being available for different types of chamber music assignments is in fact included in the musicians’ contracts. For example, the Dalecarlia Clarinet Quintet, which in 2014 visited New Zealand, went on a month long tour whose main purpose was to represent Sweden and especially Dalecarlia on the other side of the planet.

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MARIE NYRERÖD - presenter

jonas forsSell - presenter

Marie Nyreröd has worked as a cultural reporter on Swedish Television (SVT) for over twenty five years and have produced all kinds of cultural programs. 2004 she made a series of documentaries about and with Ingmar Bergman (”Bergman och filmen”, ”Bergman och teatern” and ”Bergman och Fårö”). The films were shown at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the International Emmy Award. The collaboration with Ingmar Bergman also led to a friendship that lasted until Ingmar Bergman passed away in 2007.

The composer Jonas Forssell was also a presenter at Vinterfest 2010, 2012 and 2013. In the beginning, Jonas was mainly active as a theater musician, but has more recently become known for having composed ten operas - some of them awarded internationally. For example, the comedy “Riket är Ditt” of Vadstena Academy in 1991, The Drottningholm Palace Theatre’s first ordered composition in 200 years. This was written in 1999 about the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus after a book by Magnus Florin or Death and the Maiden, which was premiered at the Malmö Opera in 2008 with libretto by the ChileanAmerican writer Ariel Dorfman after his much acclaimed play with the same name. On the compisition list is also chamber music, songs, orchestral compositions and a clarinet concerto. 2012, he was a weekend composer with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm. He is currently working on completing a doctoral work on the opera’s text at Stockholm University of the Arts.

photo: SVT

photo: Jan-Olav Wedin

Over the past five years, Marie Nyreröd has been the project manager and producer for the literature program Babel on SVT.

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DÄR KULTUR & SKIDÅKNING MÖTS

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MORA PARKEN

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2011-02-11 Concert in Mora Church

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Anders Zorn

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2010-02-19 Torchlight parade

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GUARDIAN of the festival

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MORA FÖRSAMLING

Nordqvist, David Lundblad & press texts from each artist’s website/agency. Translators: Mikael Jorhult & Jonas Martinsson Layout: Jonas Martinsson & Daniel Garpebring

buy your tickets here Contact Siljan Tourism on +46 (0)248 79 72 00 or visit the Tourist Center in Leksand, Rättvik, Mora or Orsa. They will also help you with questions concerning travel and accommodation. On our website www.vinterfest.se we have an online ticket web shop, but it is in Swedish only.

Good to know Our concerts are held in different types of venues. Many of the venues are not used to host concerts, whereas the venues are not always suited for large public and persons with disability problems. If you have a certain need, contact us in advance so that we can prepare for your concert visit. We accept wheel chairs on every concert. Hearing aid is available in the concerts in Mora church, the Mora Park and Älvdalen church. We open the doors for the concert 30 minutes before start. Sometimes there will be a late opening due to preperations. At the bottom of the ticket you have the duration of the concert, there you also see what your ticket includes. During Winterfest, a help desk is located at Mora cultural center Wednesday - Friday from 9:00 to 18:00 and Saturday 11:00 to 15:00.

contact Vinterfest is arranged by Musik i Dalarna in collaboration with the municipalities of Mora, Orsa and Älvdalen. Contact Musik i Dalarna on +46 (0)23-77 40 50 or email us on info@musikidalarna.se Project Manager of Vinterfest is David Lundblad +46 (0)76-396 94 33 • david.lundblad@musikidalarna.se Page 31 We reserve the right to make changes

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Fryksås Hotel

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Sollerö Church

Vinterfest is arranged by Musik i Dalarna and the municipalities of Mora, Orsa and Älvdalen