Älvsborg & GIOA Quarantine Concerts - Älvsborg Church - March 21, 2021,

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ÄLVSBORG & GIOA QUARANTINE CONCERTS
Sunday, March 21, 2021, 19:00, Älvsborg’s church, Gothenburg, Sweden
Let it all start again - words and tones in spring equinox
Music by Paula af Malmborg Ward
Music in Älvsborg in collaboration with Göteborg International Organ Academy present the GIOA Quarantine Concerts series of live streamed concerts for all who are at home and longing for live music. Simultaneously, we offer an opportunity for freelance musicians to perform in this period when many concerts are cancelled.
MUSICIANS
Mia Strand, soprano
Helena Sjöstrand Svenn, soprano
Katarina A Karlsson, alto
Siri Woxlin, alto
Per Drougge, violin
Annie Svedlund, violin
Märta Eriksson, viola
Frida Bromander, cello
Mikael Kjellgren, piano
Hans Davidsson, organ
Paula af Malmborg Ward, conductor
PROGRAMME
KLYVNINGEN (the Cleavage)
violin solo
THE MAGIC TONE (U-B Edberg/P. af Malmborg Ward)
soprano, violin, cello and piano
CANTATA from MISSA PRAESENTIS DIALECTICA (premiere)
Vocal ensemble, string quartet and organ
Kyrie/Klangen (T. Tranströmer)
Love/Intermezzo (S. Key-Åberg)
Bubbles (Gu Cheng)
Sanctus
Epilogus (Bei Dao, T. Tranströmer)
FULL FATHOM FIVE (W. Shakespeare, ur Stormen)
soprano and piano
CAUSERIES
violin, cello and piano
PRESENTED BY
Musik i Älvsborg and the Göteborg International Organ Academy in collaboration with SENSUS
BIO
Paula af Malmborg Ward
Composer and musician with a penchant for musical drama. Born in Stockholm, Gothenburger since 1992. Composes music in a former coke tower in the old harbour area Nya Varvet. Timing and text are key words in both opera creating, works for orchestra and choir, solo and ensemble and music for TV and radio.
In 1984, Paula and her friend Bjarne Nyquist "splashed gravel" in the Swedish song contest with Rendez-Vous - written as a joke.
Important works (selection)
The debut opera Bombpartyt, the radio opera Hittekvinnan, the music for SVT's Christmas calendar En decemberdröm, Criança (choral work commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music for H.M. Queen Silvia's 70th birthday) the choral works Äggen är slut och Hjässan är kal and The Gothenburg Opera's commissioned work Mytomania, whose world premiere would have taken place on February 20, 2021.
Paula received the City of Gothenburg Badge of Merit 2018, is a member of the Royal Academy of Music, the Swedish society of composers, FST and Sweden's composers and lyricists, SKAP. She is one of the initiators of the Kalv festival and Frontside Gothenburg International Chamber Music Festival.
She loves to sing. And play. And talk.
Thinks: being a musician must be the finest of professions.
Then thinks: but they must have something to play too.
Awards (selection)
1st prize Prix Italia for the radio opera Hittekvinnan
Carin Malmlöf-Forssling prize
Expressen's music award Spelmannen
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LIVE STREAM
Nora Morén & Eleanor Smith (video)
Anders Borgh (sound)