Draft:Stellan Sagvik

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Stellan Sagvik,

born in 1952 in Örebro, is a Swedish composer,[1] conductor, singer and multi-instrumental musician.

° Sagvik studied musicology at the University of Stockholm with, among others, Martin Tegen and Bertil Wikman, and studied music composition with Gunnar Bucht, Arne Mellnäs, Lars-Gunnar Bodin and Lars-Erik Rosell at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm 1975–1977. He is also educated as a Journalist at the University of Stockholm, and worked as such at several music magazines and at Swedish Radio 1980-1996.

° His output consists of 190 opus-numbered compositions up to the year 1998 (after which he stopped numbering and composed some 100 more works), among these are more than a dozen music-dramatic works, three symphonies, more than a dozen instrumental concertos, vocal works, choral music, chamber music, piano works and six string quartets.[2]

° Sagvik periodically worked as a theater musician at Marionetteatern, Stockholms Stadsteater, Uppsala/Gävle Stadsteater, Tältresarna, Nya Teatern and Teater Totem, and wrote music for many plays and also film music.

° For 50 years (1973-2023) he was also active as a musician and singer in the world music genre in Musikgruppen RAA[3] with several albums released, in the rock group Rockhammer, in the folk ensemble Folkbus[4] (with Maria Hulthén-Birkeland and Kaj Magnusson) and as a choir singer in i.a. Storkyrkan's choir, Maria Motettkör, Hägerstens Motettkör, Cantores Mariae and periodically as a member of various other Stockholm choirs.

° As musician and singer Sagvik has later years mostly been active with Trio Sagvik (flute, voice/guitar/harp, cello), with seasonal tour programs.

° Since 1989, he has run the record company nosag records [5]with the releasing of contemporary music as the most task, and the GASON label,[6] releasing CDs with contemporary Jazz and World Music. Many of his own works are released on the nosag label[7], including all the instrumental Swedish Concertini, the oratorio Missa Maria Magdalena (in two different recordings), four orchestral works, all string quartets, and a CD/DVD-ROM box set with singback (orchestral recordings without singers) of eight of his chamber operas, also including a DVD with all scores and all parts material, to be used for rehearsal, production and promotion.

Works, selection

Operas

   Anna Månsdotter, about the Yngsjö murder (singback version nosag CDVD9250)
   OI (lyrics Sandro Key-Åberg from "Scenprator") for two voices and String Quartet, with a bickering couple  (singback version nosag CDVD9250)
   Morminne (monodrama), dystopia with an elderly woman memorywise living through her life, from an asylum bed (singback version nosag CDVD9250)
   Ödesspegeln/Mirror of Fate ('adult saga' from a time long time ago in a peasant world, or maybe even today (singback version nosag CDVD9250)
   Meneo (full-length opera) vision of the future inspired by Aldous Huxley's BNW) (midi version on nosag CDVD9250)
   Befrielse/Liberation (text by Ildikó Asztalos) melodrama for voice, flute and cello, about a crashed relation and self-recovery, to recited text (talkback version nosag CDVD9250)
   Förlorade i molnen/Lost in the Clouds, emotional relationship dialogue between two men, about a woman? (singback version nosag CDVD9250)
   En natt i maj/A Night in May, esoteric dream play in chamber format,  with two singers and chamber ensemble (singback version nosag CDVD9250)
   Läppar och tunga/Lips and Tongue (text: Camilla Ringquist), a hot love affair in Greece (nosag CDVD9250)

Orchestral works

   Metamora, symphony no.3 (nosagCD 011)
   Le voyeur, dance/mime (nosagCD 011)
   Paidsomenest, dance/mime drama
   Clushoes, opening piece (nosagCD 175)
   The Ritual, dance/mime (nosagCD 011)
   Paidorch, tone poem, suite from Paidsomenest (nosagCD 011)

Chamber music

   Amariosa (various lyricists) dramatic love poems (nosagCD 169)
   ...amandi (various lyricists) love poems  (nosagCD 008)
   Annaca (text: Anna Cavallin) relation drama man/woman (nosagCD 169)
   Hunden illa däran/Le Chien mal-en-point (own text in Swedish and French) dramatic existentialist thoughts (nosagCD 169)
   Six string quartets (nosag CD 2246, double CD with all quartets)
   Solar Plexus for solo flute (nosagCD 029)
   Vampire state building  (flute and piano) (nosagCD 029)
   All works for solo piano (nosagCD2200, complete double-CDextra edition with sheet music in pdf format)

Choral

   Missa Maria Magdalena (text: from the Bible) for soli, choirs, two organs and big Wind Orchestra (nosagCD 017 & nosagCD 137) 
   Motetti obligati (text: from the Bible) Choir a c. (nosagCD 005)
   Cla-ma-vi for four choirs (different lyricists) (Swedish version on nosagCD 009)
   Missa Airone di Pietra/Missa Brevis (Latin Mass texts) Choir a c. (Kyrie and Gloria on PSCD 25)
   Poesia Concreta (text from graffiti walls) Choir a c.

Concerts

   Flute concerto #1, Flutes Picc, Alto, Grande, one player  (nosagCD 029)
   Flute concerto #2 Parabahr, Flutes Picc, Alto, Grande, Bass, one player (nosagCD 171)
   Ten Swedish concertini, wind soloist and Strings Orchestra (all on nosagCD 2028)
   Zeugma (piano concertino with chamber orchestra)

Works for younger audiences

   Lilla Vinden/Little Wind (text by Kersti Perski) fairy tale for Soprano, Guitar and percussion (nosagCD 174) Also a version for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, percussion, piano, cello
   Gåsen/The Goose (text by Kersti Perski) fairy tale for Soprano, Guitar and percussion. Also a version for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, percussion, piano, cello 
   Eulidyke Alv, little dancing instrumental fairy tale
   Ennarike, a post from the trolls' fight against highway builders 
   The Walk to Turtle Mountain (libretto: Ulla-Carin Nyquist) children's/family opera from an old American Indian saga, for seven singers, two dancers and chamber ensemble (nosagCD 179)
  1. ^ "Swedish Composer's Union". Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare. Swedish Composer's Union.
  2. ^ "Swedish Music Information Center". Svensk Musik. STIM.
  3. ^ "Musikgruppen RAA - world music ensemble". Musikgruppen RAA. GASON records.
  4. ^ "Folkbus - worldmusic group". Folkbus - kryddad världsmusikbus. GASON records.
  5. ^ "nosag records". nosag records.
  6. ^ "GASON records". GASON records. nosag records.
  7. ^ "CD catalogue from nosag records - Sagvik Music". nosag records.