Solo violin at Färgfabriken – med Karin Hellqvist
9 June 2025
18.00
Main Hall, Färgfabriken
Regular price: 150 kr
Reduced price for members of Samtida Musik: 100 kr
Limited number of seats. Pre-registration is required. Buy your ticket here.
The bar is open between 17.00-18.00.
Färgfabriken and the association Samtida Musik present a concert with one of Sweden’s foremost violinists in contemporary art music – Karin Hellqvist.
Both acoustic and electro-acoustic music will be performed in the suggestive exhibition Roland Persson: Being Mortal Hurts. The program is based on a family of solo works that Karin has worked intensively on in recent years. As part of an artistic doctoral project at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, she has explored various forms of collaboration with composers, resulting in a series of co-created works. The pieces all have different starting points, such as Swedish folk music, improvisation or the exploration of special playing techniques.
Performers: Karin Hellqvist (violin) and Daniel M Karlsson (sound engineer).
Listen to Karin Hellqvist
The works to be performed are featured on Karin Hellqvist’s latest album, Palette (2024).
Music by: Liza Lim, Carola Bauckholt, Henrik Strindberg and Christian Wallumrød. All works are composed together with Karin Hellqvist.
About Karin Hellqvist
Karin Hellqvist is a performer and researcher within the field of contemporary music. Through collaboration, her work contributes to the process of creating and reflecting around new music. Hellqvist is a member of several forefront ensembles for new music in Scandinavia as Cikada, Oslo Sinfonietta, Ensemble neoN, KammarensembleN and Duo Hellqvist/Amaral, and she is a frequent guest at major international arenas for contemporary and experimental music. Her performances have been broadcasted internationally and she has contributed to several award-winning recordings.
Hellqvist is educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Universität der Künste Berlin, the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Royal College of Music London from where she holds an Artist Diploma in Performance. She has received the Interpreter’s Prize and Honorary Membership from the Society of Swedish Composers and holds a PhD in artistic research from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Hellqvist’s debut album Flock (LAWO Classics) received international critical acclaim and the Quarterly Critic’s Choice of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2020 and in 2024 her second solo album Palette (LAWO Classics) was released.