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Rickard Åström

Pianist, Composer, Musical Director, Researcher

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Rickard is a frequent lecturer, invited to Universities, health institutions, music festivals etc. He shares insights from the research project he is involved in and illustrates by performing live music at the Piano. He also conducts live experiments, revealing the heart rates of singers while singing, studying the Heart rate synchronization.

Previous venues (excerpt):
The Royal College of Music, London,
Karolinska institute, Stockholm, American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, University of Missouri, USA, Ted talks, Music and Choir Festivals, and more.

See below for Upcoming dates in the Footer.

Performing in Swiss TV

Royal College of Music, London

Heart pulse of Performers visualised

Choir festival Umeå

Performing during Ted Talk

“A sign of having witnessed something very good and engaging is when it occupies your thoughts long after it’s over. That’s how it was today at Carlforsska with Rickard Åström.”

Willy Berg
Willy Berg

"Your presentation should be a model for all presentations. Apart from the content, that I just loved, it was a presentation that had it all. Something for the ear, for the heart, for the brain, and it was fun. Thank you."

Dianne
Dianne teacher, Newcastle, Australia

"Thank you for your brilliant and captivating lecture! We now carry a lot of dedication and interest in music and how it affects our health. I wish we could rewind time and relive yesterday evening. I am highly satisfied with the content you presented, it was exactly what I wanted you to discuss. We got to experience actual scientific research, which shall be present in school as education, relying on a scientific foundation and well-tried experience. Now it will be more important for us to work with our profile music, drama and movement, now that we have deepened our knowledge of how these affect us."

Ulrika Haglund
Ulrika Haglund principal Vistaholm cultural preschool

Fabulously interesting, Nicely presented, Inspired me to keep singing, Wonderful Synchronisation between Music and Health, Inclusive.

Reactions in survey after lecture at National Centre for Early Music, York, UK
Reactions in survey after lecture at National Centre for Early Music, York, UK Anonymous http://www.ncem.co.uk/byrd

Watch my Lecture in Music and Health from Karolinska institute November 18 1999. Performance include live music and live monitoring of Hearts of Choir singers. Lecture is in English.
Föreläsning i musik och Hälsa från konferens om Spetspatienter på Karolinska institutet.

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Publications

  • Music structure determines heart rate variability of singers, Vickhoff, Åström, et al. Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 09 July 2013 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00334
  • Musical Piloerection, Vickhoff, Åström et al. Music and Medicine, April 2012 vol. 4 no. 2 82-89
Time Magazine
Voice of America
BBC News

Swedish Press

  • Musik är rena medicinen | GP
  • Ljudmagasinet Intervju om Kultur och Hälsa

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Upcoming events

2021

  • 21 June, Midnight sun in Jokkmokk, with Elin Teilus
  • 22 July Korrö festival with Nina Perez
  • 25 July Sjungaregården Granö, with Elin Teilus
  • 1 Sept Sametingets öppnande, Lycksele, Elin Teilus
  • 3 Sept Gothenburg folk festival, with Groupa
  • 25 Sept, Lunds Stadsteater, Peter Elmberg
  • 2 Oktober, Järna folkets hus, Nina Pérez
  • 14 Nov, Kista bibliotek, Elin Teilus
  • 26 Nov Stallet, Kista världsmusikfestival, Elin Teilus
  • 12 Dec Kulturmejeriet Lund, Groupa
  • 18 Dec Karlstad Arena, Nina Pérez

2020

  • 26 Jan Live Performance in TV4 Sweden with Linda Bengtzing and Lotta Engberg
  • 6 Feb Jokkmokk market, Elin Teilus
  • 15 Feb Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Elin Teilus
  • 5 April, Folk music from Dalecarlia to Africa, with Edo Bumba and Anders Nyberg, Västervik, Sweden CANCELLED
  • 18 April, Teatro del barracano, Bologna, Elin Teilus CANCELLED
  • 25 April, Wirkstatt Auboden, Switzerland, CANCELLED
  • 25 April Lecture in Music and the heart, Singen bewegt das Herz, Wirkstat Auboden, CH CANCELLED
  • 6 June, Swedish National day, Lund, Elin Teilus CANCELLED
  • 1 Aug, Urkult Postponed until 2021
  • 5-8 August, Mundekulla music festival
  • 11 September, Lecture in Music and Health, Östersund (online)
  • 2 October
    Mother Earth Delegation of United Indigenous Nations Of the North, Elin Teilus
  • 15 October, Biblioteket, Kungsbacka 18.30
  • 9 Nov, with Elin Teilus, Alingsås Kulturhus Postponed until 2021
  • 13 Nov, Elin Teilus band, Sundsvalls teater
  • 15 Nov, with Elin Teilus, Kista bibliotek moved to 11 April 2021
  • 28 Nov, with Elin Teilus, Fem Folk Festival, Stockholm and Livestream

2019

  • 22 Jan Dalheimers hus Lecture with Rickard Åström
  • 27 Jan Live Performance in TV4 Sweden with Sanna Nielsen
  • 3 Feb Live Performance in TV4 with Andreas Johnson
  • 6 Feb  Elin Teilus Release Concert Stora Teatern, Göteborg
  • 9 Feb Elin Teilus Release concert, Ája, Jokkmokk
  • 24 Feb Live Performance in TV4 Sweden with Rigmor Gustafsson
  • 6 March Elin Teilus, Rådhustorget, Umeå, Samiska veckan
  • 24 March Live Performance in TV4 Sweden with Paul Rey
  • 27 March, Elin Teilus, kulturen i Lund
  • 11-12 April Vetenskapsfestivalen Gothenburg, “Slår ditt hjärta för musiken?”
  • 12 May Elin Teilus Vänersborg
  • 4 July, Elin Teilus Stockholm, Kungsträdgården 7 pm
  • 30 July, Elin Teilus, Östersund, picnic concert, Elin Teilus
  • 5 August, Lecture, European Choir Games, Gothenburg
  • 6-8 August, Gothenburg Cultural Festival, Trädgårdsföreningen
  • 8 August, Mundekulla Elin Teilus
  • 9 August, Mundekulla
  • 18 August, Eric Ericssonhallen, Stockholm, Elin Teilus and Perunika
  • 20 August, Nordman, tv4 Sweden 6 pm
  • 21 Oct, Östersund, Elin Teilus
  • 23 Oct, Snåsa, Norway, Elin Teilus
  • 27 Oct, Toltorpskyrkan, Gothenburg, Annica Svensson
  • 17 Nov, Lekaryd kyrka, Alvesta, Andre deLange
  • 18 Nov, Lecturing at Karolinska Institutet, Spetspatient

 

2018

  • 3 March Lecture at Music and the Mind, Newcastle, Australia
  • 22 April, Lecture at Vetenskapsfestivalen,
  • 16 May, Open Lecture University of Gothenburg,
  • 7 June, York, GB
    • National Centre for Early Music
  • 9 June, Ransäter, Sweden Concert
  • 26 July, Korrö music festival, Sweden
  • 26 Sept,Lecture Livslust, Backa Kulturhus, Göteborg
  • 3 Oct, Storsjöteatern, Östersund,
  • 6 Oct, Arjeplog, Elin Teilus
  • 14 Oct, Multimedia Concert, Lekaryd, Alvesta
  • 19-20 October, Rättviks Stiftsgård, ‘Sång som lyfter’ with Anders Nyberg och Jennifer Ferguson
  • 28 Oct, appearance in TV4, Sweden

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