Författare: Martina Tomner

My new composition Palindrome for saxophone octet, a commission by Stockholm Saxophone Quartet with support from the Swedish Arts Council, will be premiered by Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and Quasar Quatuor de saxophones in October 2024.

Performance dates and venues:

October 15, 19:00. Barnens Scen, Malmö.
https://www.kulturcentralen.nu/evenemang/stockholm-sax-quartet-se-quasar

October 16, 19:00. Västerås konserthus, Västerås.
https://vastmanlandsmusiken.se/event/quasar-och-stockholms-saxofonkvartett/

October 18, 20:30. Konserthuset Stockholm, Grünewaldsalen.
https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/new-friday-with-double-ensembles/

October 24, 19:30. Salle Bourgie, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada.
https://quasar4.com/en/events/2024-2025-season/saxoctet

October 27, 15:00. Centre d’Expérimentation Musicale, Chicoutimi, Canada.
https://quasar4.com/en/events/2024-2025-season/quasar-ssq-chicoutimi

The choral piece Porten for women’s chorus will be premiered on May 4, 2022, 19:30, at Malmö Live. The piece was commissioned by Körcentrum Syd and is based on a speech by Selma Lagerlöf. It will be performed by the choir Korallerna conducted by Linda Alexandersson.

https://malmolive.se/program/onskenatt-storslagen-korkonsert

My piece for string orchestra, Tempelmusik II (2010), will be performed by Malmö Symphony Orchestra at Malmö Live on April 29, 2021. The concert will be live streamed 7.00 PM (CET) at https://malmolive.se/program/mso-live-martinsson-brostrom-tomner-staern and also features works by Rolf Martinsson, Tobias Broström and Benjamin Staern.

Interview in Sydsvenskan: https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2021-04-23/ekot-fran-ett-vattentorn-blir-martina-tomners-uppdrag-till

The choral piece Stillheten will be premiered digitally on October 16, 2020.

Stillheten was commissioned by the Malmö-based mixed choir Mixtus Cantus with support from Körcentrum Syd and is based on texts by the Swedish poet Anneli Magnusson.

The piece will be performed by Mixtus Cantus (conducted by Martina Tomner) and percussionist Sigvald Ulstein Fersum.