Vinterfest 2014 Program in English by Dalasinfoniettan

PROGRAM IN ENGLISH 2014

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Dear Audience! I was eight years old when I first was seated in the parterre in the Stockholm Concert Hall. When the orchestra began to play I was overwhelmed by the warmth of the strings. The light brilliance and silvery richness of the violins, the dark golden timbre of the cellos and the rich depth of the double basses took me by storm. It was a spiritual and physical sensation, something that I had never experienced and that would stay with me for the rest of my life. The musical warmth, that only exists between freezing cold and sizzling heat, has since then moved me deeply. Music reflects this spectrum of temperatures and in the tension of the contrasts the question what life is all about arises. How life is created, from a physical and biological perspective: the sun, the water and the photosynthesis, all well-known and possible to explain. The mystery with our inner life, everything that touch us and give us a sense of love, belonging and meaning of being alive is on the other hand impossible to explain. The need to describe, understand, question and experience this mystery is a primordial human urge that so often finds its expression in music.

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We musicians all have a burning desire to, in the darkness of winter, give you â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the audience, musical experiences and to meet each other in warmth, euphoria and drama. The warmth of Brahms, the desolate landscapes of Schnittke, the melancholy of Shostakovich, the joy of life of Mozart and the divinity of Bach is just but a select pick from this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program that guarantees that there will be something for each and every one.

Torleif Thedéen - cello

Cellist Torleif Thedéen has spent the last 25 years playing on all continents, performing with important orchestras like London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham SO, BBC Philharmonic, the Hallé Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Dresden Staatskapelle, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Chech Philharmonic, Oslo-Stockholm-Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and many others. Thedéen has regularly worked with conductors like Salonen, Järvi, Venzago, Saraste, Litton, Oramo, Vänskä, Elder, V.Neuman, Segerstam, Berglund, Welser-Möst, DePreist, Rozhdestvensky, J.V Steen and others alike. Being a passionate chamber musician, Thedéen often performs in important venues like the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Schauspielhaus in Berlin a.o., and he takes part in festivals like the Schleswig-Holstein, Salzburg, Utrecht, Prag Spring, Dubrovnik, Helsinki Festival, Kuhmo, Bath, Bordeaux, Bergen and the Verbier Festival. Torleif Thedéen has also (since 1986) been very active in the recording studio, recording for labels like BIS, CPO, DECCA, EMI and Deutsche Grammophon. He has recorded the complete Schnittke works for cello, Britten’s three Solo Suites as well as Concertos by Dvořák, Lalo, Schumann, Elgar, Saint-Saëns, Kabalevsky, Bloch, Kokkonen and Shostakovich.

Wales. Julian Rachlin and Itamar Golan joined Thedéen in the Vienna Musikverein in Beethovens Triple Concerto (Wiener Symphoniker). He has also returned to the Swedish Radio S.O. and to the Royal Stockholm Philh. Furthermore he performed with the Hallé Orchestra, City of Birmingham SO, Stuttgart Philh., Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Phil. In addition he has given a number of chamber concerts in Europe (London/Wigmore Hall, Berlin, Stockholm and Carnegie Hall. In 2011 Thedéen replaced Heinrich Schiff with ORF/RSO Sinfonieorchester in Vienna, playing Bloch Schelomo. Thedéen performs regularly with fellow musicians Janine Jansen, Martin Fröst, Julian Rachlin, Maxim Rysanov, Lawrence Power, Roland Pöntinen, Itamar Golan and Polina Leschenko. Since 1996 Thedéen is professor at Edsberg Music institute/Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he himself received his main and most important education from professor Frans Helmerson. 2003 Thedéen was awarded the medal Litteris et Artibus by the Swedish Academy of Music.

With the two Shostakovich concertos he won the 1995 Cannes Classical Award at MIDEM. The release of J.S. Bach Suites for solo cello got tremendous reviews. The BBC Music Magazine made it the “Editors Choice”. In 2012 Thedéen joined Janine Jansen on a DECCA recording with works by Schönberg and Schubert. Recent seasons includes tours to Japan (Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra/De Preist), concerts with the London PO/Venzago in Royal Festival Hall and the BBC National Orchestra of Page 3 Changes might appear

The host orchestra of Vinterfest

orchestral concerts they also take part in opera or musical performances. Since 2005 Dalasinfoniettan hosts the international chamber music festival Vinterfest and since 2011 the orchestra also hosts Swedish summer festival Musik vid Siljan. Since autumn of 2012, Tobias Ringborg holds the position as chief conductor and artistic advisor of Dalasinfoniettan. Read more about Dalasinfoniettan and Tobias Ringborg: www.dalasinfoniettan.se facebook.com/dalasinfoniettan

Photo: Martin Litens

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 Dalarna 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 chamber music programmes to local organizers. Dalasinfoniettan regularly invites internationally acclaimed soloists and guest conductors and besides

Violin 1 Anders Jakobsson, concert master, Staffan Eriksson, Håkan Svedell, Ewa Gammelgård, Elin Rubinsztein, Elsa Wikström Violin 2 Elisabeth Lagergren, Manu Berkeljon, Maud Norman, Johanna Tysk, Erika Lindgren Viola Mats Hedrén, Anders Norén, Anna Raihle, Thomas Ringqvist Cello Tomas Blanch, Beata Söderberg Quin, 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, Ivan Jurkovic French horn Christina Landén, Johan Lindstrand Trumpet Per Larsson Tysk, Mats Heinemann Timpani David Kangasniemi Harp Clara Heinemann Celesta Henrik Alinder

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THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY Sollerö Church at 6.00 pm

To let music express humanism, the great questions of life and the human need for contact and communication, are all existential topics. They are also topics common in the music of Shostakovich. The String Quartet No. 8 is one of the few pieces which Dmitri Shostakovich composed outside of Russia. He wrote the quartet in the ‘60s when he visited Dresden in DDR. Officially he was there to compose the music for a Soviet film that dealt with the postwar ruins of that very city with the very same ruins as a backdrop. The quartet is often called the “Dresden Quartet”. The music, in five movements, with a gripping dark character is performed attacca. In the second movement a Jewish theme is found that Shostakovich used for the first time in his Piano Trio No. 2. In this piece he laments the total destruction of the city of Dresden. Joseph Haydn wrote no less than forty-five pieces for piano trio. Common for them all is the equilibristic piano and his trios are among many considered, besides the ones of Mozart, to be the most brilliant pieces preceding the ones of Beethoven. The Piano Quintet in F Minor by Johannes Brahms has a rather colourful background. Brahms first wrote the piece as a string quintet but felt dissatisfied with it and hence rewrote it as a sonata for two pianos. The premiere performance of this sonata was performed by himself and the pianist Carl Tausig. Eventually the piece gained its present form as a piano quintet, as it is best known at present. What the original string quintet sounded like we know very little of, since Brahms had the original score destroyed.

Jakob Koranyí. Photo: Anna-Lena Ahlström

The Human Voice

Repertoire J Haydn: Trio No. 43 in C Major Hob. XV:27 (1776) D Sjostakovitj: String Quartet No. 8 Op. 110 (1960) INTERMISSION J Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor Op. 34 (1865) With Malin Broman, violin, Jakob Koranyí, cello, Polina Leschenko, piano, Boris Brovtsyn, violin, Maxim Rysanov, viola, Lawrence Power, viola Torleif Thedéen, cello, Simon Crawford Philips, piano Presenter Sixten Nordström Admission: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/youth

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FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY The Mission Church in Orsa at 1.00 pm

Light and Darkness César Franck’s Sonata in A Major was written as a wedding gift for the thirty-one year old violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. The sonata was delivered to Ysaÿe in the morning of the wedding day where upon a short rehearsal with Ysaÿe and the pianist Léontine Bordes-Pène, who was a guest at the wedding, led to the premiere performance of the Sonata the same evening for an excited and expectant audience of wedding guests. Alfred Schnittke’s Piano Quintet does not share the same positive sentiment and outlook on life. He wrote his quintet in memory of his diseased mother. Schnittke was stylistically very conscious and meticulously worked with the development of his own personal expression. In the Piano Quintet the dark and almost mystic feeling of grief and longing for his mother is extra tangible. Repertoire C Franck: Sonata in A Major (1886) A Schnittke: Piano Quintet (1972-1976) With Lawrence Power, viola, Polina Leschenko, piano, Malin Broman, violin, Boris Brovtsyn, violin, Jakob Koranyí, cello, Simon Crawford-Philips, piano Presenter Gregor Zubicky Admission: 260 SEK adults, 130 SEK children/youth

Exhibitions at Mora Kulturhus during Vinterfest 2014

Vernissage at Mora Kulturhus Friday 7 February at 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm. Exhibitions are open 7 February to 3 March.

Albin Jarl

Dance artist and ballet master Photographs by Berta Hallgren from the collection of Mora Bygdearkiv

Hot Spring Fashion

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Mstislav Rostropovich, with a very demanding solo as a consequence.

FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY Mora Church at 6.00 pm

Repertoire W A Mozart: Overture to “Der Schauspieldirektor” K. 486 (1786) F Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Piano MWV O 4 (1823) INTERMISSION F Schubert: An Sylvia (1826), Die Forelle (1817), Nacht und Träume (1823), Gruppe aus dem Tartarus (1817), Erlkönig (1815), An die Musik (1817) D Shostakovich : Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major Op. 107

Hot Spring On February 7th 1786 Emperor Joseph II announced a competition where a German “Singspiel” was to be pitted against an Italian opera. The assignment was to write a short one-act opera. The Italian entry was an opera buffa, Prima la musica, poi le parole, by the composer none other than Antonio Salieri. The German entry Der Schauspieldirektor was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The competition was held in the Orangery at Schönbrunn Palace. There were two stages facing each other. Mozart’s opera was performed first and Salieri, who was Hofkapellmeister, performed second. Salieri’s opera was not just twice as long; he also came out on top in that duel with twice as much money as Mozart. The overture to Der Schauspieldirektor has many similarities both in character and tonality to the overture to Le nozze di Figaro, composed by Mozart later that year.

With Boris Brovtsyn, violin, Polina Leschenko, piano, Michael Weinius, tenor, Torleif Thedéen, cello, Dalasinfoniettan, Daniel Raiskin, conductor Presenter Sixten Nordström Admission: 320 SEK adults, 160 SEK children/youth Seats with obstructed view with picture screen: 180 SEK

Torchlight parade from the Church to MoraParken

Just like Mozart and Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert’s life was rather short. Despite this his production spans in excess of ten almost complete symphonies, church music, chamber music, opera, piano music and at least about six hundred Lieder. At the opening concert of Vinterfest 2014 some of his most beloved songs will be performed in an arrangement for singer and orchestra. The highly dramatic first cello concerto by Shostakovich, with its eruptive culminations, originally was written for Page 8 Changes might appear

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Felix Mendelssohn was only fourteen years old when he wrote his fantastic Double Concerto for Violin and Piano. He wrote the concerto for himself and his childhood friend, the violinist Eduard Rietz. By that time he already had more than a hundred pieces to his production. Another three years would expire though before he composed the overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY

SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY

MoraParken at 10.00 pm

The Zorn Museum, The Andreas Chapel and The Fridhems Church, Mora. Starting 10.30 am (11.45 am, 1.00 pm)

DeFrosted Friends Gregor Zubicky and Dan Laurin gather their friends for a casual evening filled with music, artists and audience. Enjoy good food and drinks while listening to the fantastic music. Admission: 400 SEK for all (meal included: A plate of nicely put cold cuts, served during concert. Drinks not included.)

Triptyk - Relay Concert in Three Stages Three concerts in three hours. A new event in this year’s Vinterfest is the “Relay Concert” where you as the audience is given a chance to listen to three concerts in different environments. Between each concert there will be a shorter stroll, together with a guide, where also a smaller snack with local flavor will be served. The Zorn Museum A Corelli: La Folia Op. 5 No. 12 (1700) J S Bach: Flute Sonata in B Minor BWV 1030 Dan Laurin, recorder, Hidemi Suzuki, cello, Anna Paradiso, harpsichord The Andreas Chapel J S Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 BWV 1012 Jakob Koranyí, cello The Fridhems Church B Martinu: Three Madrigals (1947) G F Handel/J Halvorsen: Passacaglia Boris Brovtsyn, violin, Maxim Rysanov, viola

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Admission: 280 SEK for all (the price includes the three concerts and a snack and a beverage between each concert).

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SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY

Rosa huset (The Pink House), Mora at 11.00 am and 1.00 pm

The Älvdalen Library at 1.00 pm

Children’s and Family Concert: Musical Fairytale Landscape from the Romeo & Juliet Choir A full musical experience with members of the Romeo & Juliet Choir. With song and beautiful renaissance costumes they transform virtually any room into a beautiful sounding fairy tale landscape. Each performance by the choir is unique and tailored to the time and place.

Young Jazz at the Library A favorite in the replay when the Jazz Education at the Falun Conservatory of Music will return upon request from Älvdalen audience. Admission: 70 SEK Club Cyan: Olga Lantz, vocals, Kalle Syri, double bass, Jonas Brodin, trombone, André Lindblad, guitar, William Coleman, drums

Admission: 70 SEK for all

Photo: Urban Wedin

Jazzabstinens: Vendela Blomgren, vocals, Gabriel Nyberg, guitar, Alexander Dellerhagen, tenor saxophone, Philip Östblom, drums, Kalle Syri, double bass, Albin Westerlind, piano (not in photo)

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SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY

The Älvdalen Cinema at 3.00 pm

Orsa Grönklitt, The Bear Park Entrance at 4.00 pm

Bland Tistlar (Among Thistles)

In Motion among Wild Animals

A film about the power of music and what it is like being too small at a music summer camp, living in a caravan, with a somewhat creepy field of thistles in your backyard.

Salt Quartet, an ensemble from Dalasinfoniettan, meets Joseph Sturdy. He is the founder and Artistic Director for the Focus Dance, a dance company which this year celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. Here he creates a powerful and suggestive experience together with the ensemble and two dancers in “In Motion among Wild Animals”. In cooperation with Dans i Dalarna

Directed by Uzi and Lotta Geffenblad. Admission: 50 SEK for all

Repertoire Music by Isang Yun, W A Mozart and M Arnold With Choreography Joseph Sturdy Victoria Roberts, dancer, Solène Nusbaum, dancer Salt Quartet Inken Menck, oboe, Manu Berkeljon, violin Anders Norén, viola, Tomas Blanch, cello Presenter Sixten Nordström

Photo: Per Eriksson

One hour performance without intermission Admission: 260 SEK adults, 130 SEK children/youth

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SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY

Sollerö Church at 5.00 pm

MoraParken at 9.00 pm

Contrasts

Forget About the Moonlight

Music from four centuries meets in a concert where the contrasts create distance as well as intimacy. The music seldom feels as vivid as when the link between now and then is revealed, and one as a listener can let ones senses be filled with the sweet sounds of many centuries.

Famous Swedish jazz singer Rigmor Gustafsson with a trio meet Dalasinfoniettan in an unforgettable evening where the love of music is in focus. With Rigmor Gustafsson, vocals Calle Rasmusson, drums Martin Höper, bass Jonas Östholm, piano Dalasinfoniettan Jonas Nydesjö, conductor

Repertoire F Geminiani: Cello Sonata Op. 5 (1746) A Corelli: Sonata in F Major Op. 5 No. 4 (1700) S Prokofiev: From Romeo and Juliet Op. 64 (1935) INTERMISSION A Pärt: Spiegel im spiegel (1978) A Dvôrák: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major Op. 87 (1890)

Admission: 260 SEK adults, 130 SEK children/youth

With Hidemi Suzuki, cello, Anna Paradiso, harpsichord, Dan Laurin, recorder, Lawrence Power, viola, Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano, Maxim Rysanov, viola, Malin Broman, violin, Torleif Thedéen, cello, Polina Leschenko, piano Presenter Gregor Zubicky

Anna Paradiso & Dan Laurin. Photo: Pelle Piano

Photo: Jörg Grosse Gelderman

Admission: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/youth

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SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY The Mission Church in Orsa at 1.00 pm

The Premordial Force of Russia Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was not only considered one of the greatest pianists of his time, he was also one of the great composers of Russian national romanticism influenced by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korskakov. His piano trio Trio Élégiaque No. 2 Op. 9 is written in memoriam of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The three movements Moderato – Quasi variazione – Allegro risoluto show off a great virtuosity in the musicians but in the third and final movement it is primarily the piano that constantly challenges and with a continuous escalating intensity takes us on a musical adventure. Repertoire S Rachmaninoff: Trio Élégiaque No. 2 Op.9 (1893) With Malin Broman, violin, Torleif Thedéen, cello, Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano Presenter Sixten Nordström

Photos: Nikolaj Lund

Admission: 260 SEK adults, 130 SEK children/youth

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Lachrymae for string orchestra and viola. Lachrymae is a viola concerto that is founded on variations of the first phrases in the song of John Dowland If My Complaints Could Passions Move. The theme is first heard in the base which triggers a sequence of reflexions on the theme.

SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY The Älvdalen Church at 5.00 pm

Dramatic Love

The drama and the love constantly grow in the course of the entire concert that ends with Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

When Benjamin Britten returned to England in 1943 after a visit to the United States he was so severely struck by the measles that he had to be nursed in a hospital for several weeks. It was during that period that he composed the major part of his Serenade Op. 31. It is composed during WWII with lyrics of no less than six poets. The theme of the poems is the night, with its serenity and its calmness, which simultaneously is also sinister and foreboding in its character.

Repertoire B Britten: Serenade Op. 31 (1944) F Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 49 (1839) INTERMISSION B Britten: Lachrymae Op. 48 (1951) W A Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante E-flat Major K. 364 (1779) With Michael Weinius, tenor, Chris Parkes, French horn, Vilde Frang, violin, Jakob Koranyí, cello, Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano, Maxim Rysanov, viola, Lawrence Power, viola, Dalasinfoniettan, Daniel Raiskin, conductor Presenter Gregor Zubicky

Elegy O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. William Blake (1757-1827)

In the middle of composing the opera Billy Budd, inspiration for a piece for viola and piano crept up on Benjamin Britten. Lachrymae originally was written for the violist William Primrose and the premiere performance of the piece was at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1950 with the composer himself at the piano. It would then take another twenty-five years before Britten himself would orchestrate Page 14 Changes might appear

Vilde Frang. Photo: Marco Borggreve

Felix Mendelssohn completed his Piano Trio No. 1 on 23 September 1839 and had it published the following year. On his composer colleague Ferdinand Hiller’s advice he revised the piano part and made it more prominent, more Schumann-like. This was much appreciated by Schumann who in a review stated that Mendelssohn was “the Mozart of the 19th century, the most illuminating of composers”.

Admission: 280 SEK adults, 140 SEK children/youth

Michael Weinius - tenor

Vilde Frang - violin

Vilde is the recipient of the 2012 Credit Suisse Young Artists Award and made her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Summer Music Festival in September 2012. Noted particularly for her superb musical expression, as well as her well-developed virtuosity and musicality, Vilde Frang has established herself as one of the leading young violinists of her generation. Highlights among her recent and forthcoming engagements include performances with Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia, Sydney Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony and the Basel Kammerorchester, as well as a major US tour with the St Petersburg Philharmonic and Yuri Temirkanov. Born in 1986 in Norway, Vilde has studied at the Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo, with Kolja Blacher at Musikhochschule Hamburg and Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy. She plays the 1709 ‘Engleman’ Stradivari, lent by Nippon Music Foundation.

Photo: Marco Borggreve

Photo: Mats Bäcker

Swedish tenor Michael Weinius, born and raised in Stockholm, has rapidly established himself as one of Scandinavia’s most sought after and praised tenors. His musical training began as a baritone at the well-known Adolf Fredrik’s School of Music and was completed in 1995 with his examination from the University College of Opera in Stockholm. Michael made his professional stage debut in 1993 as Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte and he has since then been a regular guest at all the major opera houses in Sweden singing roles like Renato in Un ballo in Maschera, Posa in Don Carlo and Marcello in La Bohème. In contemporary opera Michael Weinius has also performed several roles especially written for him, like Cry Wolf by Hans Gefors and Jeppe by Sven David Sandström. In addition to his operatic career, Michael Weinius regularly sings lieder recitals as well as orchestral concerts. In spring 2013 he made his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich as Parsifal.

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Boris Brovtsyn - violin

Malin Broman - violin

In 2008, Malin Broman was appointed concert master of the Swedish Radio Orchestra and combines this with her international career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Since taking up her position in Stockholm, she has been invited as a guest leader by both the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Recent concerto appearances include performances with Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Västeras Sinfonietta, Värmlandsoperans Sinfonietta and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. Abroad, she has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Copenhagen Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony and Academy of St Martin-in-the Fields and worked with conductors Heinrich Schiff, Paul Daniel, Ilan Volkov, Andrew Manze and Naeme Järvi. In 2011, she performed Brahms Double Concerto with Stephen Isserlis and conductor Daniel Harding. Malin Broman plays a 1748 G. Gagliano violin, generously loaned by the Järnåker Foundation.

Photo: Mikael Wiberg

Winner of the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, Boris Brovtsyn appeared among others with Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre BBC Philharmonic, English Classical Players, CBSO Birmingham, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, RundfunkSinfonieorchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Berner Symphonieorchester, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Warsaw Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Utah Symphony Orchestra. He has performed at Verbier Festival, Lugano Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Ryedale Festival, Genius of the Violin Festival, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival and in the “George Enescu” Festival among others.

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Lawrence Power - viola

Maxim Rysanov - viola

Ukrainian-British violist and conductor Maxim Rysanov has established himself as one of the worlds most vibrant and charismatic musicians of his generation. 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 is a keen chamber musician. His chamber partners include Leif Ove Andsnes, Nicola Benedetti, Michael Collins, Alice Coote, Augustin Dumay, Martin Fröst, Sol Gabetta, Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Viktoria Mullova, Eldar Nebolsin, Alexei Ogrintchouk, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Kristina Blaumane, Jakov Katsnelson, Maxim Vengerov, Denis Matsuev and Ashley Wass. Maxim has long been recognised by the international music scene and his list of prizes affirm that status. He is delighted to have a Giuseppe Guadagnini viola (1780) on extended loan from the Elise Mathilde Foundation.

Photo: Pavel Kazhevnikov

Photo: Jack Liebeck

Lawrence Power is one of the foremost violists today and in 2011 was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Stockholm Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic and the Bergen Philharmonic for whom he was Artist-in-Residence for the 11/12 season. He has given recitals across the UK and in many of the major European concert halls. A keen champion of contemporary music, he gave the UK premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s concerto Remnants of Song with the Philharmonia and Susanna Malkki at the 2012 BBC Proms and the world premiere of Charlotte Bray’s Invisible Cities at the 2012 Verbier Festival. Lawrence Power is International Professor of Viola at the Zurich Hochschule der Kunst and founder and Artistic Director of the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival.

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Jakob Koranyí - cello

Photo: Anna-Lena Ahlström

The Swedish cellist Jakob Koranyi has firmly established himself on the classical music scene as one of Europe’s most interesting young soloists. An exciting 13/14 season will see Jakob Koranyi build further upon his reputation as one of Sweden’s favourite young cellists, working with orchestras such as the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta, Heidelberger Sinfoniker and Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra. This season Koranyi performs a number of recitals with elements of multimedia throughout Sweden, as part of a project produced by Swedish Radio chronicling Jakob’s life and music. He will also return to the United States to continue his collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center. Jakob Koranyi plays on a Giouanni Grancino built 1692 in Milan.

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Hidemi Suzuki - cello

Hidemi Suzuki graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, studied violoncello and conducting technique under Prof. Yoritoyo Inoue, Tadaaki Odaka and others. In 1984, Mr. Suzuki went to the Netherlands to study under Anner Bijlsma at the Royal Conservatory. He won first prize at the 1st International Baroque Cello Competition in Paris in 1986, was a member of the Orchestra of the 18th Century from 1985 to 1993, a principal member of La Petite Bande from 1992 to 2001 and has been first cellist of Bach Collegium Japan since its founding. He was professor of the baroque cello course of the Brussels Royal Conservatory from 1994 to 2000 and now teaches at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 2001, Mr. Suzuki founded “Orchestra Libera Classica” to focus on classical repertoire, especially Joseph Haydn; their performances and live recordings on TDK-core’s Arte dell’ arco label have been critically and popularly acclaimed. He has also written a book, “Kogakki” yo, Saraba! (which means, “Farewell, ‘Ancient Instruments’ !”).

Dan Laurin - recorder

Chris was born in Doncaster, England in 1981. He played the cornet and tenor horn before switching to the French horn when he was fifteen. Shortly after this change, he was invited to study at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester with Lizzie Davis. During this time he was also a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. After Chetham’s, he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Hugh Seenan, Jeffrey Bryant and Richard Bissill. In 2004, shortly after completing his studies, Chris was invited to join the London Philharmonic Orchestra as 3rd horn. 2008 saw him move to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as Principal Horn before taking the same position two years later in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as a Guest Principal horn with many orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Photo: Pelle Piano

In recent years the recorder virtuose Dan Laurin has performed in most parts of the world. Tours to the USA, Japan, Korea, India and Australia as well as appearances in the major European musical centres have confirmed his reputation as one of the most interesting – and sometimes controversial – performers on his instrument. His efforts to rediscover the sound possibilities of the recorder have resulted in a technical facility and a style of playing that have won him numerous awards including a Grammy, the Society of Swedish Composers‘ prize for the best interpretation of contemporary Swedish music and the Performer’s Prize from The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Besides working with early music Dan Laurin has also premiered numerous works by Swedish composers. His efforts to broaden the repertoire and to gain for the recorder the status of a concert instrument together with a large orchestra has resulted in several concertos that are already considered classics.

Christopher Parkes - french horn

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Simon Crawford-Phillips - piano

Polina Leschenko - piano

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 Rabinovitch-Barakovsky 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’, she has worked with acclaimed orchestras around the world. An accomplished and admired chamber musician, Polina Leschenko also performs frequently at many festivals with music partners such as Martha Argerich, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Ivry Gitlis, Julian Rachlin, Ilya Gringolts, Nathan Braude, Heinrich Schiff, Mischa Maisky and Torleif Thedéen.

Photo: Marco Borggreve

Simon Crawford-Phillips has established an unusually varied career as soloist, chamber musician, lieder accompanist and most recently as a conductor. Recent appearances included concerts in North and South America, Singapore and throughout Europe with artists such as Anne Sofie von Otter, Daniel Hope, Lawrence Power and Truls Mork. This season Simon will be joining the Nash Ensemble for a series of concerts at Wigmore Hall, pianist Philip Moore for a residency in Perth, Scotland and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Soloists for a tour of Italy. Festival appearances include Verbier (Switzerland), Resonances (Belgium), Savannah (North America), West Cork (Ireland) and ‘Change’ (Sweden). In 2014/15 Simon will be premiering a new piece by Steve Reich for two pianos and percussion at Carnegie Hall and throughout Europe.

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Anna Paradiso - harpsichord

Daniel Raiskin - dirigent

Daniel Raiskin became soon recognized as one of the most versatile conductors of the younger generation. He cultivates a broad repertoire, often looks beyond the mainstream in his strikingly conceived programs. He attended music school from the age of six and went on to the celebrated conservatory in his native city, where he studied viola and conducting. Inspired to take up the baton by an encounter with the distinguished teacher Lev Savich, he chose to make a gradual transition into a conducting career. At the age of twenty, Daniel Raiskin left the Soviet Union to continue his studies in Amsterdam and Freiburg, and was soon in demand as one of Europe’s leading viola players, both as a soloist and chamber musician. Since 2005, Daniel Raiskin has been the Chief Conductor of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie in Koblenz, and since 2008 he has held the same title with the “Artur Rubinstein” Philharmonic Orchestra in the Polish city of Lod

Photo: Larissa Raiskin

Photo: Pelle Piano

Anna Paradiso is a young Italian harpsichordist, with a PhD in classical Latin poetry, who performs to increasing critical acclaim, with recordings for BIS and concerts in prestigious festivals in Japan, the US, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Germany and UK. Anna was born in Bari (Italy) but is now resident in Sweden. She received her solo diplomas in piano with honors and in harpsichord with full marks, and she has won several piano competitions in Italy. She went on studying harpsichord for Gordon Murray in Vienna. With an academic career in Italy, at the Oxford University and in Sweden, she finally resumed a successful career in music. She received a Master in harpsichord at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Mayumi Kamata and Ulf Söderberg. She also studied Italian baroque music and basso continuo at the Conservatorio “Cimarosa” in Avellino (Italy) with Enrico Baiano (Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini, Naples). At the same time, she had lessons on French music with Christophe Rousset in Paris.

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Rigmor Gustafsson - vocals

Romeo & Julia Choir

Born of the stage, the Romeo & Julia Choir honours a musical storytelling tradition. The ensemble sings and emotes, making performance a visual as well as a musical experience. The result is a singular brand of vocal drama. Their eclectic repertoire spans from Italian Renaissance and French Baroque to Slavic songs and fiery folk tunes. The Romeo & Julia Choir treats audiences to a magic carpet ride that features tender tales of love as well as burlesque comedy. A 1991 production of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet brought the choir together at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre. Soon, they struck out on their own with musical dramas and Renaissance concerts that display the distinctive flair of their Artistic Director, Benoît Malmberg — a magnificent mélange of song, dance and theatre. The ensemble consists of some fifteen singers and one instrumentalist. Depending on the material, they appear in various constellations, ranging from an even dozen down to a quartet, or a soloist.

Photo: Urban Wedin

Photo: Jörg Grosse Gelderman

Rigmor continues to establish herself as one of the leading jazzvocalists in Scandinavia and in November 2013 she received the most prestigous jazz award in Sweden “The Royal Musical Academy’s Jazz Award”.Rigmor has released nine CD’s since 1997 and has recently recorded a new CD with piano trio and orchestra to be released in 2014. Three of her CD’s have sold Gold in Sweden and in 2008 Rigmor also won a Swedish Grammy for “Alone with you”, a CD with exclusively her own compositions.Through the years Rigmor has been touring substantially with her own trio but has also been a featured guest in other constellations. During 2012 she worked with a.o. Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra, Dalasinfoniettan and Gothenburg Wind Orchestra, and she appeared in several Swedish TV shows, e.g. the celebration of Crown Princess Victorias birthday that was broadcasted live on Swedish National TV.

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Sixten Nordström - presenter

Gregor Zubicky - presenter

Gregor Zubicky was born in Stockholm and grew up in Germany, Australia and South Africa. After an early career as boy-soprano he started playing the oboe, which he studied in Sweden, Norway and Germany. He was engaged as oboist with the Bergen Philharmonic from 1981-1997. Parallel to this he had a successful international career as soloist and chamber musician until he had to stop playing because of a focal dystonia in his right hand. In 1991 he founded the Stavanger international Chamber Music Festival. He also hosted his own program on Norwegian national TV. In 1997 he became the artistic manager of the Swedish Chamber orchestra, a position he still holds.

Photo: Ulla-Carin Ekblom

Photo: Leif Johansson, X-Ray foto

Sixten Nordström, born in Malmö in 1937, is one of the most famous figures in the nodic countries in the field of classical music. The main reason is that he led the Nordic TV quiz Kontrapunkt (Counterpoint). Previously, he was the host for the entertainment program Det bästa av det mesta (The best of everything) at the Malmö City Theatre and in Swedish Television. With the help of a symphony orchestra, vocalists, instrumental soloists and sometime ballet dancers he showed the audience the goodies from different musical areas. His books are widely used as textbooks in music teaching at various stages.

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Victoria Roberts - dance

Victoria began her career with Scottish Dance Theatre in Dundee, Scotland, where she danced for eight and a half years. After a short period teaching in the UK, she joined Cullbergbaletten in Stockholm and subsequently spent four years with the company. During her career so far, Victoria has performed in forty-two dance works by over thirty different choreographers, thirty-three of which she was involved in the creation process. Most notable choreographers include Jefta van Dinther, Mats Ek, Alexander Ekman, Rui Horta, Johan Inger, Benoit Lachambre, Crystal Pite, and Hofesh Shechter, amongst others. Victoria has also taught modern classes, creative workshops, and ballet classes in all types of institutions, from primary schools to professional degree courses, as well as for professional dance companies. Victoria is currently working as a freelance dancer, performer, and teacher, based in Stockholm.

Solène Nusbaum - dance

Solène Nusbaum got her education at Paris Opera Ballet School, Ecole Nationale Superieur de Danse de Marsille and Rudra Bejart School. Currently living in France, she has frequently been working in Sweden over the past years. She has also been working at Mainz Ballet, Chemnitz Ballet and Ballet De Biarritz Junior. Solène has done soloist parts in Swanlake and Shéhérazade and worked with choreographers such as Johan Inger, Lode Devos Page 24 Changes might appear

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Jochen Ulrich. This is not the first time Solène is working with choreographer Joseph Sturdy.

Joseph Sturdy - choreographer

Joseph Sturdy was born in London and grew up in Cambridge. He is educated at the Royal Ballet School London and has been engaged as a dancer with Royal Ballet London, Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Ballet Classico de Zaragoza and Deutsche Oper Berlin. Sturdy is the founder and the Artistic Director of Focus Dance, an ensemble which is celebrating 18 years. He has choreographed thirty dance works not only for his own company but also for various international companies. Apart from the choreographic work he is a guest ballet master for dance companies such as Kungliga Baletten, Göteborgsoperans Balett, Cullbergbaletten, Rambert Dance Company London and Balettakademien Stockholm, among others. Joseph Sturdy is also one of the founders of the Swiss modern company Linga Dans Lausanne.

Vinterfest 5-8 february 2015 mora, orsa & 채lvdalen

10th Anniversary Tickets will be released in November www.vinterfest.se

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