This recording of Tranströmersånger (Tranströmer Songs) is from the award ceremony arranged by the Royal Swedish Musical Academy (Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien) in which the composer received the Christ Johnson Award (large prize) for his clarinet concerto "Worried Souls" in the hands of His Majesty King Carl Gustav XVI. The performers were Carina Vinke, alto and Eke Simons, piano. 

Tranströmersånger (Tranströmer Songs) was commissioned by New European Ensemble and dedicated to alto singer Carina Vinke and conductor Christian Karlsen. There is a piano version available with the two intermezzos omitted.

The poems are from the collection The Sad Gondola, written by the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. The title is as such derived from a work for piano solo by Franz Liszt 
”La lugubre gondola”. Musically seen I wanted to bring out the lyric and dramatic moods in these poems there you can picture the poetic content as a ”music drama without a stage”.


Mixed and edited by Anders Blomqvist.
Recorded live at Musikaliska, Stockholm, 27 november 2012.
Published by Gehrmans Musikförlag, Stockholm AB.

Tranströmersånger (piano version) Live at Musikaliska

En mididemo utav Through Purgatory to Paradise - Symphony No. 2
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Through Purgatory to Paradise - Symphony No. 2 Demo

Live recording Swedish Radio P2 from the world premiere April 7 2022.
Konserthuset, Stockholm.

Cathrine Winnes
Kungliga Filharmonikerna (Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra)

The basic ideas for Benjamin Staern’s Symphony No. 2 were born from Lili Boulanger’s orchestral work D’un soir triste. The incentive was an episode about sisters Nadia and Lili Boulanger in the series She composes like a man with conductor Cathrine Winnes as host.
But during the pandemic, work on the symphony took a new direction. The music was increasingly shaped
a reflection on our time with Corona, the digital revolution, times of crisis and total silence. Two literary works became another important starting point: Dante’s The Divine Comedy with the episode about the road through purgatory to paradise, and Boccaccio’s Decamerone where the teenagers are quarantined outside Florence during the plague and read to each other.
The symphony is also a stylistic turning point. ”After writing very massively orchestrally for ten years, I now wanted to compose more transparent and chamber music with a focus on melody,” says Benjamin Staern. He has also used certain names and keywords that are coded in the music, including Lili est mort, (Lili is dead), Paris, Stockholm, Kris and Corona which form melodic material.
 
The first movement, Isolation, begins with a high note
– a free transfer from Boulanger’s D’un soir triste. The sentence is slow and thoughtful. Clear sounds from high strings, vibraphone, glockenspiel, celesta, harp and solo performances from oboe and violin shape the isolation and emptiness.
 
The second movement, Struggling Through the Tunnel,
is a scherzo about dragging oneself towards the light
in the tunnel, a kind of inner utopia about the haunting Paradise.
 
The third movement, Confronting the Past, leads with descending scales and quarter tones down to the abyss. After reaching the bottom, everything turns up again and the music reaches a peak. 

Fourth and final movement, Journey to Paradise, where natural tones symbolize catharsis, the purification. It all ends with a hollowed-out sound in the orchestra that echoes the initial high note of the first movement.
 
The symphony is dedicated to Cathrine Winnes, her daughters Julie and Amalie.

Symphony No. 2; Through Purgatory To Paradise – Live from World Premiere 7 April 2022

It begins with a reversed ’big-bang’ chord and suddenly the wandering begins between the high and low ”coloured” brass instruments. The harmony is distorted by micro-tones and feels like looking through broken glass.

Colour Wandering

year of production 2008/2013

dedicated to my mother Harriet Staern Cronström;

commissioned by Helsingborgs Symphony Orchestra

awards recommended works among top-ten composers of 
International Rostrum of Composers 2014

duration 30‘ 

first performance 
April 6th 2014
Anna Larsson, alto
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor


En kärleksförklaring
Fr. Nietzsche:

(varunder diktaren föll i en grop)


O dröm!  Han flyger än.
Han stiger, vilande på vinge spänd.
Vad lyfter honom än?
Vad är hans mål -- hans väg, av ingen känd?

Eviga stjärnor lik
i rymder utan liv han vilar tryggt,
ömkande jordens skrik --
och högt flög den, som bara såg hans flykt.

O albatross i skyn!
En evig drift mot höjden driver mig.
Jag såg dig -- och min syn
blev blind av tårar.  Ja, jag älskar dig!

Sånger om bländvit kärlek: 1 En Kärleksförklaring

year of production 2008/2013

dedicated to my mother Harriet Staern Cronström;

commissioned by Helsingborgs Symphony Orchestra

awards recommended works among top-ten composers of 
International Rostrum of Composers 2014

duration 30‘ 

first performance 
April 6th 2014
Anna Larsson, alto
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor

Ängslan
Svek, svek --
annat var aldrig mitt liv.
All min skam,
penna, stackare, skriv.
Skriv om vägar långt, långt
bort från mitt sanna,
skriv om en mur kring allt som var bäst...
Nej, stanna.

Outredda mörkers hot
fyller mitt sinn.
Åskdiger knoppningstid
än är min.
Jag vill vara stilla,
bida och se,
vänta på solen,
sakta le.

Vad sker i mörkret,
medan jag ler?
Dör min själ?
Hittar jag hem ej mer?
Gud, Gud, behåll
en glimt allen
av mitt allvar
ren, ren!

Sånger om bländvit kärlek: 4 Ängslan

Saiyah - Scene E

Uruppförande av minioperan Det svältande hjärtat av Benjamin Staern, text: Tor Lind

Denna miniopera handlar om en komplex relation mellan modern och barnet där mamman lider av borderline. Här får vi höra fyra scener samt en epilog. Barnet berättar hela sin upplevelse som en inre dialog med sig själv. 

Framfört av Magdalena Risberg, Janne Risberg och Sonanza
Grünewaldsalen, Konserthuset
24 november 2023.

Det Svältande Hjärtat uruppförande 24 Nov 23

En konstrunda ute i Limhamn under påsken 2011 såg jag en tavla med teatermasker med de klassiska ansiktena, drama = ledsen och komedi = glad. Den är målad av Malmökonstnären Hans Acates Holmström som sedan pryder hemmet, sätter fantasin igång på ett drama som bildar en själ. Verket är en diptyk i två satser och det börjar dramatiskt med en morseliknade motiv som sen snabbt övergår i en svart komedi och allmänt väldigt dyster i karaktären. De andra satsen som följer därefter är en lyrisk, melodisk sats där all klanglig gestik i föregående sats blir mer utslätad och vacker. Den slutar i ett slags frågetecken och det är själen som flyger.   

Två själar, en tanke (Live from the world premiere September 30th 2014)

Five Episodes for violin and guitar (2010). Commissioned by Duo Kemi; Jacob Kellermann and Daniel Migdal. 

Composed during Fall 2010 in Malmö and Leiden, Netherlands. This piece was composed in close collaboration with the aforementioned duo . 

Fem episoder

work comments
It revolves around the artist Hilma af Klint’s life and hers 
not entirely conflict-free relationship with the founder of anthroposophy Rudolf Steiner. 
Not all material was created use in the final version of the opera. 
The composer has now chosen to highlight this his five Hilma Scenes. 
The first scene is a lament to Hilma’s mother, 
the second a musical design by Hilma af Klint’s iconic painting Altarpiece, shaped like a large pyramid. 
The third movement, Seance, refers to creative processes with elements of fire and incense and it fourth paints Hilma’s visions of the two world wars. The fifth and final scene is a farewell to life.

instruments small chamber ensemble – 1 flute/piccolo, 1 clarinet/bass clarinet, 1 percussion, piano, violin, cello.
commissioner Norrbottenmusiken/Norrbotten NEO

 

year of production 2018/20

 

dedication Norrbotten NEO and Petter Sundkvist

 

movements  
I. A First and Final Journey (Lament to Hilma’s mother); II. Altarpiece; III. Seance; IV. Prediction of War; V. Epilogue


duration 15’   


first performance 

April 10 2022,

Grünewaldsalen, Stockholm
Benjamin Staern Tonsättarweekend
Norrbotten NEO
Petter Sundkvist

Hilma Scenes

Mats Rondin; Huaröds kammarorkester

Live October 5 2002, Sigmahuset, Malmö
Music Around 2002

Muramaris Live oktober 2002

Recorded and edited from general rehearsal and concert November 14th 2014, Gävle

Gävle Symphony Orchestra
Leif Segerstam, conductor

Polar Vortex or polar vortices cause dramatic weather events, such as 50 degrees below zero in the US a few years ago, volcanic or meteor outbursts, extreme heat, cold or storms. It is a tonal journey in three sets of weather conditions around the world and are not intended as program music, but that it is "music with inner images." 

The first movement "Frozen City" is described as a city in total frostbite and a lot of snow around it where the sun shines brightly through the window. Now and then we hear the winds that pass by. 

The second movement "Northern Lights" has an aurora-like shimmer of the orchestral part using harmonic loops in a meditative state. The heat rises, lava flows up over the landscape in the score it says clearly "like a lava activity" and all the ice begins to melt. 

The third movement "Volcanic Eruption" (Finale) is a ritual dance with passion and pagan rites. One hears riffar from percussion that thunders on in the score "Like a pagan dance!". Some elements from previous movements show up, the whole thing spins further and leading to a disco-like finale with trumpets in the lead.

Symphony no.1; Polar Vortex Live from Gävle World Premiere

Filip Draglund; trumpet solo
Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester
Nazanin Agkahani

Recorded live from the world premiere by Swedish Radio P2.
 

Surprise! Concertino For Trumpet And Small Orchestra

I wanted for a long time to write music that is danceable and can in many ways be physically received when listening to it. Godai means " the five great elements " in Japanese and has a background in Japanese philosophy about martial arts and is a Buddhist term with some influences from Hinduism. The Buddhist philosophy is perhaps best known in the West for their use by the samurai Miyamoto Musashi's famous text, The Book of Five Rings, which he explains different aspects of swordsmanship and martial arts by assigning every aspect of each element. The different properties are interconnected and also to keep the balance between these elements. The five elements are formed on the basis of the well-known basic elements: earth, water, fire , air, and the fifth element is a shadow , ie . the sum of all elements into one unit . The . In the instrumentation included except triple woodwind, brass, strings, harp, celesta, piano and percussion, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, tubular bells, gong, xylophone, marimba for more Asian instruments like i.e. opera-gongs, java gongs, china cymbal, temple bowls and crotales (antique cymbals).
The work is divided into four movements, performed without interruption. 
 
Recorded and broadcasted live on Swedish Radio P2.
15 May 2014
Malmö Konserthuset
Marc Soustrot
Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Godai Sats 1 Excerpt

Since childhood I've always loved water and wants to compose series of pieces refering to ocean, sea, lakes, ponds and so forth as a point of reference.
Wave motion is a physical phenomenon that involves a field or a disturbance of a medium propagating in space. It is music that is gradually transformed as the piece goes on. It is like watching a wave that washes over one, a stunning spectacle, and that reflects like a mirror. You can also experience great rapids and streams along the course of the work.
 
From a musical perspective, I have tried to give the work shape based on a harmonic idea where things encounter one another, are reflected and create disturbances in various ways. This leads to a more developmental kind of thinking in the compositional process. Out of this one can clearly distinguish three parts that overlap. The form has a freely ternary form structure of ABA.
 
1. Rhythmic, suggestive exhortation
2. Melodic, mystical middle section
3. Chorale, when the elements above are mixed together
 
The instrumentation used are based from the classical period of Mozart and Beethoven which includes double winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani,percussion as glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba, cymbals, gong and strings. The sounds may give you the impression of the above mentioned composers but without quoting or imitating any piece in a post-modern way sending postcards from the past.
 
Wave-Movements was composed on commission from Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie and is dedicated to the conductor Daniel Raiskin.
 
Benjamin Staern

Wave - Movements Newmix

Muramaris means literally "the herd by the sea". It's an artist's resident (10 km from the town of Visby) in which was built some years after the turn of the 20th century. With its very ascetic frontal and its beautiful interior, you will get a feeling that it is soon going to collapse! The music starts from nothing and is projecting towards different directions in a surrealistic world. You will find also a fireplace made by sandstone and a sculpture portraying "the goddess of love", which is struck by the last sunbeams during midsummer time.
If you touch these items unnecessarily they will break down and vanish like a desert storm.

Performed by Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and Stefan Solyom conducting, live recording from Die Glocke, Bremen november 27 2007.


Muramaris was composed during summer 2000 in Visby and partially at home in Malmö.


This piece is dedicated to the composer Mattias Svensson, teacher and head master at the Gotland School of Composition.




Muramaris

The title refers to crisis situations, for example in Kosovo during the years of 1998-1999. The first introductory measures express the threat of war in that region. The music is inspired by the shocking warfootage from newsbroadcasts on television and in daily newspapers. You can imagine yourself experiencing the warfare in your own country, the terror and being forced to escape. In the background underlies also folk-musical structures i.e african clave-rhythms (4:3 polyrhythm) as a connection with the crisis in the Kongo-Kinshasa region in which went on at the same time as in Kosovo.
This work was composed to the annual project called "The Composers of Tomorrow 2000"between the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of Music in Malmö. It was judged as "best orchestral work" by the musicians of the orchestra and was performed later on the Young Soloists Concert in the Concert Hall in Helsingborg.
Other important performances could be mentioned like the Young Nordic Music Festival (UNM) in Reykjavik, Iceland and Stockholm New Music 2003.
The Threat of War has been nominated by the Swedish Music Publishers Association (SMFF) Award in the category "The most significant contemporary music work of the year" in 2005.

Published by Gehrmans Musikförlag AB, Stockholm.

The Threat of War

Recorded live from the Stockholm premiere by Swedish Radio P2
4 april 2017, Berwaldhallen, Stockholm.

Filip Draglund; Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester; Ben Gernon

Surprise: concertino för trumpet och liten orkester

Stefan Solyom, conductor
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Recorded live October 12th 2017 at De Geer Hall, Norrköping, Sweden.

Polar Vortex or polar vortices cause dramatic weather events, such as 50 degrees below zero in the US a few years ago, volcanic or meteor outbursts, extreme heat, cold or storms. It is a tonal journey in three sets of weather conditions around the world and are not intended as program music, but that it is "music with inner images."

The first movement "Frozen City" is described as a city in total frostbite and a lot of snow around it where the sun shines brightly through the window. Now and then we hear the winds that pass by.

The second movement "Northern Lights" has an aurora-like shimmer of the orchestral part using harmonic loops in a meditative state. The heat rises, lava flows up over the landscape in the score it says clearly "like a lava activity" and all the ice begins to melt.

The third movement "Volcanic Eruption" (Finale) is a ritual dance with passion and pagan rites. One hears riffs from percussion that thunders on in the score "Like a pagan dance!". Some elements from previous movements show up, the whole thing spins further and leading to a disco-like finale with trumpets in the lead.

Polar Vortex Symphony

Since childhood I've always loved water and wants to compose series of pieces refering to ocean, sea, lakes, ponds and so forth as a point of reference.

Wave motion is a physical phenomenon that involves a field or a disturbance of a medium propagating in space. It is music that is gradually transformed as the piece goes on. It is like watching a wave that washes over one, a stunning spectacle, and that reflects like a mirror. You can also experience great rapids and streams along the course of the work.

 

From a musical perspective, I have tried to give the work shape based on a harmonic idea where things encounter one another, are reflected and create disturbances in various ways. This leads to a more developmental kind of thinking in the compositional process. Out of this one can clearly distinguish three parts that overlap. The form has a freely ternary form structure of ABA.

 

1. Rhythmic, suggestive exhortation

2. Melodic, mystical middle section

3. Chorale, when the elements above are mixed together

 

The instrumentation used are based from the classical period of Mozart and Beethoven which includes double winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani,percussion as glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba, cymbals, gong and strings. The sounds may give you the impression of the above mentioned composers but without quoting or imitating any piece in a post-modern way sending postcards from the past.

 

Wave-Movements was composed on commission from Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie and is dedicated to the conductor Daniel Raiskin.

 

Published by Gehrmans Musikförlag AB, Stockholm

Excerpt Live from the world premiere performance at Görreshaus in Koblenz May 30th 2011
by permssion from Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie


Wave Movements - Excerpt Live World Premiere Staatsorch.Rhein.Phil./Daniel Raiskin

The title refers to crisis situations, for example in Kosovo during the years of 1998-1999. The first introductory measures express the threat of war in that region. The music is inspired by the shocking warfootage from newsbroadcasts on television and in daily newspapers. You can imagine yourself experiencing the warfare in your own country, the terror and being forced to escape. In the background underlies also folk-musical structures i.e african clave-rhythms (4:3 polyrhythm) as a connection with the crisis in the Kongo-Kinshasa region in which went on at the same time as in Kosovo.
This work was composed to the annual project called "The Composers of Tomorrow 2000"between the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of Music in Malmö. It was judged as "best orchestral work" by the musicians of the orchestra and was performed later on the Young Soloists Concert in the Concert Hall in Helsingborg.
Other important performances could be mentioned like the Young Nordic Music Festival (UNM) in Reykjavik, Iceland and Stockholm New Music 2003.
The Threat of War has been nominated by the Swedish Music Publishers Association (SMFF) Award in the category "The most significant contemporary music work of the year" in 2005.

Excerpt live from a performance with Norrköping SO and Stefan Solyom conducting on November 27th 2004
Published by Gehrmans Musikförlag AB, Stockholm.

The threat of war - Excerpt live Norrköping SO/Stefan Solyom Nov 2004

Live recording from the world premiere 16 February 2012
Karin Dornbusch, clarinets
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor

Worried Souls 1. Introduction Excerpt

Live recording from the world premiere 16 February 2012 
Karin Dornbusch, clarinets 
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra 
Stefan Solyom, conductor

Worried Souls. 2. Rhapsody Excerpt

Writing for the clarinet and bass clarinet also is a challenge but also there are fantastic possibilities available that has affected work on the solo part and orchestration and vice versa. 
The origins of this concerto and its title  refers to "an artists' worried souls in an industrial and harsh dystopian society". The music conveys curiosity, spontaneity, playfulness, violence, hard decisions, hopelessness and ultimately its downfall! There is also a sharp criticism of the closures of well-established company that quickly builds up and eventually dismantled because of its time of decadence.

There is a narrative behind the music but the composer has chosen to tell it in the music rather than literally describing exactly what happens in the musical events but want to give freedom to the listener to imagine the way it sounds and what you get for shows.

First movement Introduction - has a sad and searching character as if you were in a fog. The clarinet is expressed in the score "espressivo con melancolia" (expressive of melancholy) and the orchestra is always restrained by then erupts in a huge roar. Clarinet becomes hysterical, and this leads to a dizzying cadenza with the orchestra's clarinets and which eventually fades the kit.

Live performance from the world premiere 16 February 2012, Karin Dornbusch, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Solyom.

Benjamin Staern

Worried Souls 1. Introduction

Benjamin Staern Konnakol Variations for percussion solo and winds
Lauri Metsvahi; percussion solo
Swedish Wind Ensemble (Blåsarsymfonikerna);
Cathrine Winnes.

Live recording from Eesti Kontserdisaal, Tallinn, Estonia 
March 23 2019, by Estonian Radio (ERR). 

Estonian premiere!

Konnakol Variations Live Recording - Tallinn March 23 2019

Lauri Metsvahi; slagverk
Blåsarsymfonikerna
Cathrine Winnes

16 mars 2019, Musikaliska, Stockholm
Svensk musikvår 2019
Uruppförande!

Konnakol Variations - Uruppförande 20190316

Tranströmersånger by Benjamin Staern. Live concert recording, Malmö (Sweden), as part of the New European Ensemble's 2010 Sweden Tour with artists Carina Vinke, New European Ensemble and Christian Karlsen conducting.

Tranströmersånger (Tranströmer Songs) was commissioned by New European Ensemble and dedicated to alto singer Carina Vinke and conductor  Christian Karlsen. There is a piano version available with the two intermezzos omitted.

The poems are from the collection The Sad Gondola, written by the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. The title is as such derived from a work for piano solo by Franz Liszt 
”La lugubre gondola”. Musically seen I wanted to bring out the lyric and dramatic moods in these poems there you can picture the poetic content as a ”music drama without a stage”.

Mixed and edited by Ronald Boersen.
Recorded live at Caroli Kyrka, Malmö 13 October 2010.

Published by Gehrmans Musikförlag, Stockholm AB.

Tranströmersånger (2009-10) för alt och serenadensemble

Fluxus (means “to flow” in Latin).

It represents different kinds of flows that occur during the course of the piece. In this case it concerns with two elements: harmonic and rhythmic states.
You can easily divide this work into three sections:


1. Floating, harmonic

2. Rhythmical, dancing

3. Merging of these above-mentioned elements.


The listener is free to find out what exists in these sections.


Fluxus was commissioned to the Kumla Organ Festival 2008 and is dedicated to organist
Hans Fagius

Published by Gehrmans Musikförlag, Stockholm AB

Fluxus

En mididemo utav Pippi lyfter hästen. 

Komponerades på beställning från Sveriges Radio P2 .
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Pippi Lyfter Hästen Demo

När jag fick beställningen till Haga Duo som består utav Sareidah Hildebrand och Joakim Lundström så tog det mig ett tag hur jag skulle skriva ett stycke för denna portabla duo. Allt började med en impuls från en app på min iPad kallat Gestrument uppfunnen av Jesper Nordin där vem som helst kan tappa in digitalt rytmer, grooves, skalor m.m. Redan då fick jag ur grundmaterialet till första takterna i första delen på verket och lät de sakta men säkert stycket växa fram. Efter den impulsen kände man att jag ville gå med det lekfulla i musiken än att förhålla sig slaviskt till en maskin men musikaliteten och det spontana finns kvar. Första delen börjar med en 7/8-bossa rytm som övergår i en hel idel förskjutningar och tills slut danser därav verkets titel Opposing Dance (Motsatta Danser). Andra delen är en sångbar och lyriskt avsnitt likt en tonsatt dikt utan ord och senare rivande final där all material som presenterats tidigare stuvas om och leder till ett hårdrocksvrål mot slutet av verket.

Haga Duo live Västerås Konserthus

Opposing Dance for flute and guitar

Benjamin Staern (b. 1978) started his musical experience with studies in cello, piano and percussion in his youth. Studies in musicology at Lund University and subsequently studied composition at the Malmö Academy of Music during 1998-2005 with Rolf Martinsson, Hans Gefors and Luca Francesconi, and made an early breakthrough, while still a student at the Malmö Academy of Music, with the symphonic work The Threat of War (1999). 

From this point on, Staern has developed a deeply personal style with an output including orchestral and chamber works, solo pieces and electroacoustic music. An interesting aspect of his work as a composer is his unusual ability to associate tones and timbres with different colours and tints. This is a variant of a phenomenon called synaesthesia which is fundamental in his perception and the creation of his music, and which is reflected in his sound world as well as in many of his work titles (Yellow Skies, Colour Wandering etc.) 

Today Staern receives commissions on a regular basis. Looking into the near future, he is commissioned to write a major work for Malmö Symphony Orchestra and song cycle for alto Anna Larsson and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. From September 2010 he is composer-in-residence with New European Ensemble for them he composed works from this collaboration such as Tranströmersånger (selected poems from the Sad Gondola - collection by Nobel-prize author and poet Tomas Tranströmer) and Bells and Waves (Chamber Symphony), winner of the SMFF Award 2011 in the category ”most important work in chamber music/smaller ensemble”.

Works by Benjamin Staern is today performed not only by all the major Swedish orchestras but also internationally by orchestras such as the MDR Sinfonieorchester, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Staern has collaborated with ensembles including New European Ensemble, Sonanza Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble Aspekte and Stockholm Chamber Brass. Soloists include Håkan Hardenberger, Anna Larsson, Johannes Möller, Karin Dornbusch, Carina Vinke, Gitta-Maria Sjöberg, Philippe Cassard and conductors Michael Christie, Daniel Raiskin, Christian Karlsen, Mats Rondin, Mika Eichenholz and Stefan Solyom.

Benjamin Staern Composer

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