VOCAL ENSEMBLE
CONDUCTOR ERIK WESTBERG
19.00 Stadthagen, Martinikirche
The Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble goes to Germany for three concerts together with Kim Hellgren, viola and David Wahlén, accordeon.
THE VOCAL ENSEMBLE
The Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble was formed in 1993 and consists of 16–20 singers. The members of the Ensemble work as soloists, church musicians and music teachers and come from northern Sweden and Finland. The Ensemble has commissioned and premiered about 60 works by composers such as Gunnar Eriksson, Paula af Malmborg Ward, Tebogo Monnakgotla, Jan Sandström, Sven-David Sandström, Carl Unander Scharin and Arvo Pärt.
In 1996, the Ensemble’s first CD Musica Sacra was released on the Opus3 label. The Ensemble has had a good 15 CDs and phonograms issued by the record companies Opus3, Studio Acusticum Records and Naxos. Vita Nuova, featuring Swedish choral music, was rated ”world class” by the music magazine OPUS.
The Ensemble has undertaken over 30 international tours to Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania. A particularly notable engagement was the project Choral Singing for Peace and Justice with a tour to Tonga and Samoa at the turn of the millennium, seen by more than 500 million TV viewers worldwide.
