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Paula af Malmborg Ward is a Swedish composer and musician with a penchant for musical drama. Born in Stockholm in 1962. Composes music in a former coal tower in the old harbour area Nya Varvet, Gothenburg where she lives since 1992. Timing and text are key words in both opera creating, works for orchestra and choir, solo and ensemble and music for TV and radio.

With operas commissioned by The Royal Opera, Stockholm, Gothenburg Opera and Vadstena Academy, orchestral pieces commissioned/performed by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Swedish radio orchestra and collaborations with conductors like Gustavo Dudamel, Neeme Järvi and Kent Nagano, Paula´s musical field is of great variation in different genres.

Her chamber music is commissioned/performed by Trio Poseidon, Norrbotten Big Band, Duo Ego, Gilda Lyons, The Miller-Porfiris Duo, Bohuslän Big Band, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Duo Gelland, Erik Westbergs vocal ensemble and Hans Davidsson among others.

She loves to sing. And play. And conduct. And talk.

Thinks: being a musician must be the finest of professions.

Then thinks: but they must have something to play too.

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Latest News

In time, world premiere at festival OrganSpace in Stockholm
The festival OrganSpace is over. Thank you dear organists Hanne Kuhlmann (DK) and Sarah Kim (FRA) who performed In time for the first time - [...]
Interview on Mytomania
I had a nice talk to journalist Sofia Nyblom for Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN), on Mytomania. The articles highlights the "mythomaniac phenomenon" in our [...]
Tranströmer song book on Gothenburg International Book Fair!
New Edition Suecia release: A magnificent songbook with poems set to music by the poet, Nobel laureate, musician, human Tomas Tranströmer. As one of 28 [...]
MYTOMANIA PREMIERE
World premiere Mytomania ahead! Pictures of the artistic team here. We are excited, after more than three years since delivering the score. Sunday 8/10. 9 [...]

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Diabelli variations now and then (first perf.)
25/09/2023

As a comment to Beethoven´s Diabelli variations; pianist Mats Jansson commissioned 18 new variations from Swedish composers, on the Diabelli theme. I am lucky to [...]
Duologue Festival in NYC
28/09/2023

Always alert Miolina duo does it again! A duo festival is coming up in NYC this week. Wonderful Violin Duo Miolina will once again perform [...]
Mytomania
08/10/2023

Introducing the Toy piano in the Mytomania score, maybe things sometimes look and sound a bit different from what you expect... Just as the [...]
Pållans låtar at GO club
26/10/2023

Me and the band are happy to play at GO club - a cosy night at the Opera with friends, food, drinks, talks and music. [...]

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Som solen och månen

Children´s choir from Adolf Fredriks music school, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Fredrik Winberg, piano. Cond: Lina Sandborgh. First perfomance Folkoperan Stockholm May 7, 2022. Happy to be a part of the wonderful and important project ”Singing children” which encourages schools, teachers, composers, students to sing and work without new, unheard music as a natural part of everyone’s musical life.
Growing, coming, filling up

Piece for Anders Paulsson, soprano saxophone solo. My contribution to Anders´ project ”Solitary poems”.
Kärlekskriget
Ivonas aria (Shanowny pan!).
Amelia Jakobsson sopran
Musik Paula af Malmborg Ward
Libretto Mathias Clason
Urpremiär 2017 med Vattnäs konsertladas orkester under ledning av Fredrik Burstedt.
Vill ni ha ett frostigt päron?
Mosters aria, Tove Dahlberg mezzosopran
Musik Paula af Malmborg Ward
Libretto Magnus Nilsson
Vadstena-Akademiens orkester under ledning av Olov Boman
Foto: Staffan Gustavsson