Sweden

The Swedish Music Information Centre is inviting two bloggers to Sweden and this year’s Hultsfred Festival. They are Avi Roig and Craig Bonnell, who write daily blogs on Swedish music called, respectively, It’s a Trap! and Swedesplease.

Composer portrait of Kent Olofsson and Faluto con forza with three composers in focus

In November 2007 the first printed volume of Eduard Tubin Complete Works was presented, containing piano pieces.

The Swedish Music Day will take place on the last Saturday of May, this year on May 31st.

The Swedish Jazz Celebration, SJC, is the most important festival for Swedish jazz and a meeting place for all interested in the genre.

Names such as Per Aldeheim, Tommy Tysper, and Mathias Venge may not be familiar to the general public, but their music is heard frequently around the world.

The Swedish Association of Music Publishers’ awards for 2007 were presented on October 25th.

Hit Facts - Newsletter from the Swedish MIC

”Tradition in Transition” is the theme of the Stockholm New Music Festival 2008.

Swedish composer Anders Eliasson is to be the subject of a major New York presentation on January 25th.

The legendary pop group ABBA will now have its very own museum in Stockholm.
“It’s great that someone feels like taking on our musical history and making it accessible,” commented recently Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Reuss in a joint statement.

Swedish composer Jonas Valfridsson has been awarded third prize in the Toru Takemitsu composition competition for his orchestral work In Killing Fields Sweet Butterfly Ascend.

The piece was performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Chikara Iwamura at the Tokyo Opera City Hall on May 27. First prize went to the Japanese composer Sho Ueda.

Jazz Facts is the new publication from the Swedish MIC devoted to articles about Swedish Jazz.
Download as PDF from www.mic.stim.se/Press room/Subscriptions

New web shop at Swedish Music Information’s website

At the beginning of June, Swedish Music Information Centre opened its book and sheet music store on the Internet. Now it is possible to order sheet music and books directly from the catalogues on the web site.

Sheet music for sale can be found in our classical catalogue and in the Edition Suecia catalogue. In addition, all books in our book archive are available for purchase.

Read more about the Swedish Music Shop at www.mic.stim.se

A third score is now available for free download as part of Edition Suecia's new project to reach a wider audience of musicians. The third in a series of chamber music scores by Swedish composers, a piano trio by Benjamin Staern can be downloaded from the website of the Swedish Music Information Centre.