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...
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.
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...
2020-06-07 On Friday, June 5, the orchestra academy's graduation concert was performed at the Concert Hall in Stockholm. The program, which is a collaboration between Luleå University of Technology and the Royal...
2020-05-08 Elin Johansson, a student at the Higher Education Diploma Programme as recording/performing artist program, is releasing her debut single Human on Spotify. A song inspired by complicated relationships...
2020-03-10 Now on Friday it is time for this year's competition of the melaspex SMASK in Piteå. An evening filled with pitch rises, banter and high-octane shows. However, this year's event has an ominous theme.
2020-02-17 Some of Sweden's leading documentary filmmakers gathered at the School of Music at Luleå University of Technology during Friday's documentary film day. This year's event circled around the most person...
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...
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...
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.
2019-10-15 The composer and former student Johannes Pollak was nominated for the Music Publishers Award in the category of Art Music of the Year. The nominated work was a composition of William Shakespeare's poe...
2019-10-10 Recently, the work "BB-occupation" was performed with Norrbotten's Youth Symphonics in Boden. The author is the composition student Alva Stern who wants to highlight the burning current issues of wome...
2019-10-01 The Luleå University School of Music opened its doors to the public and invited guests on Tuesday. More than 300 visitors from large parts of northern Sweden got to know everything from lectures to da...
2019-09-24 Last spring, Lada Egolaeva graduated from the bachelor's program in music at Luleå University of Technology. Now she becomes the new chaplain for the orchestra in the immensely popular television prog...
2019-07-10 Student Fredrik Ekenvi has won the final in the international composition competition WASBE (World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles). The competition focuses on wind orchestra music and F...
2019-06-19 The summer academy at Framnäs Folk High School attracts promising musicians and renowned teachers every year to Piteå. Everything from students at advanced level to high school students and amateurs g...
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...
2019-03-16 After great drama, it was clear that this year's winner of SMASK in Piteå was the contribution "A kick" with the artists Kjell-Ken and Bob. It was the second consecutive year that the students Kristof...
2019-03-14 Many have certainly noticed that the volume may be commuting on the radio or felt compelled to adjust the volume when the sound level suddenly changes during television broadcasts. Differences in perc...
2019-03-13 On Friday, it is time for this year's SMASK in Piteå. The Mello-spex that involves all of the Swedish Music Schools is a loving tribute to Eurovision. The theme of the competition in Piteå is space.
2019-02-18 For the 11th consecutive year, the Documentary Film Day was organized at Luleå University of Technology during Saturday. The day was devoted to documentary films, with views, conversations and discuss...
2019-02-11 This week, the annual Midwinter Festival will be arranged at Luleå University of Technology. For four days, the public is given the opportunity to enjoy high quality music, performed by the students t...
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...
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...
2018-12-17 Student Kristoffer Töyrä is awarded this year's Hähnel scholarship. He studies the final year of the Bachelor program in Music with vocals as the main instrument.
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...
2018-11-16 The School of Music at Luleå University of Technology hosted the Science Council's annual symposium on artistic research this week. The theme of the event was basic research aimed at initiating a disc...
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.
2018-10-22 Acusticum was filled with cultural enthusiasts on Saturday when the School of Music at Luleå University of Technology invited the public to a anniversary festival. Students and employees stood for the...
2018-10-20 The atmosphere was on top when the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the School of Music began on Friday night. Specially invited guests from the university, business, other universities and the ...
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...
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 ...
2018-10-09 In the autumn of 1978, the School of Music at Luleå University of Technology opened the doors for the first time. 40 years have passed and a wealth of worthwhile partnerships, fantastic people and cul...
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...
2018-08-22 With a new academic year, new students will also come. This year's students arrived at the School of Music at Luleå University of Technology during Wednesday morning and was welcomed by university man...
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...
2018-06-20 The annual recurring summer academy at Framnäs Folkhögskola attracts promising musicians and reputable teachers to Piteå every June. Everything from advanced-level students to high school students and...
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...
2018-05-31 Student Lemar Jalili has made success in the spring with the song Chase That Gold. He went all the way to the final in the local P4 Next competition, and despite the fact that it did not go all the wa...
2018-05-09 During the week, the national conference Dance in School-Biennial has been organized in Skellefteå and Piteå. The purpose of the biennial is to emphasize the importance of dance for children and young...
2018-04-23 OrganicArt takes place for the fourth time in 2018. The purpose is to present organ art together with other art forms and showcase the relationships between organ music, visual arts, literature, poetr...
2018-04-16 The musician and the student Mirja Palo draw inspiration from nature and feel that she has found her artistic home in folk music. Her single Fjäril was recently promoted on P4 Norrbotten.
2018-03-27 International Orchestra Academy have never had such a high search pressure as during this year's admission round. 228 hopeful people have reported their interest in the nine available places.
2018-03-05 Streamed music and companies like Spotify have today taken over the role as the premier music distributor. Never before, has music been as accessible as today, but it is at the same time a development...
2018-03-02 Mathias Lundkvist, fluteist and master student in music, is awarded this year's Hähnel Scholarship of the Scholarship Board at the Music School at Luleå University of Technology.
2018-02-19 On Wednesday, this year's edition of the Midwinter Festival will start. An arrangement that shows the best of what the university in Piteå has to offer. The festival is entirely organized by the stude...
2018-02-09 Eric Forsgren's documentary film prize was awarded on the annual documentary film day in Piteå on Friday. This year's winner was Maud Nycander, who was praised for her extensive efforts in the documen...
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...
2018-02-01 University lecturer Cecilia Björklund Dahlgren has been promoted to Professor of Dance Education for Artistic Studies at Luleå University of Technology. The first of its kind in Sweden.
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...
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.
2017-11-17 The School of Music at Luleå University of Technology opened its doors to the public and invited guests during Wednesday. Several hundred got to experience everything from rock music to dance and radi...
2017-10-23 The studio musician has started a collaboration with the music producer and songwriter education Advanced Music Production (AMP), which is run in collaboration with Fryshuset Folkhögskola, Anders Bagg...
2017-10-09 Mikael Bäckman, university lecturer at Luleå University of Technology, presents his master's thesis with a lecture and concert at Studio Acusticum tonight. In the master's thesis, he has investigated ...
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...
2017-09-20 Since the Kårhusföreningen in Piteå went bankrupt, Piteå student section (PIST) stood without its own local. A fact that of course influenced both the student section and student life for almost two y...
2017-09-11 Luleå University of Technology's commitment to visualizing the artistic research to a broad public had a grand premiere on Friday night. The venture under the name The University presents offered ever...
2017-09-04 The artistic research environment at Luleå University of Technology will be made visible to a broad public through a series of events under the name The University presents. The initiative begins with...
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...
2017-03-22 A new hearing based music education at Luleå University of Technology caters to musicians and bands who want to find their creative core through a mix of garage thinking and academic training. The pro...
2017-03-13 After a thrilling vote and an evening of humorous ESC tributes, the contribution Legend of snowmobile-Bängt was chosen to be the winner of 2017 SMASK in Piteå.
2017-03-09 Jon Henrik Fjällgren feat. Aninia took one of the direct places to the Eurovision Song Contest final on Saturday. Behind the song A world full of battles (Eatneme gusnie jeenh dåaroeh) is the composer...
2017-02-06 Eric Forsgren's documentary prize was awarded to the journalist Bosse Lindquist for his trilogy The experiments dealing with surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, then working at the Karolinska Institute in Stoc...
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.
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.
2016-10-31 Mikael Fall, musician and former student at the university, was recently awarded the prestigious Gunnar Hoffstens scholarship. According to the explanatory memorandum, Mikael Case has"demonstrated tha...