Ulrik Gaston Larsen
Posted on | October 14, 2008 | No Comments
Ulrik Gaston Larsen has studied historical guitar and lute instruments at the Norwegian state Academy of Music, and is currently a lute student of Professor Rolf Lislevand at the Academy of Music in Trossingen, Germany. He specializes in French and Italian early baroque and tours extensively with various ensembles throughout Europe. He can, among other [...]
Koster Chamber Music Festival 2008
Posted on | October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments
The program for this year’s festival was chosen in view of the festival’s new brainchild: A chamber orchestra! A completely new orchestra with symphonic instrumental composition in a limited format. This allows for a wealth of new opportunities and challenges. We have chosen to dive into this challenge with the highest ambitions and with a [...]
Mikael Holmlund
Posted on | October 13, 2008 | No Comments
Mikael Holmlund was born in 1978 in Umeå. He started playing the piano around seven years old. 1996, he entered the piano class at the Norwegian State Academy of Music. After four years of studies for Jens Harald Bratlie, and Einar Steen-Nøkleberg he was awarded a bachelor’s degree with honors, with distinction. Then followed two [...]
Symphony is best with food and drink
Posted on | October 11, 2008 | No Comments
Kosters Trädgårdar (Kosters’ Gardens) holds this year no less than five evening concerts, and it offers in addition to a lush scenery all the conditions for a festival visitor to feel good, thanks to the Gardens’ eminent kitchen. All evenings with performances are an opportunity to buy a special concert ticket menu that provides access [...]
Problems understanding Swedish?
Posted on | October 10, 2008 | No Comments
This site is meant to be in English. The content that still is in Swedish will be translated as soon as possible. We’re hoping to get it all translated in to German as well.
In the meantime – please bear with us.
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Aprill Spendrup – visual artist of 2008
Posted on | October 9, 2008 | Comments Off
I’m trying to create an internal light and a musical soul in my painting. A body that gives form and meaning, light, atmosphere, place, volume, sound, rhythm and temperature. All these things fit together in painting and music, and in the wild. No other place in the world gives more expression of this than Koster [...]
Generous gift to the festival
Posted on | October 9, 2008 | No Comments
Koster Chamber Music Festival’s first concert of the year was actually already on May 23. The concert grand piano recently donated to the festival was then introduced, first at a ceremony in Strömstad’s northern port and later at Longagärde, south Koster.
Pianist Mikael Holmlund played with the lid open on the quayside, with the port basin [...]
Kosters Trädgårdar, South Koster
Posted on | October 6, 2008 | Comments Off
Food, music and everything one can ask of color splendor. Kosters Gardens, the festivals’ main stage, is a fireworks display of flowers, trees and herbs in combination with the best organic food. Here you can eat what is grown, take a stroll in the garden, pet rabbits or sit with down a cup of coffee [...]
Koster Chamber Music Festival goes symphonic!
Posted on | October 5, 2008 | No Comments
In 2008 Koster Chamber Music Festival proudly presented a brand new symphony orchestra. The orchestra consisted of musicians from several European countries and was conducted by Koster Chamber Music Festival’s artistic leader Martin Rasten. As far as we know this was the first time a symphony orchestra held concerts at the islands of Koster.
The orchestra [...]
Brand new website (under construction)
Posted on | October 3, 2008 | No Comments
We’re happy to have launched a brand new website for what you know as Koster Chamber Music Festival! The festival is currently in the process of making some major changes. Our web sites’ domain name is just the beginning!
