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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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MYTOMANIA TICKETS
World premiere Mytomania ahead! Librettist Kerstin Perski and myself are excited, after more than three years since delivering the score. Sunday 8/10. 9 performances in [...]
EDGE OF THE WEDGE world premiere in KIL
KIL's municipal culture school celebrates 60 years!! I am the proud composer who got the commission: a special piece for their huge student orchestra, including [...]
Film and panel talks on Missa Praesentis Dialectica
For those who missed my "Millennium mass" Missa Praesentis Dialectica. Linked below, you find a film with the entire concert. Also watch interesting pre-talks with [...]
Tranströmer song book released!
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 [...]

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UPCOMING EVENTS

COOPERANDUM in Basel
13/05/2023

Europe premiere of COOPERANDUM, composed especially for and dedicated to wonderful Ume Duo. Tickets
NYC premiere of Broken bleak roe and choppy chanterelles
26/05/2023

Spectacular The Skyscraper museum, N.Y.C opens the door for violin Duo MIOLINA - Mioi Takeda & Lynn Bechtold who will perform Broken bleak roe and [...]
Göteborg 400 years, Jubilee fanfare!
02/06/2023

Finally - the party is on! Celebrating Göteborg 400 years, the Jubilee fanfare by Jerker Johansson and myself will be performed twice. 2/6 in addition [...]
Desire encapsulated on Katrina chamber music festival, Åland
10/08/2023

Wonderful Stockholm Saxophone quartet, once again performing Desire Encapsulated. Katrina chamber music festival, with artistic director, violinist and professor Cecilia Zilliacus invites you to i [...]

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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