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Autumn 2025

9 August 2025When I close my eyes I dream of peaceThe Swedish National Youth Choir, The Norwegian National Youth Choir,

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World premiere of Take the Milky Way in Helsinki

A new choral work by Karin Rehnqvist for mixed choir, baroque orchestra and ad libitum audience will be heard on

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Album release of Silent Earth

The long-awaited release: Karin Rehnqvist's acclaimed work Silent Earth is now available for download or streaming. It is a gripping

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Spring 2025

1 January 2025Day is here!YouTube releaseDet Norske Solistkor, Ensemble Allegria, Grete Pedersen, conductor 28 January 2025…and so the day endsStockholm

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Do not fear the darkness

Many describe 2024 as a dark year. So much in our world seems to be going in the wrong direction.

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Universe – Rehnqvist piece in the new choral anthology

The German music publisher Carus Verlag has, in a unique and ambitious venture, collected choral works by female composers from

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Karin Rehnqvist is portrayed in Gramophone

In its November 2024 issue, the prestigious British (and internationally distributed) music magazine Gramophone presents a portrait of Karin Rehnqvist

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Autumn 2024

11 August 2024 VaultsStockholm Chamber BrassGamle Aker Kirke, Oslo 16–17 August 2024NYTT Festival16/8: The DreamMonica Danielsson, song, Christian Berg, celloTransjö

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TAKE THE MILKY WAY

THE DREAM

LIGHT OF LIGHT – BRIGHT, SHIMMERING

TAROMIRS TID

I begin in the depths of the water ...

… she has created one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music since Ligeti and Penderecki first emerged in the early 1960s. – Guy Rickards

Listen to the Music

Intro

In my music, trumpets are not allowed to play fanfares.
I do not use the kettledrums to emphasize the important thing during climax.
The French horns are not heroic.

No, with me the female voices are allowed to stand for the fanfares, they are allowed to signal,
and the kettledrums are allowed to sing their own songs, perform their own line.