Karin Rehnqvist
Karin Rehnqvist ( born August 21, 1957 in Stockholm ) is an internationally known Swedish composer and conductor of classical music. It was appointed in 2009 as the first woman to hold a chair of composition at the Royal College of Music Stockholm. She composes chamber music, orchestral works, stage works and especially vocal music, while incorporating elements of folk music, including vocal technique Kulning.
Life
Rehnqvist was born in Stockholm and raised in Nybro. She studied music education from 1976 to 1980 at the Royal College of Music Stockholm and graduated in composition studies to 1984, among other things, with Gunnar Bucht, Pär Lindgren and Brian Ferneyhough. From 1976 to 1991 she led the choir Stans body. From 2000 to 2003 she was Composer in Residence at Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Svenska Kammarorkestern. She composed for them including a clarinet concerto for Martin Fröst and the orchestral work Arctic Arctic! , Which was inspired by a polar expedition in Summer 1999. Both works have been recorded in 2005. The choral symphony Light of Light for Children's Choir and Orchestra was premiered in Paris in 2004. 2009 Rehnqvist was the first woman to be appointed to a professorship for composition of the Royal College of Music Stockholm.
Composition
The composer incorporates elements of folk music into their works, for example Kulning ( Kuhlocken ), a vocal technique used shepherdesses to call their animals. Many of their compositions were written for the voices of Lena will Mark and Susanne Rosenberg, known as folk singers, for example, take David and Puksånger - lockrop (1989).
Rehnqvist composed in 1994 Solsången ( Canticle ) for chamber orchestra with a singer and two narrators. The text is partly based on the old Icelandic Sólarljóð.
Awards
In 1996 Rehnqvist the Läkerol Arts Award " for her renewal of the relationship in between folk music and art music" ( for their renewal of the relationship between folk music and art music) and the Spelmannen Prize Expressen. In 1997 she received the Christ Johnson Prize for Solsången. In 2001 she was awarded the Kurt Atterberg Prize and 2005/ 06 the Rosenberg Award. In March 2006, she was honored with a retrospective of her works by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Niklas Willén. In 2007 she was awarded the Hugo Alfvén Prize. 2014, it received a Grammis in the category Classic for the CD Live.