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Benjamin Staern

About Me

Composer, arranger, recording technician, lives in Malmo. Working at the Malmo Opera.
I compose mainly works for symphony orchestras, chamber music, electronic and vocal works but also can contain fusions of different instruments and is open to explore "unfamiliar sounds".
Lately, I've become more interested of working with harmony, melodic, rhythm and timbre as a ground parameter. This approach is very apparent in pieces like Tvardrag ("Cross Draught") for double string orchestra and Sacrificio for tuba, live-electronics and orchestra. The latter was a project with Kjetil Myklebust and Malmo Symphony Orchestra, performed in September 2005 at the Konserthuset in Malmo

What I want with music today is to dig in deep into the musical hemsiphere and to bring out more clear relations between A to B and a "clinch", this can be appeared as "ethereal/down-to-earth", "spirit/matter" etc. Today we are exposed very densely from the media with all kinds of noise and junk. We need to take a stand and say "STOP! We want to deliver something more real and interesting instead of letting people losing the awareness in today's society."

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Member Since: 5/14/2007
Band Website: http://www.benjaminstaern.se
Band Members: Anne-Sophie Andersen, Håkan Hardenberger, Sara Hammarström, Kjetil Myklebust, Terje Thiwång, Pierre Torwald, Hege Waldeland, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Symfoniorkestern Norrköping, Symfoniorkestern vid Norrlandsoperan, Malmö Symfoniorkester, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Kungliga Filharmoniska Orkestern, Nordiska Ungdomsorkester, Jönköpings Sinfonietta, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Brass Molto, Östgötamusiken, Aero Ensemble, Ensemble Rumore, Aspekte New Music Ensemble, Musica Vitae, Huaröds Kammarorkester, Trio Altaïr, Trio Frygla, Trio Sleipnír
Influences: Igor Stravinsky, Magnus Lindberg, Gerard Grisey, Gustav Mahler, Steve Reich, Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Matthias Pintscher, Ingvar Lidholm, Sven-David Sandström, Olivier Messiaen, Morton Feldman, Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and more…
Sounds Like: Not like anything else
Record Label: C-Y Contemporary, Edition Suecia, STIM, Gehrmans
Type of Label: Indie

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New pieces added on MySpace

Check out Nattens djupa violoncell (an excerpt from a recording on Phono Suecia) with Anna Larsson, Sonanza Ensemble and conductor Jan Risberg and also Ballo from the first performance in Jönköping wi...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 14:30:00 GMT

Tvärdrag available for listening as streamed music

Tvärdrag is now available for listening as a streamed feature on Benjamin Staern Composer's site. The recording is used by kind permission from Malmö Opera. Performers: Per-Otto Johansson and str...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:05:00 GMT

STAERN AWARDED CULTURAL GRANT IN MUSIC FROM SPARBANKSSTIFTELSEN SKÅNE

MOTTAGARE AV SPARBANKSSTIFTELSEN SKÅNES KULTURSTIPENDIUMStaern tilldelas Sparbanksstiftelsen Skånes kulturstipendium i musik 2007 på en utdelningsceremoni på Malmö Konsthall. Motiveringen löd:"Den ung...
Posted by on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:03:00 GMT