SEMF 2017
Stockholm Early Music Festival 2017
June 1 – 6 2017 in the Old Town
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PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION BEFORE PURCHASING YOUR SEMFESTIVALPASS!
The SEMFestivalpass gives you entrance to Stockholm Early Music Festival 2017. In the German Church you can choose your own permanent seat (the same seat for all evening concerts) within the raws 5-6-7 in the A-section. IMPORTANT: when you have made your choice online you will be linked to a box with the question: "Säsongskort? This event is included in a season offer, would you like to purchase regular tickets or a seasonal ticket?". Please choose "I want to purchase season tickets" ("Säsongskort" is an internal denomination used by our ticket distribution provider Tickster corresponding to our "SEMFestivalpass") in order to continue with your purchase. In the Riddarholmen church the pass is valid for selected parquet seats.
A printed copy of the festival programme booklet is included! When purchasing on the Internet, please collect your pass in the festival ticket office by showing your printed online ticket. If you book your pass through the festival phone, you will receive information about payment and collection when you book. Telephone hours and number can be found here. The price for the SEMFestivalpass is 1 850 SEK. Please note that the pass is valid for all events except the Early Late Night Concert. |
19:00 - 22:30 |
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 Festive SEMFestival opening with the Norwegian boy soprano Aksel Rykkvin, with an international career! Do not miss this unique chance to listen to Aksel's baroque arias, his voice change might soon occur!
NB! No additional ticket is needed. Entrance to the adjacent concert with Huelgas Ensemble includes this performance as well, see below! Aksel Rykkvin |
19:30 - 20:00The German Church |
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 Opening concert (includes Aksel Rykkvin as well)Huelgas Ensemble - Dir. Paul van NevelFlanders - a World of PolyphonyA wonderful, colourful portrait of the great age of Franco-Flemish polyphony! After forty years and sixty recordings, Belgian Huelgas Ensemble, under Paul van Nevel’s direction, is one of the most celebrated ensembles, specialising in polyphonic music from the Medieval and Renaissance periods, delighting audiences worldwide with fresh perspectives and the purest intonation. Works by Binchois, Dufay, Ockeghem, Desprez, de la Rue, Gombert and Lassus.
In cooperation with the Embassy of Belgium.
Tickets SEK 100; 220; 350; 450 Huelgas Ensemble |
20:00 - 22:00The German Church |
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 EARLY MUSIC FOR CHILDRENCamilla Kandare • Helena Lambert • Catalina LangbornA Dancing Queen! Court Ballet, à la Queen ChristinaNote! School performance. Not open for the general audience. (in Swedish) Drottningen Dansar |
10:30 - 11:15The Royal Armoury |
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CONCERTDråmWith Martin Luther in the Kingdom of Birds - music between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"Music is the best remedy for a person in despair". These are the words of Martin Luther, reformist, music loverand an ccomplished lute player who enjoyed singing and dancing. Listen to the music familar to Luther, as well as to his own compositions. Dråm consists of the accomplished master folk musicians Anna Rynefors and Erik Ask-Upmark who play various instruments.
Tickets: SEK 100 Admission: 15 min before the concert Dråm |
12:00 - 13:00The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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Tickets: SEK 100 Admission: 15 min before the show In Swedish! |
14:00 - 15:00 |
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 La Coulicam...La Rameau...La Cupis...La Pouplinière - such are the character tiltles that we find in Rameau's "Pièces de clavecin en concerts". A musical reflection "à la française" of patrons and friends of the composer? Violinist Florence Malgoire, violonist Markku Luolajan-Mikkola and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani make up the brilliant BRQ Ensemble, based in Finland and with the world as their stage.
Tickets: SEK 130; 230 Admission: 30 min before the concert |
18:00 - 19:00Riddarholmen Church |
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 We all remember them. For more than half a century, the London based Swingle Singers have pushed the boundaries of a cappella music. From J S Bach's soulful instrumental works transformed into a vocal universe to the recreating of folk music expressions, these talented seven young singers host SEMFs early music scene for the first time. Don't miss the Swingles' unique and rich sound world, as well as its different, innovative and fascinating approach to historic and traditional repertoire. Powerful and surprising! The Swingle Singers are using microphones during their performance.
Tickets: SEK 100; 220; 350; 450 Admission: 30 min before the concert The Swingle Singers |
20:30 - 22:30The German Church |
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During the EARLY LATE NIGHT CONCERT you can comfortaby lean back on a matress and listen to early music in a relaxed position, in candle light!
Sankt Eriksolisterna is a new rising star in the Swedish sky of vocal quartets – singers in high demand, specialized on solo-ensemble-singing.
Tickets: 150 SEK. Limited number of matresses/seats. SEMFestivalpass is not valid for this concert! Admission: 15 minutes before the concert Sankt Eriksolisterna |
23:00 - 23:45The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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EARLY MUSIC FOR CHILDRENCamilla Kandare • Helena Lambert • Catalina LangbornA Dancing Queen! Court Ballet, à la Queen ChristinaCurious about peeping on Baroque dance and music from the 17th century? Come and get acquainted with a young woman with strong personality - Sweden's Queen Kristina! Welcome to meet the queen, her dance master and court musician and see what happens when a ballet is set at the castle!
Tickets: SEK 90 (Free admittance for children up to 12 years old)
Admission: 15 min before the performance In Swedish! Drottningen Dansar |
10:30 - 11:15The Royal Armoury |
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Winners of the Nordic-Baltic EAR-ly 2016 competition for young early music artists, Juho Myllylä and Miron Andres are offering a selection of French rondeaux, virelais and ballatas of the late medieval and early renaissance times, a musical period, filled with a sense of serenity, restrained sensuality and an ever-present death.
Tickets: SEK 90 Admission: 15 min before the concert Contactus |
12:00 - 13:00The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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For the fifth time, SEMF has the pleasure of including an exhibition of historical instruments in the festival programme. European instrument makers display their treasures.
Exhibitors:
Andrew Brown Baroque String Instruments – Andrew Brown, Baroque and early stringed instruments and bows
Oboes Históricos – Historical oboes and supplies
Early Keyboards 1700 – Dan Johansson -Instrument reconditioning and maintenance of early keyboard instruments
Free admission |
13:00 - 18:00Mäster Olofsgården |
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Tickets: SEK 100 Admission: 15 min before the seminar The Swingle Singers |
14:00 - 15:00The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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 Tradaa! The skilled improvisations of the town pipers can be heared from the tower! Come along on a tour through different music styles in the courtly and bourgeois Europe of the Renaissance! With almost thousand concerts on its CV, German Capella de la Torre led by Katharina Bäuml is considered one of the world's leading early music wind ensembles. Works by Ludwig Senfl and Caspar Othmayer, among others, will be performed.
Tickets: SEK 130; 230 Admission: 30 min before the concert Capella de la Torre |
18:00 - 19:00Riddarholmen Church |
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 "Outstanding, sensitive and pure in quality" is how Gramophone describes the Norwegian mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland's voice. Enjoy it together with the excellent and warm countertenor of Spanish Carlos Mena, backed up by the dynamic and highly successful Norwegian baroque orchestra Barokkanerne. Don't miss Pergolesi's Stabat Mater - for the first and perhaps only time time during SEMF!
In cooperation with the Embassy of Norway.
Tickets: SEK 100; 170; 290; 390 Admission: 30 min before the concert |
20:30 - 22:30The German Church |
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During the EARLY LATE NIGHT CONCERT you can comfortaby lean back on a matress and listen to early music in a relaxed position, in candle light!
Sankt Eriksolisterna is a new rising star in the Swedish sky of vocal quartets – singers in high demand, specialized on solo-ensemble-singing.
Tickets: 150 SEK. Limited number of matresses/seats. SEMFestivalpass is not valid for this concert! Admission: 15 minutes before the concert Sankt Eriksolisterna |
23:00 - 23:45The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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EARLY MUSIC FOR CHILDRENCamilla Kandare • Helena Lambert • Catalina LangbornA Dancing Queen! Court Ballet à la Queen Christina
Curious about peeping on Baroque dance and music from the 17th century? Come and get acquainted with a young woman with strong personality - Sweden's Queen Kristina! Welcome to meet the queen, her dance master and court musician and see what happens when a ballet is set at the castle!
Tickets: SEK 90 (Free admittance for children up to 12 years old)
Admission: 15 min before the performance In Swedish! Drottningen Dansar |
10:30 - 11:15The Royal Armoury |
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 The native culture of Taiwan is an exciting chapter, unknown for most of us. Take this unique chance to meet the music and dance of the Amis - a matrilineal society - who call themselves “The Nation of the Sun”, and of Bunun tribe (“hunters”). A special performance for SEMF by Ms. Daya Paring Malikay. Tickets: SEK 100 Admission: 15 min before the concert |
12:00 - 13:00The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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For the fifth time, SEMF has the pleasure of including an exhibition of historical instruments in the festival programme. European instrument makers display their treasures.
Exhibitors:
Andrew Brown Baroque String Instruments – Andrew Brown, Baroque and early stringed instruments and bows
Oboes Históricos – Historical oboes and supplies
Early Keyboards 1700 – Dan Johansson -Instrument reconditioning and maintenance of early keyboard instruments
Free admission
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12:00 - 17:00Mäster Olofsgården |
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Tickets: SEK 120 Admission: 15 min before the seminar Michael Levy |
14:00 - 15:00The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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 At the same time as the fortepiano victoriously entered the scene starting in 1760, the viol was singing its swan song. Let yourselves be enchanted by the exciting and very exclusive sound combination of these two instruments in the intensely expressive power of master viol player Lorenz Duftschmid and the excellent performance of Sebastian Wienand. Music by J S Bach, Teleman and C Ph E Bach.
In cooperation with the Embassy of Austria.
Tickets: SEK 130; 230 Admission: 30 min before the concert |
17:30 - 18:30Riddarholmen Church |
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 The French Ensemble Organum, founded and lead by Marcel Pérès, has internationally been, since 1982, at the forefront of European music history's most original sacred vocal repertoire from the 6th century onwards. With their very first visit to Sweden, Ensemble Organum will give us the opportunity to rediscover two amazing and powerful musical worlds: the church song in Rome during the 13th century together with the polyphony of the 14th century.
Tickets: SEK 100; 170; 290; 390 Admission: 30 min before the concert Ensemble Organum |
19:30 - 21:00The German Church |
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In a long cultural history of male dominance, creative women have o en had to play an in- conspicuous part, this being the case also for female composers of early music. The forum ”AnonymA – early music girl power” is led by the American-Italian singer and musicologist Candace Smith.
In cooperation with Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
Free admission (limited number of seats) Christina L Malmberg |
17:00 - 19:00The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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 CONCERTCappella Artemisia - Dir. Candace SmithThe Nobility and Excellence of Women: Female composers in Italy around 1600Magdalena Casulana, Vittoria Aleotti, Caterina Assandra, Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Alba Tressina, Claudia Sessa… sound familiar to you? If not, it’s time to open your senses to the qualities of Italian Renaissance women composers. Cappella Artemisia from Bologna led by Candace Smith, specialized on the subject, has received critical and popular praise, both for the rarity and originality of their repertoire, and for their distinguished performances.
With the support of the Swedish Performing Arts Agency
Tickets: SEK 100; 170; 290; 390 Admission: 30 min before the concert Cappella Artemisia |
20:30 - 22:30The German Church |
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During the EARLY LATE NIGHT CONCERT you can comfortaby lean back on a matress and listen to early music in a relaxed position, in candle light!
Sankt Eriksolisterna is a new rising star in the Swedish sky of vocal quartets – singers in high demand, specialized on solo-ensemble-singing.
Tickets: 150 SEK. Limited number of matresses/seats. SEMFestivalpass is not valid for this concert! Admission: 15 minutes before the concert Sankt Eriksolisterna |
23:00 - 23:45The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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EARLY MUSIC FOR CHILDRENCamilla Kandare • Helena Lambert • Catalina LangbornCourt Ballet à la Queen Christina
Curious about peeping on Baroque dance and music from the 17th century? Come and get acquainted with a young woman with strong personality - Sweden's Queen Kristina! Welcome to meet the queen, her dance master and court musician and see what happens when a ballet is set at the castle!
Tickets: SEK 90 (free admittance for children up to 12 years old)
Admission: 15 min before the performance In Swedish! Drottningen Dansar |
10:30 - 11:15The Royal Armoury |
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Johan Helmich Roman, "the Father of Swedish Music" is a most significant figure in Swedish music history. Works such as ”Drottningholmsmusiken” and ”Then Svenska Mässan" belong to Sweden's most essential baroque repertoire. Listen to a selection of Roman's compositions, delightfully rendered by eminent Swedish soloists in a trio session. Beautifully sounding history on Sweden's National Day (June 6th)!
Tickets: 120 SEK Admission: 15 minutes before the concert |
12:00 - 13:00The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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Tickets: SEK 100 Admission: 15 min before the seminar In Swedish! Mattias Lundberg |
14:00 - 15:00The Stockholm Cathedral Parish Hall |
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Come and rediscover a piece of Swedish music history! Missa super Lauda Jerusalem by Bertil Kellner was probably created during the 1580s and is supposedly the first mass composed in Sweden. Also newly discovered chorales and songs in Swedish, German and Latin from Västerås Catherdral and Latin school from 1600. Ensemble Villancico, known for its ventures into early Latin American music, is back with an exquisite vocal ensemble accompanied by organ, under the direction of Peter Pontvik. Tickets: SEK 130; 230 Admission: 30 min before the concert Ensemble Villancico |
17:30 - 18:30Riddarholmen Church |
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The legacy from th Middle ages is strong in the Nordic folk tradition and we are over again fascinated by the beauty within the archaic melodiesand the imaginative lyrics. Ale Möller and Lena Willemark, two gateway figures for the Sweidsh folk music stage with a large audience nationwide as well as worldwide, are closing SEMF 2017 by connecting us modern listeners with this soundscape. Erik Rydvall, on keyed fiddle and Leo Svensson Sander cello complete the ensemble.
Tickets: SEK 100; 150; 250; 350 Admission: 30 min. before the concert Ale Möller |
19:30 - 21:30The German Church |
