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Svante Henryson

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Svante Henryson (born 22 October 1963) is a Swedish composer, cellist, bass guitarist and double bassist, active within jazz, classical music, and hard rock. Biography Childhood and studies Svante Henryson was born in Stockholm and grew up in Umeå in northern Sweden. His father was a Full Professor of Education, and his mother a Director of Studies in English at Umeå University. At age 12, after falling in love-at-a-distance with a female bassist at a concert, Svante began playing bass guitar in a rock band. Two years later, he switched to jazz and double bass. A concert with Stan Getz at the Umeå Jazz Festival made up his mind about becoming a musician. Another life-changing experience was hearing the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in concert in Östersund. He left his hometown already at age 14 to study music; two years in Härnösand, three years at Ingesund College of Music and (later) one year at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He was Principal Double Bass of the World Youth Orchestra 1983 to 1984. Early professional years Still in his teens and halfway through music college, he became a member of the Oslo Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons 1983–1986. After makin

Svatopluk Havelka

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Svatopluk Havelka (born 2 May 1925 – 24 February 2009) was a Czech composer. Biography Svatopluk Havelka was born in the village of Vrbice in the North Moravian region of Czechoslovakia. He studied composition privately with Karel Boleslav Jirák from 1945 to 1947, while a student of musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University under Josef Hutter and Antonín Sychra. Havelka subsequently became a member of the music department of Czechoslovak Radio in Ostrava. At the same time he was the founder and artistic director of the NOTA Ensemble (1949–1950). His wife was the actress Libuše Havelková, with whom he had a son, musician and actor Ondřej Havelka. Havelka died on 24 February 2009 in Prague. Selected list of works * The Rose of Wounds. Songs for a middle voice and piano (also for orchestra) to texts by Baroque poets, 1944, CHF, o PA 8’ * Night Music for orchestra, 1944, manuscript 20’ * Suite for Small Orchestra, 1947, manuscript 16’ * Symphony No. 1, 1956, SU, o Su 42’ * Four Music-dramatic Suites to texts of Moravian folk poetry for solo voice, chamber ensemble, reciter, voiceband and chamber orchestra - 1948, 1949, 1951 - manuscript each 30’ * Spring. Vocal Rhap

Svea Nordblad Welander

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Svea Goeta Nordblad Welander (24 July 1898 – 1985) was a Swedish composer, organist, teacher, and violist, who was born in Limhamn, Malmo, to a family of nine children. In 1914, she began working as cinema pianist to save money for further education. She studied in Malmo and later in Copenhagen. Her teachers included John Heinze, Henrik Knudsen, Lars-Erik Larsson, and Sten Broman. She became a member of the Society of Swedish Composers. From 1927 to 1964, Svea was a church organist in Bjurlov. She taught music at Hyilan Folk High School for 18 years, and taught piano at the Music Conservatory in Malmo from 1927 to 1935, leaving when she married composer Waldemar Welander. They had a daughter named Monica. Svea published music under her birth name “Nordblad” and also under her married name “Welander.” Svea and Waldemar helped found Akarp’s orchestra, where she played viola for many years. Her compositions include: Chamber *Burlesque Melody (flute, clarinet and bassoon) *Choral Preludes (organ) *Dialogue and Fugue (two woodwinds) *Divertimento (clarinet, violin and cello) *Humoresque (violin and piano; 1942) *Mazurka No. 2 (violin, cello and piano) *Monica’s Mazurka (violin, cello an

Sven Arefeldt

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Sven Allan Amandus Arefeldt, born Forsberg (29 December 1908 – 17 August 1956), was a Swedish musician, singer and composer. Arefeldt was born in Stockholm, and spent parts of his youth in Lindesberg, Västmanland. He learned to play the violin at an early age, but soon switched to the piano. In 1924, at age 15, he formed the jazz orchestra TOGO (The Original Green Orchestra). From the late 1920s, Arefeldt played with several jazz orchestras in different music venues in Stockholm. He was one of Sweden’s most famous jazz musicians throughout the 1930s. In 1937, Arefeldt started working for the record label Sonora. Inspired by Fats Waller, he started recording more comedic material and novelty songs from the 1940s onwards. He also hosted a popular radio program, Sven Arefeldt leker på pianot (“Sven Arefeldt Plays With The Piano”). In the 1940s and 1950s, Arefeldt also wrote and arranged music to several films. Among Arefeldt’s popular recordings include “I en roddbåt till Kina”, “Hjärtats röst”, “Tre små sillar” and “Jag fick en kyss till god natt”. Arefeldt voiced the Cheshire Cat in the Swedish dub of the Disney film Alice in Wonderland (1951). Arefeldt died in Lindesberg, where he

Sven Helbig

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Sven Helbig (born 30 October 1968) is a German composer, director and music producer known for his genre-crossing works that blend classical music with electronic and contemporary elements. His compositions have been performed by renowned ensembles and orchestras around the world, including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the BBC Singers, the Fauré Quartet, the London Contemporary Orchestra, and many others. Helbig’s versatility has made him a much sought-after collaborator for crossover projects; he has worked as a producer, composer and arranger with Rammstein, Pet Shop Boys, Snoop Dogg, cellist Jan Vogler, opera singer René Pape, pianist Olga Scheps and more. Helbig’s work builds on the tradition of the Gesamtkunstwerk (all-embracing art form) and he often takes responsibility for concept, music and production at the same time. Biography Helbig was born in 1968 and grew up in Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany. His first experience with music began with the clarinet, later he added guitar, piano and drums. In 1996, Helbig and hornist Markus Rindt founded the Dresden Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra is specialized in new, symphonic music in unusual producti

Sven Libaek

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Sven Erik Libaek (born 20 September 1938) is a Norwegian-Australian composer, record producer and musician. He composes film and TV soundtrack music and, as the staff producer for the Australian division of CBS Records, influenced the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s. In 1982, an album titled Endless Love peaked at number 71 in Australia; his only top 100 charting release. Biography Libaek was born in Norway on 20 September 1938, trained as both a pianist and an actor and is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York. He first achieved international recognition with a role in the Louis de Rochemont film Windjammer in which he both acted and performed as piano soloist with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Libaek first came to Australia in 1960 as a member of the band the Windjammers, which toured the United States and Australia to promote the film. Shortly after the group broke up, Libaek and his wife returned to Australia to live. Libaek lived and worked in Los Angeles from 1977 to 1994 where he orchestrated more than 300 popular songs for US radio stations and artists including Lionel Richie and Neil Diamond, and he also worked for the Hanna-Barbera

Sven Scholander

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Sven Scholander (21 April 1860 – 14 December 1936) was a Swedish musician, singer, composer and sculptor. His musical innovations led to a revival in Swedish lute playing whilst his solo performances of Carl Michael Bellman reintroduced the works in their original form. Sculptor Born into a large and musical family, Scholander was the son of Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander, an architect whose avocations included painting, poetry and singing to his own guitar accompaniment. Businessman In addition to his artistic pursuits Scholander was a businessman, who opened a retail outlet for the Hasselblad Company in 1895, where he sold cameras and photographic equipment. He was also active in the publishing industry and in 1915 became the managing director of the AB Nordiska Musikförlaget. In fact, his concerts were often referred to as “Bellman evenings”. America Scholander’s younger brother Torkel Scholander (1871-1962) was likewise a singer and lute player. While touring the United States in 1911 he recorded twenty sides for Victor Records. Twelve years later the troubadour Gunnar Bohman (1882-1963) crossed the Atlantic and performed Bellman songs for Swedish-American audiences from coast to c

Sven-David Sandström

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Sven-David Sandström (30 October 1942 – 10 June 2019 ) was a Swedish classical composer of operas, oratorios, ballets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works. Life and career Sandström was born in Motala and studied art history and musicology at Stockholm University. He also studied musical composition at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. He was a faculty member at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and Indiana University Bloomington’s Jacobs School of Music, where he taught for fifteen years. A number of his works were inspired by significant choral works by Bach and other composers, but reinterpreted in Sandström’s very personal style. These include a set of the six Bach cantata texts in Bach’s structure (double choir plus four-part chorale), a reinterpretation of the text of Handel’s Messiah commissioned and premiered by the Oregon Bach Festival in 2009 and also performed at the Rheingau Musik Festival that year, and works by Purcell. His work draws on ideas from modernist music, minimalist music, jazz, and popular music. Indeed, in Act II of Jeppe, the chorus sings the line “O Lord, Won’t You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz” in harmony based on the original Janis Joplin

Sven-Eric Johanson

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Sven Eric Emanuel Johanson (10 December 1919 - 29 September 1997) was a Swedish composer and organist. Biography Sven-Eric Johanson was born to Hjalmar and Beda Johanson in Västervik in 1919. The parents were both officers in the Salvation Army, but in 1926 Hjalmar became a pastor in Missionsförbundet instead. He began his formal music studies in 1938 at the Ingesund College of Music and was accepted to the Royal College of Music, Stockholm in 1939. During his time as a student in Stockholm, Johanson studied composition with Melcher Melchers and organ with Otto Olsson and Alf Linder. In 1944 Johansson became the director of music at Uppsala Missionskyrka. In the 1940s Johanson studied Ernst Krenek’s book on the twelve-tone technique and employed it in his 1949 Sinfonia ostinata. In 1952 he became the organist at Hagens kapell (today Älvsborgs kyrka) in Gothenborg, a position he held until 1977. He was a founding member of The Monday Group. In 1971 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He is buried on the Stampen cemetery in Gothenburg. Works Johanson wrote twelve symphonies and several operas. He composed a number of concertos, some for unusual instruments like

Sven-Erik Bäck

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Sven-Erik Bäck (16 September 1919 – 10 January 1994) was a Swedish composer of classical music. He was born in Stockholm. Bäck studied from 1939 until 1943 in the King’s Music-Academy and from 1940 until 1945, was a composition student of Hilding Rosenberg. He travelled in 1951 to have further studies with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome. As of 1953 he was the leader of the chamber orchestra of the Swedish Radio Orchestra. He was also a member of string quartets - the Kyndel Quartet from 1940 to 1944 and the Barkel Quartet from 1944 to 1953. Bäck composed three operas, five works for ballet, many concertos, a number of works for chamber ensemble including at least four string quartets, an oratorio, cantatas, choral works, lieder and music for plays and film. He died in Stockholm in 1994. He was 74 Works for stage and opera * Tranfjädrarna (The Twilight Crane), Chamber Opera, 1956 * Gästabudet (The Banquet), Chamber Opera, 1956 * Fågeln (The Bird), Chamber Opera, 1960 Chamber music Chamber works other than piano solo works *String quartets (nos. 1 (1945), 2 (1947), 3 (1962), 4 (1984)) *String quintet Exercitier (1948) *Sonata for solo flute, 1949 *Sonata for two cellos, 1957 *Decet for wi

Sverre Jordan

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Sverre Jordan (25 May 1889 – 10 January 1972) was a Norwegian composer, orchestra conductor, and pianist. Biography Jordan was born into the family of Kaspar Joachim Jordan (1859–1924), an insurance agent, and Anne Marie Margrethe Kjærbye (1866–1935) from Denmark. He was initially married to actress Magda Blanc from 1918 to 1949, and later to actress Nina Sandvik Kristensen (29 March 1920 – 30 October 1996) starting in 1949. The family had a strong musical background, as depicted in a painting showing Jordan’s grandfather, Caspar Jordan, at the spinet. One of his aunts was a renowned pianist in Denmark, although Jordan himself was not destined to become “the musician” of the family. After completing middle school at Bergen katedralskole, his father wanted him to attend the newly established trade school in Bergen. Jordan, however, worked for several years at the oil company Vestlandske Petroleumskompagni before his father recognized his son’s true calling in music. In 1959, he was honored with the title of Knight of the 1st order in the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. Music In 1906 he made his first composition Nat. He went to Berlin and studied under Teresa Carreño and Conrad A

Svetlana Nesterova

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Svetlana Nesterova is a Russian composer and violinist. Since 2002 she has served on the musical instrument faculty at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Biography Born in Yekaterinburg, Nesterova studied music composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Boris Tishchenko from 1995 to 2000. She continued on at the Conservatory to pursue further post-graduate studies which she completed in 2002. During this time she performed as part of a student delegation in concerts in Moscow and Boston, Massachusetts. She also served as the concertmaster at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. In 1999 Nesterova was awarded the grant Muses of Petersburg in the music category. In 2005 she was a prize-winner of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Russian opera composition competition with her one act opera The Lawsuit. The work was one of three new operas selected by the Mariinsky Theatre for performance in the summer 2009 festival, receiving its premiere at the opera house on 21 June of that year. She was awarded first prize at the All-Russian Andrei Petrov Competition for her violin fantasy In the World of High Technology in 2007. Her children’s opera, Semyon. Version 1.0 (composed with Vyacheslav

Svetozar Saša Kovačević

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Svetozar Saša Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Саша Ковачевић; 3 January 1950 – 18 September 2022) was a Serbian composer, music pedagogue and church organist. He was one of Serbia’s best-known contemporary composers. Biography Svetozar Saša Kovačević was born in Zabalj and studied music at the Isidor Bajić Music School in Novi Sad. He studied composition with Victor Safranek, Nikola Petina, Rudolf Bruchi and Vasilij Mokranjac. During his studies, he began performing as a pianist, deciding at the same time to practise organ music as a soloist or a member of ensembles performing works of spiritual music in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia. He attended seminars for organ building and trimming in Grožnjan (Croatia) in 1973 with prof. Patrick Colon (Belgium) and at the Chamber Music Seminar in Amsterdam and Utrecht at the invitation of the Dutch Government in 1974. Kovačević taught accordion at the Davorin Jenko music school in Belgrade. After retiring from all professions he retired as a full professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Musical Arts, Departments of Composition and Musicology for the subject: Playing and reading orchestral scores. Since 2005 was liste

Svitlana Azarova

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Svitlana Azarova (; born 9 January 1976) is a Ukrainian-Dutch composer of contemporary classical music, originally from the Ukrainian SSR. Early years Svitlana Azarova was born on 9 January 1976, in Izmail, then in the Ukrainian SSR, now in Ukraine. After having graduated in music from Odesa Pedagogical Institute as in 1996, Azarova entered Odesa Conservatory, where she studied musical composition, first under the Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Krasotov, and later (until 2000) under the Ukrainian author and composer Karmella Tsepkolenko. In 2003 Azarova participated for six months in the scholarship program, at the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, under Marcin Blazewicz. Later that year, the invited Azarova to participate in the Scholarship project pass_ПОРТ within the . This project met again at the 8th musica viva in Munich in 2007. In 2005 With a grant of the society KulturKontakt Austria she elected to participate in the 9th International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art, Avantgarde Tirol with Professor Boguslaw Schaeffer and Dr. Richard Boulanger (Seefeld, Tirol, Austria). After this academy, she took up permanent residency of The Hague and in 2006 began post

Svyatoslav Lunyov

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Svyatoslav Ihorovych Lunyov (born April 19, 1964), is a Ukrainian composer. He is the author of symphonic, chamber, choral, piano and electroacoustic music. Among his works are operas (“Moscow - Petushki”, “Bad Tempered Songs”) and music for movies. In 2017, he received the Bronze Cannes Lion, for Witness. He is member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. He was born in Kyiv and graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory where he studied with Lev Kolodub. Since 2000, he has been a lecturer at the Kyiv Conservatory. The 2020 Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, featured his work New Russian Dances. One of the most representative compositions is Panta Rhei– a utopia for a big symphony orchestra. This piece – is a hymn to elements of live and non-living nature. In addition to that, it is a look at the idea of the emergence and evolution of life through the idea of detuning an unison. Panta Rhei consists of three parts and lasts 53 minutes. For his entire career, Lunyov encompassed all genres of serious music, including chamber, choral, vocal, piano, electroacoustic, and film music. In the last years, Lunyov has explored writing electroacoustic, symphonic, and ensemble works. Als