Yxna Saga 2023
Komposition, arrangemang och körledning tillsammans med Elisabeth Ekman
Kung Byxlös sommaren 2021
Komposition, arrangemang och körledning tillsammans med Elisabeth Ekman
2021
Waiting for new times, when it will be possible again to rehearse, play, sing and perform, I'm digging far down into the archives, looking for ballads, songs, tunes and stories.
21st of May - Meraftan (open singing session for anyone to come along)
20-24th of June - Jazz & World (a week of workshops)
17th of June - Culture heritage café, Moderator for a talk with archaeologists
1st of July - Culture heritage café, Moderator for a talk about handcraft
15th of July - Culture heritage café, Medieval ballads, together with Marie Länne Persson
29th of July -Culture heritage café, Margareta Skantze about influential women during medieval times
4th - 12th of Aug - Kung Byxlös - 5 performances with choir and actor
Spring & Summer 2020
26th of Jan - Bessman, Kulturnatten, Växjö.
10th of May - ILMA a cappella, Mariedalskyrkan, Karlskrona.
4th of June - livestreaming solo concert, Musik i Blekinge.
13th of Sep - ILMA a cappella Jämjö kyrka.
7th of Nov - Blaustjyng Folksinging Choir, Rappskall project, Ronneby.2019
26th of Feb - Blekinge Folkhögskola, Bräkne-Hoby
9th of Mar - Café Cura, Karlskrona (Chorus Conspiracy)
28th of Mar - Litorina Folkhögskola, Karlskrona2nd of Apr - Jämshögs Folkhögskola
2nd of May - Karlskrona - Climate Change exhibition opening event>>July - Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
3rd of Aug - Skärgårdsfesten, Karlskrona (Chorus Conspiracy)
6th-8th of Sept Den Olycklige Danske Prinsen, Nyborg, DK. Konsert tillsammans med Jørgen Dickmeiss6th of Oct Den Olycklige Danske Prinsen, Saxemara Ship yard
17th of Nov Den Olycklige Danske Prinsen, Månteatern, Lund.Summer 2018
28th of June - Los Angeles - concert and workshop event>>
2nd of July - Maple Sheyenne Lutheran Church, North Dakota
7th of July - Butte Brewery Company (private)
14th of July - Montana Folk Festival, Butte, Montana schedule>>
15th of July - Montana Folk Festival, Butte, Montana schedule>>
17th of July - Svenska Kyrkan, Los Angeles. 6.30 pm. Adress: Norske Sjømannskirken, San Pedro. read more>>
2022
28th of June - Los Angeles - concert and workshop event>>
2nd of July - Maple Sheyenne Lutheran Church, North Dakota
7th of July - Butte Brewery Company (private)
14th of July - Montana Folk Festival, Butte, Montana schedule>>
15th of July - Montana Folk Festival, Butte, Montana schedule>>
17th of July - Svenska Kyrkan, Los Angeles. 6.30 pm. Adress: Norske Sjømannskirken, San Pedro. read more>>
2023
28th of June - Los Angeles - concert and workshop event>>
2nd of July - Maple Sheyenne Lutheran Church, North Dakota
7th of July - Butte Brewery Company (private)
14th of July - Montana Folk Festival, Butte, Montana schedule>>
15th of July - Montana Folk Festival, Butte, Montana schedule>>
17th of July - Svenska Kyrkan, Los Angeles. 6.30 pm. Adress: Norske Sjømannskirken, San Pedro. read more>>
Composing and arranging
I have over the years composed music for nine original theater plays and am now working on the tenth - Olympes rop vid schavotten. To me the music can serve different purposes in a play. It can paint and color the story being more in the background or enhance what is going on on the stage. But I prefer to use the music as a main story teller, just as important as the actors.
Here are a couple of examples:
Svart Madonna
The black Madonna - a choir mass
The music was created to a story by the author and director Margareta Skantze, where the cycle of life was the format. I composed the music together with Elisabeth Ekman and we incorporated 9 voices, a flute and hand drums into the arrangements.
Quite soon in the creative process we realized that the story had the same elements as a high mass. This made the music taking on its own existence after the play had stopped performing, and the pieces are still sung by choir now and then.
Den olycklige danske prinsen
The last Danish medieval king
I created the music for one voice and a kannel. Which then practically takes just as much attention from the audience as the monologue of the sole actor portraying the king.
The story about the king Christian II shows that history is different in the south from the surroundings of Stockholm. The very south Sweden belonged to Denmark up till the second half of the 17th century. A history that is excluded from the schools' history education.
Kung Byxlös
In the form of a memory, we giot to follow Queen Margaret I's path through life and how she went about bringing the Nordic countries together into a union after centuries of vendettas, wars and fratricide. The folksinging ensemble Blaustjyng simngs everything from folk chorales and church songs to medieval ballads and folksongs.
Music composed and arranged by Astrid Selling and Elisabeth Ekman.
Yxna Saga
Together with two narrators, the folk music choir Blaustjyng took on a strange Viking myth from Blekinge. About Yxna, the young woman, who is kidnapped and then betrayed by her father. How far can the desire for revenge stretch? Will it ever end?
Music composed and arranged by Astrid Selling and Elisabeth Ekman.
Narrators: Erika Silfver and Sarah Hjortsberg
Scenography and costume: Viktoria Rosén
Original script: Margareta Skantze
Where you can find me
Musikcentrum Syd
Managing Director
As a manager at Musikcentrum Syd I get to work with freelance musicians - set up networks, coach strategic communication, create new ideas on how to put the spotlight on our musicians. Read more >>
Flokk
CEO of my own collaborative company
Through Flokk I can do freelance assignments in music, project management, concept development, strategic communication etc.
A Cappella South Sweden
Creative manager
This is an ongoing singing project for young people in South Sweden. I run it together with Camilla Bengtsson and our aim is to make young people sing more in small ensembles.
Teater Kontur
Musician
I have collaborated with Margareta Skantze (play writer) and Viktoria Rosén (scenographer) since 1990. Now in the group we call Teater Kontur. Our theater is so much more than a performance, it is also research, seminars, workshops and discussions.
Projects
International and local
KULDRUM
Storytelling around the Baltic Sea
Started in 2019 and is till ongoing. KULDRUM is Livonian, Estonian and Swedish. Guld/Kuld Rum/Ruum. A golden room - the golden place, physical and spiritual, where people connect and create belonging and identity through storytelling. KULDRUM wants to create a long term network where storytellers and folksingers can share storytelling practices on how to bring in people into creativity, and how to weave culture and identity into the fabric of society and everyday life. READ MORE>>
Baltic Sea Inter Cult
Folk music and youth around the Baltic Sea
During 4 years I was manager for an international EU-project, an exchange programme with youth and folk musicians in Sweden, Poland and Estonia.
A Cappella South Sweden - young singers
Singing in small groups
A project supported by the governmental youth department to make young people organize themselves through music. Our goal is to make young people sing in small ensembles.
Poland and Belarus
Krusznia
As a result of the Baltic Sea Inter Cult (BaSIC) project I have visited Suwalki in Poland, to collaborate with other dedicated traditional musicians in Krusznia. Visiting old people in their homes to learn about their life and music.
