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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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​New: The Dream in ‘Svarteboka​’

Svarteboka, i.e. the black book, poems and hymns, esoteric sources and witchcraft are the textual basis for a series of

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Spring 2024

13 January 2024The Riddle – at String Quartet BiennaleQuatór MetamorphosesCité de la Musique, Paris 23 January 2024Rescue me from sinking

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The Prelude before the Nobel

At a concert in Nobel week in December 2023, I Know, I'm Able / Jag vet, jag duger – committed

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All about the opera Drifted

The opera DRIFTED (Strandad, in Swedish) Music by Karin Rehnqvist.Libretto by Kerstin Perski. Opera in two acts. World premiere at

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I Know, I’m Able – to all singing children

In 2023, Karin Rehnqvist was struck with several notable compositions for choir, treble choir. After Här får du inte sitta

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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.