Media invitation: The digital final of the Linköpings Studentsångare Composition Award 2020
This is the second edition of the Linköpings Studentsångare Composition Award. The competition is for female composers who write music for male choirs, with the aim of enriching and developing current male choir art. The three finalists: Ingunn Ligaarden, Linnea Landström and María del Pilar A. Miralles Castillo, were announced on 8 March. November 28th it is time to announce the winner, and the media is hereby invited to follow the digital final.
This year’s finalists highlight current societal challenges, and have created music that reflects both hope and vulnerability. The final, like much else, will not be as planned this year, and instead of a concert, everyone can follow the Linköpings Studentsångare Composition Award 2020 digitally.
Date: November 28th at 4 PM
Everything will be recorded and can be seen afterwards.
Stream the Linköpings Studentsångare Composition Award 2020 here: https://www.lkss.se/composition-award
Brief facts about this year’s finalists
Ingunn Ligaarden comes from Linköping. Her piece is a composition of two poems by Emily Dickinson that will give hope to the listener. Among other things, she has expressed: “With this piece I want to reach out with hope to all listeners who struggle in life in different ways”.
The second finalist is Linnea Landström from Örebro. This is what she has said about her work: “When I decided to participate in this competition, I knew I wanted to write about vulnerability. Tender words and tones directed towards men.”
The last finalist, María del Pilar A. Miralles Castillo, comes from Spain and has a piece that reflects today’s contrasts: “The piece opposes chords with the darkest and brighter sounds at different moments, as well as static and dynamic sections throughout the entire work, all of this due to the contraposition that the lyrics present: the text can be understood as an irony related to the current situation of reality observed from our usually comfortable lives.”
Read more about the finalists here: https://www.lkss.se/composition-award
About the Linköpings Studentsångare Composition Award 2020
The Linköpings Studentsångare Composition Award 2020 is the second edition of the competition for female composers writing music for the male voice choir. The first edition took place in 2016. The winner of the competition, who receives a prize of SEK 50,000, will be announced on 28th of November. The jury consists of Hans Lundgren, director musices emeritus and former conductor of Linköpings Studentsångare, Christina Hörnell, conductor of Linköpings Studentsångare and director musices at Linköping University, Karin Arwén Oldgren, choir conductor and head of music activities in Engelbrekts parish, Stockholm, Bo Ejeby, music editor specialised in choral music at Bo Ejeby Förlag, and Ulrika Emanuelsson, conductor of the Carolinae women’s choir.
The Linköpings Studentsångare Composition Award 2020 has been made possible through a generous donation from the Märta Christina and Magnus Vahlquist Foundation.
For more information, please contact:
Christina Hörnell, director musices, conductor of Linköpings Studentsångare
Christina.hornell@liu.se
(+46) 70 089 6922
Hans Lundgren, director musices emeritus and former conductor of Linköpings Studentsångare
hans@hanslundgren.se
(+46) 73 154 3978
Linköpings Studentsångare curate and evolve the traditions of Nordic male voice choir music and work actively to include music written by both male and female composers. The repertoire is large and broad, including classic male voice choir music and contemporary works, and the choir collaborates often with other choirs both male, mixed and female. Linköpings Studentsångare was founded in 1972, when it went by the name “Lihkören”. The choir act as an ambassador for Linköping University through concerts and tours both in Sweden and abroad.
