Susanne Rosenberg

Susanne Rosenberg (born 29 August 1957) is a Swedish folk music singer, vocal coach, and teacher at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. She performs traditional folk techniques such as kulning (cattle calling) as well as Baroque, jazz and contemporary art music. She is founder and a singer with the folk group Rosenberg 7, an octet of four vocalists and four string players.

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Susanne Rosenberg
Born (1957-08-29) 29 August 1957
Education
Occupation
  • folk singer
  • academic teacher
Years active1987 (1987)–present
Organization

Teaching career

Rosenberg studied musicology at the Stockholm University and has a degree as a singing teacher from the Royal College of Music. She was a teacher at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 1987 to 1991. She has been a teacher at the Royal College of Music from 1992, now a lecturer and head of the department of folk music there.

Music career

Rosenberg is one of Sweden's most established folk music singers. She has great variety of vocal expression, seen in her traditional folk techniques such as kulning (cattle calling), as well as in Baroque, jazz and contemporary art music.[1] She has been a pioneer in rediscovering old folk songs and using them in new artistic context. Rosenberg has often collaborated with composer Karin Rehnqvist and singer Lena Willemark.[2] Rehnquist appreciated the singers' "command both of Swedish folk music and of complicated notation".[2] She composed for them in 1989 her second major vocal composition, Puksånger & lockrop (Timpanum Songs – Herding Calls) for two singers and percussion, in which kulning "begins the piece and sets the atmosphere for the entire work", followed by a section based on "condescending traditional Finnish proverbs" about women, described as "highly effective satiric attacks on misogyny. This section is followed immediately by a kulning section, which represents a rebellion against the previous ideas".[3] The singers performed the piece first at the 1989 Falun Folk Music Festival,[2] also at the ISCM Festival in Stockholm in 1994.[4] They were soloists in recordings of Rehnqvist's works on CDs, such as in 1996 Davids nimm with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 1999 Solsången with the Sundsvall Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Niklas Willén.[5] Rosenberg has worked with directors such as Peter Oskarson and Leif Stinnerbom.

Rosenberg started two folk music groups, Rosenbergs Sjua or Rosenberg 7 (Rosenberg's Septet)[6] and Rotvälta (Windthrow)[7] and has toured with them in Europe, United States and Asia. She has released numerous records since the 1980s beginning with both groups and as a soloist. The album R7 of four singers with fiddle, viola and cello was reviewed as "sometimes ethereal, sometimes traditional, but always powerful and compelling".[8]

Rosenberg was awarded the 2011 Award Årets traditionsbärare[9] (Tradition keeper of the Year) at the world and folk music gala in Gothenburg.

References
  1. Plantenga, Bart (8 February 2013). Yodel in Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-299-29053-5.
  2. Rehnqvist, Karin. "Miller Theatre Program Notes / Composer Portraits: Karin Rehnqvist" (PDF). Miller Theatre. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  3. John David White; Jean Christensen (2002). New Music of the Nordic Countries. Pendragon Press. p. 503. ISBN 978-1-57647-019-0.
  4. "Musical ambassadors from the North". Det virtuelle Musikbibliothek. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  5. "Karin Rehnqvist" (in German). Hochschule für Musik Hamburg. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  6. Harris, Craig. "Rosenberg 7". Allmusic. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  7. Vitale, Joe (2006). Viaggio nell'etnomusica: tradizioni e nuove tendenze dai qawal alle tribù del XXI secolo : manuale di musica popolare. ILA Palma. ISBN 9788877044174.
  8. Phares, Heather. "Review / Rosenberg 7". Allmusic. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  9. Ahlbom, Peter. "TIDIGARE GALOR". folkgalan.se. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
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