Anna Franzon,

Klaver

Finland/Sverige

Anna har studerat i Finland och Holland både piano och cembalo under ledning Anssi Mattila, Annamari Pölhö, Siebe Henstra, Janne Mertala och Naoko Ichihashi. I Finland fungerade hon tio år som ackompanjatör vid Sibelius-Akademins avdelning för tidig musik och därutöver i över femton år som pedagog vid flera olika musikinstitut i Finland.

Anna älskar att spela kammarmusik med sina musikerkollegor och gillar allt från tidig musik till vår tids musik. Hon har bl.a. uruppfört musik av den finske tonsättaren Jyrki Linjama och av norrmannen Henrik Marstrander. Linjamas verk Completorium bandades också för YLEs (Rundradions) räkning. Att förmedla musikglädje till barn och unga är mycket viktigt för Anna Franzon och i numera undervisar hon vid Eskilstuna Kulturskola i Sverige, där hon bor sedan fem år tillbaka.

Steven Svensson,

Viola

Sverige

Steven studerade violin för Harald Thedéen vid Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm där han tog en diplomexamen. Han fortsatte därefter sina studier i USA för Sergiu Luca och övergick därefter alltmer till viola som huvudinstrument.

Efter studietiden bosatte sig Steven Svensson i Florida där han var verksam i Florida Philharmonic Orchestra i arton år. Utöver verksamheten som instrumentalist har han också varit dirigent för en rad olika ungdomsorkestrar, som Young Artists' Chamber Orchestra och Beethoven Festival Youth Orchestra.

Sedan 2005 är Steven Svensson åter bosatt i Sverige och medlem i Kungliga Filharmonikernas violastämma. Han medverkar också regelbundet vid Konserthusets kammarmusikserier i Grünewaldsalen, senast i september 2016.

Steven underviser på Lilla Akademien, och på Kungliga Musikhögskolan iStockholm.

Sif Margrét Tulinius

Violin

Island

Sif Margrét Tulinius violinist, completed her Soloist - Performer's Diploma from the Reykjavík College of Music in the spring of 1991, under the guidance of Professor Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, the concertmaster of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra at the time. Sif Margrét received a Fulbright Grant to continue her studies in the United States and completed-cum laude-her B.Mus degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio as a student of professors Almita and Roland Vamos.  She earned her Master’s Degree in violin performance from the Stony Brook music department, New York where her teachers were Professor Joel Smirnoff of the Juilliard School of Music and Professor Joyce Robbins.

In the autumn of 2000 Ms. Tulinius won the position of Associate Concertmaster of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and held the position until 2016 when she moved to Berlin where she lived for several years performing with wonderful world-renowned Orchestras and Ensembles such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Deutsche Symphony Orkester Berlin, the Potsdam Kammerphilharmonie.

  Sif Margrét has made numerous recordings for the Icelandic State broadcaster RÚV.

Ms Tulinius is very passionate about teaching the violin and is currently on the faculty of violin teachers at the Iceland University of the Arts and the Kópavogur School of Music.

Therese Hugosson,

Folkemusik og dans

Sverige

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Therese Hugosson är musiker, musiklärare och kulturentreprenör och har varit projektledare för Tónlek när det sker i Sverige sedan 2019. Hon har sedan 2009 frilansat som musiker på träblås och piano med huvudinriktning klarinett och har dessutom jobbat som musiklärare i ca 10 år. Therese är utbildad vid Musikhögskolan Ingesund och har studerat klassisk klarinett för Karin Dornbusch, Lars-Gunnar Wåhlstedt och Henrik Nordqvist. Efter högskolan har hon också studerat svensk traditionell folkmusik för riksspelmannen Pers-Nils Toft, rikspelmannen med Zornmärket i guld,Alf Olsson, och folk-/världsmusikgitarristen Mattias Perez. Therese blev första kvinnliga riksspelmannen någonsin på klarinett 2017. I maj 2023 släpper hon sitt debutalbum med traditionella folkmusiklåtar och egenskrivet material.

Einārs Everss

Bas

Danmark/Latvia

Einārs Everss is a Latvian double bassist currently based in Copenhagen. Since April 2019 he is a member of Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DR Symfoniorkestret) and since year 2021 Einārs is holding the co-principal double bass position there (1. solobassist). After a year of studies in Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (Riga, Latvia) with prof. Sergejs Brīnums and after graduating his Bachelor’s and Master’s study programmes in Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (Brno, Czechia) with prof. Miloslav Jelínek, he recently graduated from soloists class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with prof. Michal Stadnicki. Einārs is a prizewinner of several international competitions e.g. The 7th International F. Simandl Competition 2014 (Blatná, Czechia), The 7th International K. D. von Dittersdorf Competition 2017 (Banská Bystrica, Slovakia), and others.

As a soloist and chamber musician he has performed in countries like Czechia, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden etc. and as a soloist has played with orchestras like Simfonia Concertante (Riga, Latvia), Chamber Orchestra of Rezekne (Rezekne, Latvia) and PKF – Prague Philharmonia (Prague, Czechia).

Einārs has collaborated with musicians like Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Carolin Widmann, Nils Mönkemeyer, Enrico Pace, Amalie Malling, Torleif Thedeen, Trio con Brio Copenhagen and others. He was also one of the jury members of The J. M. Sperger International Double Bass Quarantine Challenge in summer 2020.

Joan Faigen,

Violin

Sverige

Joan Faigen, is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music in New York and holds a Master of Music degree from Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where she studied under the tutelage of the esteemed
violinist Sergiu Luca.

After her studies and before moving to Sweden she was a violinist with the Florida Philharmonic for 15 years, 11 of which she sat in the Assistant Concertmaster chair. She was additionally a member of the South Florida Chamber Orchestra and the Miami Grand Opera. During the 2003-2004 seasons Joan was a member of the Renaissance Chamber Orchestra
where she performed both as concertmaster and soloist.
During her years in Florida Joan had an active violin studio and also taught at various music schools in the area including Dillard High School for the Arts as well as College Living Experience. She served as String Coach for the Florida Youth Orchestra and the Junior Renaissance Chamber
Orchestra.
As a chamber musician Joan has performed with Mostly Baroque Players, Chamber Music South and Florida Chamber Virtuosi among others. She was even filmed and recorded performing chamber music for several productions of the Joy of Music television series in the Be-Ne-Lux region
which have been viewed world wide.
Presently Joan holds the position of Assistant Principal Violin with Västerås Sinfonietta and Violin teacher at both Birkagården Folkhögskola and Lilla
Akademien in Stockholm where she has been teaching since 2008.

Gudny Gudmundsdottir

Violin

Island

Guðný Guðmundsdótti

Gudny Gudmundsdottir studied at the Eastman School of Music and Juilliard. From 1974 to 2010 she held the post of first concertmaster of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

For over four decades, she has been Iceland’s leading violin teacher and she now leads the violin department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts as well as teaching at the Reykjavík College of Music.

Guðný has given recitals and appeared as a soloist in Iceland, the USA, Mexico, China, Switzerland, Norway, Hong Kong and Puerto Rico amongst others. In Iceland, she premiered some of the major 20th century violin concertos including Stravinsky, Elgar and Britten. Gudny is a frequent guest at festivals and workshops in the Nordic countries, focusing on the development of young talented string players. As teacher, soloist and chamber musician, she has been invited to numerous festivals in the US and in Europe and has taught at universities, including Beijing and Houston.

Jonas Baetge

Bas

Sverige

Jonas Müthing Baetge studerade kontrabas på musikhögskolorna i Karlsruhe och Frankfurt, musikteori i Karlsruhe samt komposition och körledning i Göteborg. Sedan 2012 undervisar Jonas på Borås kulturskola där han även leder orkestrar för barn och ungdomar i alla åldrar. Hans musikaliska hemvist är symfoniorkestern, men han har alltid varit nyfiken på andra genrer också och uppträtt som solist, med olika kammarmusik- och jazzensembler, symfoniska blåsorkestrar, storband och en tangoensemble. Dessutom verkar han som tonsättare och körledare och är styrelsemedlem i Svenska Stråklärarförbundet.