Kristofer Svensson, Kacapiblomster for solo kacapi 

The composer and performer Kristofer Svensson has developed a distinctive contemporary practice for the kacapi, a traditional Sundanese zither from West Java. Svensson's kacapi music can be heard on the solo album Andra Segel and For Violin, Snare & Kacapi, a trio recording with Maya Bennardo and Etienne Nillesen. 

Chloë Sobek, solo for violone (Renaissance double bass)

Working primarily with the Renaissance violone, Chloë Sobek treats the instrument as a site of material resistance and historical continuity: a sounding body through which traces of the past are reactivated in the present. Layering archival fragments, environmental sound, improvisation and extended string techniques, Sobek combines maximalist intensity with an attention to material thresholds, pushing sound and instrument toward points of ‘breakage’ where presence begins to fracture, recede and persist as trace.

I will perform a tea and music performance at the Collision Points Festival in Ankarsrum, Sweden

More info:

https://www.collisionpointsfestival.com/kristofer-svensson

Performing 'Nīhāra' with Maya Bennardo and Prague Quiet Music Collective at Prague Quiet Music Festival 2026.

Prague Quiet Music Collective premiers 'Stilla sol' at Prague Quiet Music Festival 2026.

Maya Bennardo will be performing my solo violin piece 'Duk med broderi och bordets kant' at the Prague Quiet Music Festival 2026.

I will perform my guided talk on listening and meditation titled “Listening Into Nothing: A Guided Talk on Objectless Listening” at the Prague Quiet Music Festival 2026.

Performing 'Nīhāra' with Maya Bennardo and Prague Quiet Music Collective at Prague Quiet Music Festival 2026.

I will be performing my solo kacapi piece ‘Kacapiblomster’ at the Prague Quiet Music Festival 2026

I will premiere my new piece ‘Ionisk Morgon’ together with Fading Interval Ensemble and Mattias Hållsten’s new piece Its Long Fall Through the Sky

Mattias Hållsten premiering four new pieces for shō. At Svensk Musikvår.

At Stadsbiblioteket, Uppsala - presented by Klang Konst

trio with Etienne Nillesen and Maya Bennardo @ Khimaira in Stockholm

https://echoraum.at/loriole-%c2%b7-bennardo-svensson-nillesen/

trio with Etienne Nillesen and Maya Bennardo

WIM Bern
trio with Etienne Nillesen and Kristofer Svensson
Bern, CH

https://wimbern.ch/bennardo-nillesen-svensson-sylvain-monchoce-mikael-szafirowski/

Three works for violin by Kristofer Svensson performed by Maya Bennardo.

Förglömda toner (World premiere)
Duk med broderi och bordets kant
Anantachāritra, for violin and sustained tones (World premiere)

Doors open at 3pm for food (included in ticket price)

Concert starts 4pm.

This event is part of a series of four intimate concerts at Yeshin Norbu Meditation Centre in Stockholm featuring original work by artists who engage in meditation practices across a variety of Buddhist traditions.

About the pieces:

The three pieces for violin performed by Maya Bennardo in this concert highlight three different ways of relating to emptiness. The first piece, ‘Förglömda toner’ (Forgotten tones), uses quiet, plain tones articulated through sparse melodic variations and suspended over contrasting, extended silences. The second piece, ‘Duk med broderi och bordets kant’ (Embroidered cloth and table’s edge), seeks instead to establish a continuum between pure tones and indeterminacy by moving between silence, hushed white noises, noiseful half-harmonics, harmonics, and simple tones. The third piece, ‘Anantachāritra’ (Boundless practice), takes a different approach and has the violin play against a sustained sound, slowly nudging different nodes to reveal the background environment as an interconnected, lyrical, resonant structure.

Bearthoven premieres the program ‘a stony place where birches grow’, consisting of Maya Bennardo’s ‘ as the swallows fly’ and Kristofer Svensson’s ‘Mellan vita stammar’

This concert is presented by Bang on a Can as part of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at Mass MoCA. FREE with Mass MoCA gallery admission.

Performing ‘Siteran’ at Skaiv. Also on the concert: a set of solo music by Maya Bennardo.

I’ll be premiering my piece for three chord zithers, Siteran, at Fylkingen.

https://fylkingen.se/sv/events/clubovisation-57-vilhelm-bromander-and-rasten-pip

https://fylkingen.se/sv/events/encounters-1-Cjf

Performing a duo improvisation with Ferdinand Schwarz and performing a piece by Antti Tolvi.

https://ronnells.se/events/silence-music-concert-serie-vol-x-ronnells/

Performing a set with Maya Bennardo and Erik Blennow Calälv at the Oasen series at Timmermansgården.

I will perform my solo piece ‘Kacapiblomster’ as well as doing an improvised set with Katsura Yamauchi.

https://www.tokyogigguide.com/en/gigs/event/33324-katsura-yamauchi-kristofer-svensson

Program:

Pattern of Plants - The Fourteenth Collection (2006-2020) – Mamoru Fujieda

dormant gardens la. (2022) – Maya Bennardo

Så vill jag glömma (2022) – Kristofer Svensson

Brief Intermission

aria (2023) – Linda Catlin Smith

Trio Abstrakt performs ‘Framför stillheten’ as part of their confuences program at Klangzeit Münster 2024.

https://gnm-muenster.de/klangzeit12_trioabstrakt

Trio Abstrakt premieres Framför stillheten on a program with premiers by Rachel C. Walker and Johanna Sulalampi.

Miyama McQueen-Tokita premieres 'Som morgongånga betraktad' at Ryogoku Monten Hall, Tokyo.

The concert will be performed twice: 14:00 and 19:00

https://www.concertsquare.jp/blog/2024/2024080846.html

Please reserve tickets here: https://khimaira.se/kontakt.html

*We let you in through the stairs between 18.45-19.00*
Tickets: 120:-
WELCOME!

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Maya Bennardo, violin
Hannah Levinson, viola

Program:

I den gyllne luften (2022) by Kristofer Svensson
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aria (2023) by Linda Catlin Smith
Maya Bennardo

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Svävande skuggor (2023) by Kristofer Svensson
Hannah Levinson

dormant gardens i. (2022) by Maya Bennardo
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Hannah Levison performs ‘Svävande skuggor’ in Gothenburg

CARRIE FREY with ADRIANNE MUNDEN-DIXON and JULIA HENDERSON performing works by Anna Heflin, inti figgis-vizueta, Theo Haber, Kristofer Svensson, and more.