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...
2020-02-10 This week, this year's Midwinter Festival takes place in Piteå. A festival that showcases the best that the Academy of Music at Luleå University of Technology has to offer.
2020-02-04 During the academic year 2019/20, the master's program in conducting and composition at the School of Music at Luleå University of Technology, worked closely with the Music School Kópavogs in Reykjavi...
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...
2019-09-24 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...
2019-08-21 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 ...
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...
2019-03-13 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.
2019-02-11 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...
2018-11-06 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...
2018-07-24 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...
2018-04-23 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...
2018-02-02 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...
2018-01-15 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.
2017-10-23 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...
2017-09-04 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...
2017-04-20 Stina Andersson, clarinet player and student at Luleå University of Technology, was recently awarded the Royal Skyttean Society price. Besides the honor she was also awarded a cash prize of 30 000 SEK...
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.
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...
2017-03-09 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...
2017-01-24 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.
2016-12-21 Professor Cecilia Ferm-Almqvist is awarded nearly four million from the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Memorial Fund. This beacuse of a new project that examines the importance of streaming media in gen...
2016-11-28 Erik Westberg, a professor at the University, was awarded the Norrbotten County Council Honorary Merit Scholarship at the annual Rubus Arcticus ceremony.
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...
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...
2016-08-05 Erik Westerberg's Vocal Ensemble will have the honor to perform at the opening of the Swedish Parliament on 13 September. Erik Westberg, professor at Luleå University of Technology, is looking forward...
2016-06-21 Framtidsbanken, Sparbanken Nord, are supporting Luleå University of Technology with five million SEK. The money will be used to strengthen research within the artistic area. Framtidsbanken has earlier...
2016-06-17 Students on the course International Orchestral Academy embarks on a norrbotten tour starting tomorrow. First stop on the tour will be Festspelen in Piteå.
2016-06-16 Jan Sandström, composer and professor at Luleå University of Technology is praised for his new opera Rococo machinery. The Opera is specially written to Drottningholmsteaterns 250-year celebration and...
2016-05-27 Petter Sundkvist, conductor and professor of musical arts at Luleå University of Technology was recently elected to the Board of the Royal Academy of Music.
2016-05-04 Cim Frode is a promising guitarist who studies music at Luleå University of Technology. Recently, he was awarded the prestigious Albin Hagström scholarship.
2016-03-07 This year's round of SMASK in Piteå offered spectacular costume changes and a real live orchestra. The winner was the group J.O.N.A.S with its contribution the Jonas song.
2016-03-01 On Friday night, it is time again for the Mello-spex SMASK in Piteå. Over 170 students from the School of Music at Luleå University of Technology are involved in the event
2016-01-22 Acclaimed artist Anna von Hausswolff chose to record her new album The Miraculous in Piteå. This thanks to the University's renowned Organ Acusticum.