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Rickard Åström

Pianist, Composer, Musical Director, Researcher

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Well-sought for professional musician and composer since 25 years, performing in many styles. Tours in Canada, USA, Iceland, Europe, South Africa, India, and more.

Dual Grammy-winner with Groupa

One of the first musicians in Sweden to get an employment in musikalliansen.org, a support from the Swedish government to professional musicians

Recurrent Musical Director, Musician, Conductor and Composer for the Opera house in Gothenburg

Testimonials

Your music is the gate to the kingdom of heaven. in the middle of the white and black, embracing the richness of all colours your music dwells, weightless, heavy, resting, playful, loving. Your music answers the calling of mankind.

Ulla Märta Lundegård
Ulla Märta Lundegård artist and poet

"You create a room that is like a better place for me, like the unborn parts of me are infused with life and movement so that I can be reborn in a natural way. My whole being is vitalized."

Laila Klausen
Laila Klausen

Performed at:

The Barbican centre,
Royal College of Music, London
London int. Jazz festival
Queens hall, Edinburgh
The Sage, Newcastle
Village Gate, New York
Cedar cultural centre, Swedish American Institute, Minneapolis, MN
the Dakota, St Paul, MN
Swedish American museum, Chicago
Matinee der Lieder Sänger, Köln, WDR
Hultsfred, SE
Stockholm Water Festival, SE
Rudolstadt Folk festival, DE
Folk Baltica, DE
Falun folk festival, SE
Urkult, SE
Kiihaus Folk, Rääkylä, FI
Haapavesi Folk Festival, FI
Lillehammer, NO
Dranouter, BE
San Sebastian/Donostia, ES
Pontardawe and Wadebridge, UK
Glasgow, BBC
Viljandi, Estonia
Maramurez, Romania
Uleåborg Jazz festival
Umeå int. Jazz festival
And...
in South Africa, India, Iceland, Canada and more

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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

Rickard Åström

Phone: +46 708 210515

Email: rickard@rickardastrom.com

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