Participants

• Musicians from The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

  Karin Eriksson, violin
  Diana Crafoord, viola
  Linnea Vikström, cello
  Pedro Silva, horn
  Ulrik Nilsson, percussion

• 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.

• Kyra Spaan

  Scientist

  Kyra Spaan is pursuing a doctorate in Environmental Science at Stockholm University, researching into the so-called chemicals iceberg. By no means all the chemicals discharged into and to be found in water and mud are known. The situation can thus be likened to an iceberg, the identifiable chemicals being the mere tip of the chemical entirety. Using chromatography and analysis, she is involved in identifying and quantifying these unknown chemicals within the group of OHCs.

• Aslıhan Keҫebaşoğlu

  Aslıhan Keçebaşoğlu gained her Master’s in Composition at the Sibelius Academy in summer 2022, and hails from Turkey. She principally works in the field of acoustic music, and writes for orchestra, trio, choir and other scorings. Her music has been played all over Europe, including in Vienna, Paris, Istanbul and Helsinki, and has been performed by the likes of the ensemble Klangforum Wien, the Helsinki Chamber Choir and the Semplice Quartet. In her compositions it is the musical ideas that drive her creativity, and her music often explores the interface between genres and influences.

• Gabriel Freitas

  Gabriel Freitas is studying at Stockholm University’s Department of Environmental Science for a doctorate in the field of atmospheric science. She is researching into so-called sea spray aerosol particles – the seawater disseminated in the air when waves collide. When these particles rise they become ice crystals, and then contain seawater, algae and bacteria from the sea. The research examines these particles’ climatic role.

• Heidi Hassinen

  Heidi Hassinen is a composer who trained at the Sibelius Academy. She writes both instrumental and electroacoustic music, exploring tone colours and sound quality in her compositions. Alongside her compositional activities she is studying for a doctorate in computer science at Aalto University, with computational creativity as her main area. Her most recent performed works include the mini-opera Huoli, scored for mezzo‑soprano, flute, piano, percussion and electronic instruments, which featured at the 2022 Tampere Biennale.

• Agnes Olin

  Scientist

  Agnes Olin works in the Coastal Laboratory of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), where she is examining how fishing impacts the coast’s ecosystems. She recently completed her postdoctoral research at Stockholm University, where she investigated the increase in the number of sticklebacks in the Baltic Sea. Sticklebacks are very small fish that have been able to proliferate and spread as a result of eutrophication and overfishing in the Baltic Sea. The spread of these fish has resulted in more turbid, algae-filled, green water and fewer pike and perch. Agnes’s research involved investigating the areas resistant to sticklebacks.

• Zacharias Ehnvall

  Composer

  Zacharias Ehnvall is a composer with a background in organ-playing, counterpoint and improvisation. He completed his Master’s in Composition at Stockholm’s Royal College of Music in 2019, and has written music for a variety of ensembles in the Nordic countries, Russia and Germany. In Sweden his works have been performed by the Swedish Radio Choir, Norrbotten NEO and Musica Vitae. One of his most recent works is Tillfälligt krumhorn utslaget i rumtid blommar likt frosten (Temporary crumhorn blossoming in space-time flowers like frost), written to a 2022 commission from the music institution Norrbottensmusiken.