SEMF 2019

Participation during the opening ceremony requires a valid ticket for the opening concert at 8 pm.  

The opening ceremony takes place in the presence of Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden. The audience is kindly asked to take their seats at 7.25 pm at the latest.

The lute and the recorder belong to the oldest instruments of the European music history. Emelie Roos and Dohyo Sol, Swedish virtuosos on their respective instruments, invite you to a colourful program with poetic elements - various musical worlds, artistic styles and expressions in a journey from the 12th to the 17th century. Works by John Dowland, Michelangelo Galilei and Giovanni Battista Fontana.

Tickets: 120 SEK

At the EARLY LATE NIGHT CONCERT, you lay down comfortably on a mattres while listening to relaxed early music - this time in complete darkness! 

Perrine Devillers, Sophia and Anna Danilevskaïa move you to a suggestive world that evokes four blind fiddlers' lives - two brothers and one's two sons - who flourished in Bruges, Burgundy in the 15th century. A unique concept that you do not want to miss!

Tickets: 150 SEK - Limited number of matresses/seats.

NB! SEMFestivalpass is not valid for this concert!

Mamadou Sene is one of Sweden's most renown world musicians, born in Senegal. During this concert he guide us, together with percussionist Lamine Touré, into West Africa's traditional nomad music. Mamadou sings and plays his riti - the one-stringed violin of the sub-Saharan Africa.

Tickets: 120 kr

When children and youngsters play together with one of the Nordic region's top baroque ensembles, it happens! The Vikings' trips and cultural exchanges show the way to the "modern" baroque world where classics such as Telemann, Rameau, Roman, Lully, Vivaldi and Purcell come to speak.  

Participants: students from Nacka Music School and Solna Kulturskola and Drottningholm Baroque ensemble. Compère: Olof Larsson and Björg Ollén (in Swedish!). 

Tickets: 100 SEK (Free admission for children up to 12 years). Admission: 15 min before the performance.

USA-born Skip Sempé is today considered one of the world's most reknown cembalist and is also the leader of the ensemble Cappriccio Stravagante. Particularly his interpretations of French classical harpsichord literature and early English repertoire for the instrument have become critically acclaimed. On his first Stockholm visit, Sempé intends to charm the Swedish audience with works by Byrd, Inglot, Frescobaldi and Louis Couperin.

Tickets: 100 / 200 / 320 / 420 SEK.

With The Next Generation, SEMF focuses on early music students and rising stars. 

This programme enhances some beautiful vocal treasures - a mix of secular and sacred a cappella repertoire celebrating the greatness of Renaissance vocal music and some touches of Baroque.

Tickets: 100 SEK. 

Books containing repertoire by "spelmän" (Nordic folk music players) are the 18th and 19th century equivalent to the playlists of today. In those anthologies musicians compiled melodies to the most popular contemporary fashion dances, sometimes circuited with hits that already where "passé", but still popular.  Silfver Trio - Pelle Björnlert (violin), Johan Hedin (keyed fiddle) och Nora Roll (viol) - are with their brilliant playing, rich of varities, belonging to the top of the folk and baroque musicians in Sweden. 

Tickets 100 / 250 SEK.

At the EARLY LATE NIGHT CONCERT, you lay down comfortably on a mattres while listening to relaxed early music - this time in complete darkness! 

Perrine Devillers, Sophia and Anna Danilevskaïa move you to a suggestive world that evokes four blind fiddlers' lives - two brothers and one's two sons - who flourished in Bruges, Burgundy in the 15th century. A unique concept that you do not want to miss!

Tickets: 150 SEK - Limited number of matresses/seats.

NB! SEMFestivalpass is not valid for this concert!

Follow the Archlute in Italian early music history through three centuries - an introspective and at the same time energizing experience! Chilean lute player and pedagogue Gastón Apablaza performs works by da Milano, Merula and Zamboni Romano.

Tickets: 120 SEK.

Freedom of speech and mind is rarely associated with our image of medieval culture. However, thanks to witty allusions and double meanings, we can discover a whole world behind apparently innocent texts. Anna Danilevskaïa, fiddle player and Middle Ages researcher, examines how this freedom is expressed, in text and subtext, through the music of the Middle Ages. 

Tickets 100 SEK.

The now sainted Hildegard von Bingen´s religious visions of sound and light, and her work as a writer and composer have been well known since the 13th century. Hildegard´s creative power revolves around the "harmonic structure of the soul" and she has left behind a great treasure of liturgical songs. Welcome to sink into this unique woman´s mysterious world - with Ars Choralis Coeln and Maria Jonas, a musical powerhouse in the service of medieval music.

In cooperation with the Goethe-Institute and the Embassy of Germany.

Tickets: 100 / 250 SEK

At the EARLY LATE NIGHT CONCERT, you lay down comfortably on a mattres while listening to relaxed early music - this time in complete darkness! 

Perrine Devillers, Sophia and Anna Danilevskaïa move you to a suggestive world that evokes four blind fiddlers' lives - two brothers and one's two sons - who flourished in Bruges, Burgundy in the 15th century. A unique concept that you do not want to miss!

Tickets: 150 SEK - Limited number of matresses/seats.

NB! SEMFestivalpass is not valid for this concert!

What is a Surprise Concert? You don’t know either the artist or the program but you come anyway. Because you are courious. Because it’s exciting. Because everything old is always new at SEMF!

Tickets: 120 SEK

Sufi whirling (or Sufi swing) is a form of physically active meditation derived from Sufism and allows the dancer to become focused in the inner spiritual world by himself. Sama dance is a ritual where the dancer turns as the earth rotates around the sun. The workshop is led by Mahsa Poorramezan.  

Practical information: Comfortable and elastic outfit; pants, top with long or short sleeves and a pair of socks.

Tickets: 100 SEK

Did you ever hear a basset horn live? Now you have the chance to listen to three at once! This tenor clarinet had its golden age in the end of the 18th century and no one less than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote compositions for this instrument - it even has its places in his famous Requiem. Lotz Trio from Bratislava, some of the basett horn's modern pioneers, are inviting us to a delicious mixture of inspiring contemporary arrangements of melodies from Mozart's operas and more. Late Early Music!

I cooperation with the Slovak Embassy. 

Tickets 100 / 250 SEK.