Musicians

After studying with Hermann Stefansson at Framnäs Music school Robert began at the Royal college of Music in Stockholm 1994. There he studied for professor Sölve Kingstedt. After graduation in the spring 1998 he spent a year in USA studying for Håkan Rosengren. Robert has also taken lesson for Karl Leister, Yehuda Gilad and Mitchell Lurie.

Robert has since 2000 been working in Swedish orchestras but also focusing on working with different chamber ensembles recording several CD:s and premiered a number of works from mostly Swedish composers. As a soloist he has performed with Nordic Chamber Orchestra among others and collaborated with pianists like Bengt-Åke Lundin, Laura Barger and Mårten Landström. Robert has also premiered solo pieces of Jesper Nordin and Ray Naessen.

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Concert Pianist Marten Landström, born 1966 in Uppsala, has been active as a soloist and chamber musician since the early nineties.
He began playing the piano and learned to read music when he was five years old, and was admitted at the age of sixteen to Musikhögskolan in Stockholm. This was followed by advanced studies at the Royal College of Music in London.

Among the teachers he studied with include Yonty Solomon, Tatyana Nikolayeva and Irene Mannheimer. During his studies, Marten Landström was awarded numerous grants and awards.

Mårten Landström is an avid interpreter of contemporary music and has premiered both solo and chamber music concerts, often in close collaboration with many of today's most prominent composers.

He is also a member of ensembles "Pärlor för svin" and "Gageego", two of Sweden's leading ensembles for contemporary music. For several years Marten Landström was engaged by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra as a pianist. He has also wrked as musical director for Läckö Slottsopera.

Principal percussionist in Norrbotten-NEO
Member of Global Percussion Network
Director of Percussion Studies at
the School of Music, Luleå University of Technology

Born into a family of musicians, Swedish percussionist Daniel Saur’s future was predestined: a life in music! He focused his musical studies on percussion early on, and studied at the Music Conservatory in Falun, before joining the Royal Swedish Army Band. After chamber music studies at the Percussive Institute at Framnäs, he later completed his degree at the School of Music in Piteå in 2000 and has since then worked as a freelance musician and percussion teacher.

Daniel regularly commission and World Premiere pieces for both solo percussion and percussion with pre-recorded audio/electronics and he promotes the percussion in the chamber music setting by working closely together with composers.

Since 2001 Daniel holds the position of Director of Percussion Studies at the School of Music in Piteå at Luleå University of Technology, and he did run the Percussive Institute at Framnäs between 2004-2007. During 2007 Daniel had a 6 month residency at Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (UNICACH) in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas in southern Mexico.

Daniel is a founding member of the professional percussion ensemble Global Percussion Network. With GPN he has given performances, seminars, and master classes throughout Europe, North and South America, and Asia, including radio and television broadcasts in Sweden, the U.S., Mexico and Japan. GPN have released three CD’s and two more are scheduled to be released during 2009.

As a composer Daniel has received numerous commissions and has had his works premiered in Sweden, Mexico, Argentina, USA and Japan.

Daniel is an endorser of Innovative Percussion and LP.

Born in 1982 Christian started to play the violin at the age of 5.

At age 12 he made his debut as soloist with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. After having completed compulsory school, he was admitted to the violin class at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and at the age of 19 won the prestigious Ljunggrenska Competition of Music in Gothenburg, making his first appearance on the Swedish Radio station.

In 2003 he completed his diploma studies at the Royal College of Music with a jubilant perfomance of Carl Nielsens violin concerto with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

In 2004 Christian was accepted to the Juilliard School in New York for violin studies with the legendary Robert Mann. He completed the two-year program in one year with the distinction of ”highest honour”. During his time of study in the US, Christian Svarfvar performed on a number of occasions, with ensembles such as the Swedish Chamber Orchestra (as soloist in Tchaikovsky's violin concerto) and the Stockholm Sinfonietta. He also appeared numerous times in chamber music and violin recitals at Lincoln Center, New York. During this period the Swedish National TV and Swedish TV4 filmed a documentary about his life at the Juilliard School .

In 2008 Christian played the acclaimed world premiere of Howard Shore´s violin concerto, Eastern Promises, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Stockholm.

He has worked with conductors such as Hannu Lintu, Vassily Sinaisky, Douglas Boyd, Howard Shore, Marin Alsop and Jorma Panula, and has received major scholarships from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, The American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Juilliard School of Music.

Highlights: Rising Star 2007/2008 including solo concerts in the most prestigious concert halls in the world in cities such as Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, Cologne, and in New York`s Carnegie Hall. (Christian was appointed by the European Concert Hall Organization.)

David was born in 1981 and started to play the cello at the age of seven. He later studied at the Edsberg music institute with professor Torleif Thedéen. David has performed as a soloist with several swedish orchestras such as Dalasinfoniettan and the Helsingborg symphony orchestra. In 2000 he represented Sweden in the international EBU competition for young musicians. Besides his fascination with contemporary music David also has an interest in the early repertoire and has performed with some of Europe's most prominent baroque and classical orchestras such as Les Musiciens du Louvre, Concerto Copenhagen, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Arte dei Suonatori and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie.