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Karin Rehnqvist is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the work Silent Earth for choir and orchestra.
"Silent Earth is a bewildering and powerfully encouraging work. With the climate catastrophe as its foundation, a dramatic musical narrative emerges and leads the listener from ice into fire with a relentless force." Twelve works from the Nordic countries have been nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize and the winner will be presented on 1 November in Helsinki.
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Nils Lindberg passed away on 20 February, at the age of 88. He combined his roots in Swedish folk music and jazz with the formal structures of classical music to create a uniquely personal idiom. He was a genuine crossover personality and an equally appreciated composer among jazz musicians, chamber musicians, symphony orchestras and choirs. Read more