klaverdal – Stefan Klaverdal

New CD: Love Ballads

150518, everywhere

CD release of Contemporary Composers play Love Ballads vol. 1. A collaboration with Håkan Lidbo where 8 classical love ballads from the 1990s get deconstructed, remixed and heard in completely new ways.

evocations – new CD out!

140901, everywhere

The new CD evocations is out! Listen in your streaming service of choice. Read more at www.dynamik.se

Ser du Människa? – music event and mass for choir, actors and computer

20121020, 22:00, Lunds Domkyrka, Lund, Sweden

”Ser du människa?” is not only a concert. It is neither only a service or a play. It is perhaps a state of being, where you are invited to meditate.
Based on texts from the Book of Revelations, Olof Hartman, and Arne H Lindgren this event explores ways of relating to text, sounds, music and space within the context of the church, containing a choir, actors, computer, and a mass.

Choir: Saxenborn Singers, Conductor: Joachim Saxenborn, Actors: Kerstin Andersson, Matthias Thorbjörnsson, Priest: Lena Sjöstrand, Computer: Stefan Klaverdal

The event is a part of a larger project including a sound installation and readings of the texts. This event occurs as part of the Lund International Choral Festival and readings of the texts in relation to the installation.

Misrau Ca performed at The Fringe, Edinburgh

120821-120825 The Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)

Misrau Ca is premièred in the UK by the duo Essens:1 (Ian Peaston and Per Johansson). The piece is composed for electric violin and amplified clarinet with computers and was commissioned by Essens:1 and the Swedish Arts Grants Council during 2011. During the festival it will be performed five nights in a row.

First performance of Play Music with ensemble KROCK

120317, 2100, MAF, Malmö, Sweden

First performance of the piece Play Music written to electric guitar ensemble KROCK in a project initiated by the society C-Y (ContemporarY). The piece was in an earlier form published in the magazine OEI during 2011.

Open workspace at Inter Arts Center, Malmö

Open workspace at Inter Arts Center, Malmö
120317, 12.00-16.00, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden

Composer and sound artist Stefan Klaverdal is working in public with an interactive sound installation. The main project is called ”Text, Sound and Space,” and is exploring various ways of spaces and interactions, between audience and sound, text, and space, art and community, and many more.

The current version or work in progress is taking the form of a sound installation. It is based on texts by Olof Hartman and excerpts from the book of revelation. It will be possible to interact with the texts by moving in space or singing in a microphone.

The finished work will be shown in various forms during autumn 2012. The largest version will include actors Kerstin Andersson and Per Löfberg as well as the choir Saxenborn singers and will be premiered during Lund International Choral Festival in the Cathedral of Lund.

The workspace is open 120317 between 12-16 at Inter Arts Center
Open other times at request.

Find Inter Arts Center here.

First performance of The Sound I Heard

120129, 16.00, Sparebankens Festsal, Nordlysfestivalen in Tromsø, Norway

First performance of The Sound I heard for flute, guitar and electronics, composed to David Härenstam. Performance with Peter Fridholm. More on the concert here.

First performance of Resonate

120128, 2030, Palladium, Malmö, Sweden

During a Pianomarathon, organized by C-Y (contemporary) the new commission by Swedish Arts Council Resonate – a reconstruction of fragments from Beethoven Sonate op. 27. is performed by Karolina Sandell and Julia Sigova. The piece is composed to be performed by one student and one professional pianist.

Klaverdal receives The Prince Eugen Culture Prize

110124, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde

Stefan Klaverdal receives The Prince Eugen Culture Prize at a closed ceremony at Waldemarsudde in Stockholm. The Prize is awarded interesting artist that through their work have strengthen Swedish-Norwegian relations. It is always shared between one Swedish and one Norwegian artist. The current year it is shared between Klaverdal and the Norwegian singer-songwriter Randi Tytingvåg.
More about the prize.