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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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Release concert at Utopia Jazz – MERA Pållans låtar
MERA Pållans låtar had it's release concert in Utopia Jazz, Gothenburg 23/2. A wonderful night. Crowded with a listening audience and a band from heaven. [...]
Missa Praesentis Dialectica, Älvsborg church
THANK YOU ALL who made Missa Praesentis Dialectica, composed to the turn of the millennium come alive after 22 years. In this mass I put several [...]
Release concert Stockholm MERA Pållans låtar
Thank you all who joined me in Stockholm in our in advance - release concert just a week before Christmas. I was happy to meet [...]
Spotify release: Göteborgs jubileumsfanfar
The official Jubilee fanfare for the city of Gothenburg's 400th anniversary released on Spotify and all other streaming platforms. Co - composer Jerker Johansson [...]

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UPCOMING EVENTS

PAO Trio- Pållan´s musical menu at PorterPelle
11/03/2023

A musical show based on the songs from my two double albums 2022. "Pållans låtar - till slut, från början" and "MERA Pållans låtar". I [...]
COOPERANDUM
22/03/2023

First performance of COOPERANDUM for excellent Ume Duo - Karolina Öman cello, Erika Öman percussion. Grünewaldsalen, Konserthuset, Stockholm 22 March 12.15, within the festival Svensk [...]
DESIRE ENCAPSULATED
26/03/2023

Humble and happy to announce that my second saxophone quartet Desire encapsulated will be performed by Slovenian saxophone quartet 4saxess, within the festival Svensk Musikvår. [...]
EDGE OF THE WEDGE
02/04/2023

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 [...]

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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