Celia Linde
Guitar
Celia Linde
A Swedish guitarist with an international career and training in Malmö, New York and Copenhagen. Haglund wrote Bortom avsked for her on commission, and she performed the work at the festival’s Saturday morning concert.
Tommie Haglund Festival 2016
30 September–1 October · Halmstad
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Where the festival began
The first Tommie Haglund festival in Halmstad brought musicians and audiences together around the composer’s distinctive musical world. Two days at S:t Nikolai Church and Pingstkyrkan combined chamber music, solo works and conversations about music and creativity. Göteborg Opera Orchestra under Joachim Gustafsson closed the festival with soloists, local choirs and students from Halmstad School of the Arts. Haglund’s works shared the program with music by Berlioz and Delius.
Program highlights
A selection from the festival program. Find every concert, time and program note in the original flyer.
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30 September
A Composer Portrait in Music and Conversation
Pingstkyrkan & S:t Nikolai Church, Halmstad
Boel Adler led a conversation with Tommie Haglund and Joachim Gustafsson before the evening concert. The program included Di sogni tessuto, La rosa profunda – alborada, Il regno degli spiriti, Meditation and Röstens dotter.
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1 October
Saturday Morning Music
S:t Nikolai Church, Halmstad
Celia Linde, Stefan Lindgren and Dan Almgren performed three solo works: Bortom avsked for guitar, Arcana lacrimae for piano and Epilogue to Hymns to the Night for violin.
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1 October
A Conversation about Creativity
Pingstkyrkan, Halmstad
Tommie Haglund, songwriter Alf Hambe and artist Margareta Petré joined a panel discussion about creativity, moderated by Boel Adler.
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1 October
Orchestral Finale with Choirs and Soloists
S:t Nikolai Church, Halmstad
Göteborg Opera Orchestra under Joachim Gustafsson joined local choirs and young musicians. Haglund’s Själens helgedom, Serenata per Diotima, Kärlekshjärtan and La rosa profunda appeared alongside Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été and Delius’s A Song before Sunrise. Ann-Christine Larsson was the soprano soloist.
Featured artists
Stefan Lindgren
Piano
Stefan Lindgren
Trained in Stockholm and at the Juilliard School in New York, Lindgren has an extensive career as a soloist and chamber musician. He has served as orchestral pianist with both the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. His festival appearances spanned chamber music, solo works and the orchestral finale.
Conductor
Joachim Gustafsson
As a violinist, Gustafsson appeared on Hallandsensemblen’s recording of Haglund’s Voces. At the first festival, he joined the conversation about the composer’s music and conducted Göteborg Opera Orchestra in the closing concert.
Participants
- Tommie Haglund composer and discussion participant
- Göteborg Opera Orchestra orchestra
- Joachim Gustafsson conductor and discussion participant
- Boel Adler moderator
- Anders Wilhelmsson organ, choir director and producer
- Dan Almgren violin
- Stefan Lindgren piano
- Celia Linde guitar
- Merintinkvartetten string quartet
- Yongmei Zhang-Gustafsson and Karin Berggren violin in Merintinkvartetten
- Heather Levenstein and Kerstin Andersson viola and cello respectively in Merintinkvartetten
- Ann-Kristin Högnabba soprano
- Ann-Christine Larsson soprano
- Teresia Bokor soprano, profiled in the printed program
- Ola Persson clarinet
- Gustav Ölmestad cello
- Erik Groenstein-Hendriks harp
- Roger Carlsson percussion
- Nova Cantica and Halmstad School of the Arts students young singers and musicians
- S:t Nikolai Choir choir
- Sturegymnasiet Choir choir
- Alf Hambe songwriter and discussion participant
- Margareta Petré artist and discussion participant
Tommie Haglund Festival 2016
The festival in print
Download the original printed program with the complete lineup, artist introductions and program notes.
Download the program
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