c o m p o s e r
2024
Read the review here:
https://en.gurstad.se/press
The Deer Park
A choral drama about opression and historical trauma
VOKALHARMONIN WITH GUESTS
Borgholm Castle
May 12
Köping church, Köpingsvik
May 11
Soloists
Eleonora Poignant, soprano
Anna Zander, mezzo-soprano
Simon Frank, tenor
Karl Söderström, baritone
Ensemble/soloists
Mika Takehara, percussion
Dohyo Sol, theorbo (Höör barock)
Mats Wallin, bass clarinet (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra)
Fredrik Malmberg, musical direction
Music and libretto:
Hans Gurstad-Nilsson
Arr: Chronotopia and Vokalharmonin. In collaboration with Ölands Hembygdsförbund.
WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM SIGNATUR, SYDOSTLEADER, SWEDISH ARTS COUNCIL, BORGHOLM MUNICIPALITY and ÖLANDSFONDEN.
ÖLANDSFONDEN
The Deer Park
A pre concert evening about my new choir drama before the premiere at Borgholms castle in may
Dohyo Sol, theorbo, (Höör Barock)
Peter Aronsson, historian and principal of Linnaéus university
Chronotopia, Music of the cultural heritage, presentation
Arr: Chronotopia and Ölands Museum Himmelsberga
MED FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM BORGHOLMS KOMMUN
Hemgården, Långlöt, Öland
12 january
16.30-19.00
Free entrance, coffé/tea and sandwich!
Between 1572-1801 Öland was reserved as a royal hunting park. The oppression during this era still lingers in the folk memory on the island. In Hans Gurstad-Nilssons new choir drama, The Deer park, the historic events are interpreted by VOKALHARMONIN, one of Sweden's most prolific choirs.
Chronotopia warmly welcome you to this theme evening before the premiere in may!
Programme
Lecture:
PETER ARONSSON, Linnaeus University. The royal Deer park on Öland. Estabishment, expiry and significance 1572 - 2024
Open forum:
Local stories about The royal Deer park
DOHYO SOL (Höör Barock) Music for lute
HANS GURSTAD-NILSSON and Chronotopia
present their work
More info at:
Ice Memory
Premiere 2025
The Netherlands
Austria
Ice Memory is an international art and music project about the climatological memory of glacial ice. Together with artist and curator Eline Kersten (The Netherlands/Switzerland), glaciologist and artist Lindsey Nicholson (Austria) I´m exploring how climate data from ice drillings from the Greenland ice cap can be transformed into music.
In Ice Memory I work with electronic soundscapes.
Events in 2025
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Exhibition: Venray, Netherlands. Odapark, center for contemporary art: May 18-September 7 2025
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Exhibition: Innsbruck, Austria. Vorbrenner: April 2025
WITH SUPPORT FROM:
Helge Ax:on Johnsons stiftelse
Mondriaan Fund
2023
Film premiere:
J.A.G.S. The Öland Pharaoh
Reqiuem
Per Nyström and Vokalharmonin
Autumn 2023
J.A.G.S museum, Segerstad, Öland
A concert film from Segerstad's church, august 28, 2022. Cellist Per Nyström and the choir Vokalharmonin under the direction of professor Fredrik Malmberg. Vokalharmonin consists of singers from two of Sweden's most renowned choirs: Radio Choir and Eric Ericson's Chamber Choir.
"In this requiem for solo cello and mixed choir, we celebrate the extraordinary life and work of the farmer and folk artist Johan August Gustafsson (J.A.G.S) from Segerstad Parish, Öland. It´s a piece about a man who, despite the ridicule of those around him, dreamed big and beyond the horizons of the village norms."
WITH SUPPORT FROM:
Statens Musikverk, Mörbylånga municipality, Cementa Sweden AB, Ölands Bank and Cke Lavér.
ORGANIZER:
Musik på Allvar in collaboration with J.A.G.S museum and Kalmar läns hembygdsförbund
PODCAST:
Kalmar County Museum
Click on the image for program- booklet (SV)
2022
J.A.G.S. The Öland Pharaoh
Requiem
Per Nyström and Vokalharmonin
August 28,18.00
Segerstads church, Öland
2021
A L V
Per Nyström, cello
18 september
Ölands Museum Himmelsberga
3 september 6.00 PM
Vänersborg Chamber Music Festival
Vänersborg church
https://k-v.se/konserter/festivalkonsert
Arr: Kammarmusikens vänner
Kalmar castle february 26
G A N Erik Wickström, piano
Zephyrin Rey-Bellet, cello
GAN is a chamber piece inspired by the imagery of Swedish painter and modernist pioneer Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN). Eventually the piece will be the backbone of a dance performance about facing change. GAN (1884-1965) depicted the dawn of the modern industrial age. Influenced by the dynamic art scenes of Berlin and Paris in the 1910s and 20s he created a personal blend of the modernist styles, with erotic symbolism as a salient feature. His ruptured paintings of urbanity, new technology and athletic men capture a time full of hope and promises of freedom. Today their slightly disturbing dystopic gloom comes to the fore. The images resonate with our own troubled times of transition and uncertainty. On february 26 pianist Erik Wickström and cellist Zéphyrin Rey-Bellet, artistic director of the renowned string orchestra Camerata Nordica, meet in a filmed work in progress presentation of GAN with musical excerpts at Kalmar Castle (see Calendar below). Arranger: Länsmusiken, Camerata Nordica and Byteatern, Kalmar läns teater.
With support from:
Helge Ax:on Johnsons stiftelse
County Council of Kalmar County
Länsmusiken, Kalmar
Kalmar municipality
Filmregion Sydost
