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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

New album ”Pållans låtar” recorded!
Wow! Another glimmering week in Studio Epidemin with the musical friends in my dreams. In reality:) Per Strandberg g/voc, Olle Linder b/voc/perc, Ossian Ward dr/voc/perc, [...]
New CD´s with choir music
Two beautiful new CDs with choir music: 1) Erik Westbergs Vokalensemble "The cloud of unknowing". Humble to find my "Sunplay - 55 bars before dusk" [...]
New release on Edition Skellton
New release on Edition Skellton: "Growing, coming, filling up" for Soprano saxophone. Dedicated to and commissioned by Anders Paulsson, within his solo Youtube project [...]
Vädret (The weather) – first performance
Finally! "Vädret" in concert 30/8 Ödsmål church. A special, "taylor-made" commission for wonderful Chalmus music week in Ljungskile. Mixed choir, recitation, piano and ping pong [...]

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Missa Praesentis Dialectica
17/09/2022

Finally, after 22 years. First performance of my dialectical mass, which contains several prophane poems as a relief to the liturgical parts. I composed [...]
PAO Trio concert calender/show
Lunch show! As one of the results from the work with my album "Pållans låtar - till slut, från början", I formed a piano trio [...]
Mytomania
01/09/2023

Opera in two acts. Commissioned by Gothenburg Opera. PREMIERE POSTPONED to September 2023. Nelly (soprano): Kerstin Avemo Francis (tenor): Joakim Bäckström Harald (barytone): Åke [...]
Spår vägar (Paths traces) – first performance
01/11/2023

A vocal symphony in precarious times. Choir, orchestra, organ and video art. Commissioned by Gothenburg symphony orchestra. First performance postponed to November 2023, Gothenburg [...]

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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