Participants

• Members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

• Elisabet Ljungar, director

  Elisabet Ljungar graduated in theatre direction and violin studies. She has broad experience with various types of music, from the Baroque era to new works within opera, musicals, cabaret and spoken drama. She has worked with the Royal Swedish Opera, Göteborgsoperan, Norrlandsoperan, Värmlandsoperan, Malmö Opera, Nordnorsk Opera as well as the Stockholm and Borås city theatres. With her deep musical knowledge and expertise, she enjoys producing new music. One example is Mats Larsson Gothe’s opera about Marie Curie, Blanche och Marie, for Norrlandsoperan in 2014, nominated for best new opera in the world.

  Between 2001 and 2012, Ljungar founded and was creative director of the chamber opera company TeaterTravers, dedicated to bringing musical drama to a wider audience. Between 2015 and 2023, she was musical director and artistic director at Norrlandsoperan, and after that Nordiska Kammarorkestern, Sundsvall.

  Elisabet Ljungar is also a dramaturg, and she writes and translates libretti and plays. She is a member of the Writers Guild of Sweden.

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• Greta Gyraitė, researcher

• Agita Reke, composer

• Åsa Callmer, researcher

• Emilia Witkowska Nery, researcher

• Luis Fernando Amaya, composer

• Natasja Börjeson, researcher

• Pietari Kaasinen, composer

• Isolde Puts, researcher

• Dominik Puk, composer

• Robin Bonné, researcher

• Otto Nuoranne, composer