Sven Åberg (lutenist)

Sven Åberg (* 1963) is a Swedish lutenist, guitarist and music teacher.

Life

Sven Åberg grew up as a child in Spain and Peru for some time. His musician career began as a guitarist. Here he was particularly fascinated by the guitar literature between the 15th and 17th centuries. This is how he discovered the lute as an instrument. He later specialized in playing various renaissance and baroque lutes and thus entered the field of early music and historical performance practice . He was active as a lute and continuo player in various ensembles. As an instrumentalist, he participated in many baroque performances in Sweden and abroad. In the 1990s he became a member of the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble , which he still belongs to today. During his busy concert career he met the flautist Göran Månsson. Through him he discovered folk music . Originally free music-making, more of a hobby, developed into a close musical partnership, which again led to serious CD productions. With the pianist Mikael Jöback he founded a trio called Tango Libre , which was later expanded to a quartet and in 1999 released a CD with arrangements by Jöback and Åberg. He also plays in the Ensemble Silfver, with which he recorded a CD of the same name, whose music ranges between folk and baroque music. He was artistic director of the Lyssna Festival in Kalmar for four years in the 1990s . In 2006 he was conductor and musical director of the opera project I natt! At the Vadstena Academy . I natt! with music from the 16th century and improvisations. He wrote music for theater performances and radio plays.

Åberg teaches lute and chamber music at Kungl. Musikhögskolan KMH [Royal College of Music] in Stockholm. He teaches renaissance and baroque lute, baroque guitar , theorbo and other stringed instruments of the time. In addition to playing solo instruments, he also teaches figured bass. He regularly offers courses in practical improvisation and holds seminars in rhythmic notation of the Renaissance and improvisation in early music.

Works (selection)

• Spelrum, 2008 ISBN 978-91-71789-13-6 (Swedish)
• Styles and Actions. Paradoxes and Agreements in the Conservatory Teacher's Practice, 2010 ISBN 978-91-7335-024-2 (English)
• Vana, minne och analogic tänkande. [Habit, Memory, and Analog Thinking], 2011 ISBN 978-91-86659-04-2 (Swedish)

Recordings (selection)

• The Contemporary Lute [The Contemporary Lute] Peter Söderberg, Lute and Theorbe; Sven Åberg. Lute and theorbo; Leif Henriksson, bass viol. Recorded in 1990 and 1991. Published in 1991 by Alice Musik Produktion. I Karlheinz Stockhausen : Zodiac II Ingvar Karkoff (* 1958): Four duets for two lutes III John Cage : Dream IV Steve Reich : Piano Phase
• Oknytt Göran Månsson and Sven Åberg. Released in 1996 on the Prophone label
• Tango Libre. Mikael Augustsson, bandoneon ; Jonas Dominique, bass; Sven Åberg, guitar, electric guitar , lute; Mikael Jöback, piano; Anna Lindal, violin. Released in 1999 by the BIS label. Recorded in spring 1998
• Spår Göran Månsson and Sven Åberg. Released in 2000 by the Ear Ethno label
• Älvdans Göran Månsson and Sven Åberg. Released in 2009 by the label Db Productio
• Silfver Pelle Björnlert, violin; Johan Hedin, Nyckelharpa ; Nora Roll, viola da gamba ; Sven Åberg. Lute. Released in 2012 by the Dimma label

Web links

• http://www.svenaberg.com Homepage Sven Åbergs
• Works by and about Sven Åberg in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Sven Åberg at Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 4, 2018.
• Sven Åberg at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I Natt! I natt! In: http://www.vadstena-akademien.org . Vadstena Academies, 2006, accessed August 4, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Sven Åberg. In: https://www.kmh.se . Kungl. Musikhögskolan, June 18, 2018, accessed August 4, 2018 (Swedish).