Karin Rehnqvist

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Karin Rehnqvist (2015)

Karin Rehnqvist (born August 21, 1957 in Stockholm ) is an internationally known Swedish composer and conductor of classical music. In 2009 she was the first woman to be appointed to a professorship in composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm . She composes chamber music, orchestral works, stage works and, above all, vocal music, incorporating elements of folk music, including the vocal technique Kulning .

Life

Rehnqvist was born in Stockholm and grew up in Nybro . She studied music education from 1976 to 1980 at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and continued to study composition until 1984, with Gunnar Bucht , Pär Lindgren and Brian Ferneyhough , among others . From 1976 to 1991 she directed the Stans Kör choir . From 2000 to 2003 she was composer in residence with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Svenska Kammarorkestern . Among other things, she composed a clarinet concerto for Martin Fröst and the orchestral work Arktis Arktis! which was inspired by a polar expedition in the summer of 1999. Both works were recorded in 2005. The choral symphony Light of Light for children's choir and orchestra premiered in Paris in 2004. In 2009, Rehnqvist was the first woman to be appointed to a chair in composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm .

composition

The composer incorporates elements of folk music into her works, for example Kulning (cow curling), a vocal technique that shepherdesses used to call their animals. Many of her compositions were written for the voices of Lena Willemark and Susanne Rosenberg , who are known as folk singers, for example Davids nimm and Puksånger-lockrop (1989).

In 1994 Rehnqvist composed Solsången ( Canticle of the Sun) for chamber orchestra with one singer and two narrators. The text is partly based on the old Icelandic Sólarljóð .

Awards

In 1996 Rehnqvist received the Läkerol Arts Award “for her renewal of the relationship between folk music and art music” and the Spelmannen Prize from the newspaper Expressen . In 1997 she received the Christ Johnson Prize for Solsången . In 2001 she received the Kurt Atterberg Prize and in 2005/06 the Rosenberg Award . In March 2006 she was awarded a retrospective of her works by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra , directed by Niklas Willén . In 2007 she received the Hugo Alfvén Prize . In 2014 she received a Grammis in the Classical category for the CD Live .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karin Rehnqvist . Hamburg University of Music . Retrieved February 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Karin Rehnqvist. Edition Reimers. ( Memento from January 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Karin Rehnqvist / Swedish Composer (World Leaders Forum) ( English ) Columbia University . Archived from the original on May 9, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 3, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldleaders.columbia.edu
  4. ↑ Karin Rehnqvist for Alfvénpriset ( Swedish ) Sveriges Radio . March 28, 2007. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 14, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sverigesradio.se
  5. ↑ KMH congratulations to Karin Rehnqvist till Grammis for årets klassiska album ( Swedish ) Royal Stockholm University of Music . February 21, 2014. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ 2014 ( Swedish ) Grammis . Retrieved March 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Rehnqvist, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm