Articles about Musical Performance

Challenges traditional listening

2020-09-29 New research at Luleå University of Technology examines the role of listening in intercultural musical collaboration and in ecological sound art. The hope is that the study, which has been carried out...

Erik Westberg's vocal ensemble awarded prize

2020-06-10 The Swedish Composers Association awards Erik Westberg and his vocal ensemble this year's Interpretation Award. In addition to the honor, a prize sum of SEK 50,000 is also included.

Conference focusing on streamed music

2020-06-10 Next week, the Music in the Age of Streaming conference will be held at the School of Music at Luleå University of Technology. For two days, the event brings together Nordic and international research...

Performs new composition in Piteå
3 Feb. 2020 19:00 – 21:00 :

2020-01-28 Erik Westberg's Vocal Ensemble performs a new work by composer Carl Unander Scharin at Studio Acusticum in Piteå on February 3. As an extra spice, American mezzo soprano Katherine Osborne, now a teach...

Trump video becomes viral

2019-11-25 A speech by US President Donald Trump set to music has attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers on Youtube in just a few days. The author is Mathias Lundqvist, senior lecturer and teacher at the Sch...

Wrote song for new Swedish movie

2019-10-18 David Myhr, senior lecturer and teacher at Luleå University of Technology in Piteå, wrote the single Work of love which can be heard in the new Swedish big film Until Frank separates us.

Sound art in interaction with nature

2019-08-21 Musicians have always been inspired by nature and living environment in their creative process. Few have, however, created music in direct interaction with the surroundings, but that was exactly what ...

Teachers won international music competition

2019-05-10 In rock hard international competition, Mathias Lundqvist's song Hopp och Lek was named winner when the US-based songwriting competition International Songwriting Competition (ISC) announced this year...

Performs work by Frost composer

2019-01-29 Erik Westberg, professor at Luleå University of Technology, and his vocal ensemble, premieres the work Bidám vuolle by composer Frode Fjellheim at two concerts in Luleå and Piteå. Frode Fjellheim is m...

Honored with a star on Piteå's walk of fame

2018-12-18 Erik Westberg, conductor and professor at Luleå University of Technology, was recently awarded a star on the pedestrian street in Piteå. Like the more famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, the stars in centr...

Royaly awarded for educational efforts

2018-12-07 Björn Hällis, teacher and university lecturer at Luleå University of Technology, is awarded Göran Lagervall's music scholarship in higher music education. The prize is awarded to teachers who have ma...

Awarded Piteå municipality's cultural award

2018-12-07 David Myhr, musician and university lecturer at Luleå University of Technology, is awarded the Piteå Municipality Culture Award 2018.

Premiere for men's choir Arctic Male Voices

2018-11-06 Under the direction of Professor Erik Westberg, the newly formed men's choir Arctic Male Voices will give their premiere concert in Umeå city church on Sunday 18 November at 15.00.

Celebrate 25 years of choir art in Studio Acusticum

2018-10-16 Erik Westberg's Vocal Ensemble has reached millions of listeners all over the world and is today considered one of the country's absolute top choirs. This autumn the ensemble turns 25 and that it is c...

The School of Music dominates industry gala

2018-10-11 Two of the university's teachers in composition were nominated in the category "This Year's Art Music - Ensemble / Opera" when the candidates for the Music Publishers Prize were presented. This means ...

New professor hopes to create collaboration areas

2018-10-02 Stefan Östersjö has since this autumn been a new subject representative and professor of musical performance at Luleå University of Technology. The classically-educated guitarist is internationally ac...

Acoustics research can affect the concert halls of the future

2018-07-24 A recently completed research project at Luleå University of Technology has investigated how different types of concert hall acoustics affect the performers' experiences of music performances. The res...

Jan Sandström honorary doctorate at Umeå University

2018-06-20 Jan Sandström, Professor at Luleå University of Technology, is one of three new honorary doctorates at Umeå University.

Royal Award for Doctoral Project

2018-06-12 Daniel Stighäll, a PhD student at Luleå University of Technology, is awarded with the 2018 Bernadott scholarship for his doctoral project, parlar cantando - speaking in song. At a ceremony at the Bern...

Appointed as new conductor for Sweden's youth choir

2018-05-21 Erik Westberg, professor at Luleå University of Technology, was recently appointed as the new conductor for Sweden's Youth Choir.

The songwriter process is mapped in new album

2018-02-02 Where do musical ideas come from? And what is it that make up a great song? These are some of the issues that University Lecturer David Myhr is studying. Issues explored on the upcoming album Lucky Da...

Newly-composed work are performed in Norrbotten

2018-01-30

The desire for music and life in new documentary

2018-01-15 Erik Westberg is described as a musical magician and is one of Sweden's absolute top choir conductors. This weekend, the radio program, the Conductor who survived, was premiered, in which his life was...

Music has its own creative power

2017-12-28 Does music have its own creative power? New research at Luleå University of Technology suggests that is the case.

Great contribution to the university's choir activity

2017-12-04 The professional choir activity at Luleå University of Technology is awarded over three million kronor from the Kempe Foundations, the Curt Boströms Foundation and the Norrbotten Region.

Awarded for outstanding educational activity

2017-10-13 Jan-Olof Eriksson, Professor at Luleå University of Technology, is awarded the Future Music Prize for Outstanding Educational Deed.

Unique initiative by the vocal ensemble

2017-09-28 Erik Westberg's Vocal Ensemble is widely regarded as one of the country's most outstanding in its genre. At the beginning of October, the ensemble releases its new record Chorus Gloriosus, which focus...

New member of the Royal Academy of Music

2017-06-22 Sverker Jullander, Professor of Musical Instrumentation, was recently elected as a new member of the Royal Academy of Music.

Music research on the agenda

2017-06-16 The music school at Luleå University of Technology hosted the ambulatory conference Music Research today for the first time.

Honored professor awarded exclusive scholarship

2017-05-02 Professor Erik Westberg, teacher at Luleå University of Technology, is honored with Landshövding Kari Marklund's scholarship. A prize awarded by the Längmanska företagarfonden to people who market No...

Dual feelings about Iran Tour

2017-04-10 The Chamber Choir of the Music Academy at Luleå University of Technolgy heads out on a long-distance tour. In April the choir visits Iran for a week's tour.

Students awarded scholarship

2017-01-31 Emma Stjernberg student in conducting at the master's program in music, was recently awarded a grant of 40 000 SEK from the Royal Academy of Music.

Guldbagge to Jan Sandström

2017-01-24 Jan Sandström, composer and professor at the School of Music at Luleå University of Technology, took home Guldbaggen for best original music at the annual Guldbaggegalan Monday evening.

Professor nominated for Guldbagge

2017-01-20 Jan Sandström, professor at Luleå University of Technology and one of Sweden's most celebrated composers, were recently nominated for a Guldbagge for Best Original Music.

Wrote music for the new blockbuster

2016-10-14 The assignment was to write the song the band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) never wrote. Said and done - now David Myhr is in the spotlight with the single Spellbound which will be heard in Ulf Malmr...

Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 11 October 2019
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