The Artistic Direction of Vox Pacis
unilla NordlundArtistic director, stage director and initiator of Vox Pacis.
Gunilla has been active since1983 in staging opera and theatre productions. To be mentioneded here are "La Mama", Ayra.Leena", ” Runkärlek/Lover for Runes", "Hemlig viskning/Secret whisper". She has worked as a teacher and a mentor in drama, film and art education. Her productions of musical dramas, choir concerts and oratoria have attracted attention since she has brought together songs, images and dances from various aboriginal cultures, like the Sami and the Tibetan, and given them modern forms of expression. Gunilla has worked in Sweden, Norway and India. For many years she has studied and worked with Tibetan opera and is currently preparing a documentary film about this form of opera and about Dalai Lama in exile in the Himalayas in northern India.
lva Q ArkvikComposer.
Ylva has in the first place composed instrumental music ranging from soloist parts to orchestras, but also some minor chamber operas and electro-accoustic works. She is inspired by the encounter between different forms of expression and likes to work with other artists like sculptors, dancers and poets. With E. Runefelt, a poet, she created the chamber opera "Solitario" and with E. Ström, an author, the opera "Du får inte gå/You must not leave" on the theme of September 1th. Together with C. Östberg she has composed the music of the ballet "Den lysande kroppen/The shining body". To her diploma from the composers education at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, she holds a degree as a piano teacher and as a cantor and she is an active chorister. Living in South America for some years has opened her mind to other musical trends than the European. A recent compostiton is "Tidsgömmor/Hidden time" for two soloists, mixed voices, orchestra and electronic sound, the text specially written by Runefelt, a work that was broadcasted in May 2006 on the Swedish National Radio (P2) and recorded on CD .
onas DominiqueConductor,
with a degree also as composer within many genres and a contrabass musician from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He was invited to many places in the Nordic countries as a conductor. But most of all his work and spirit are connected with the Folk opera in Stockholm conducting operas such as ”Tosca”, ”Orpheo”, ”Romeo and Juliette”, ”The Love for Three Oranges ”, ”Batman” and ”The Abduction of the Seraglio”. At the Park theatre in Stockholm he has conducted ”Carmen” and ”The Masquerade Ball” and at the Norrland opera inUmeå in northern Sweden ”The Threepenny Opera”. In the autumn of 2006 he conducted the ”Cosi fan tutte” in Hanoi, Vietnam, a joint performance with the Norrland opera from Sweden. He is frequently engaged by the Stockholm county wind band symphony orchestra including also the production of a CD with Hindemith’s symphony for a wind band orchestra. Jonas has been co-operating as well with the Stockholm Philharmonians as with the Radio Symphony orchestras.
eikko KiiverMusic-projectleader in Vox Pacis. Singer (tenor), composer and pedagogue.
Veikko studied and graduated in Tallinn, Estonia and with degree in song from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. His field of action is Europe where he has been touring with his ensemble ”Scala Jacobi” and other groups performing early music in the Baltic states, in Russia and in the USA as well.Stage and costume designer.
Sten has many years of experience from working with free theatre companies as well as with national theatre institutions throughout Scandinavia. Sten worked with the open-air production of “Lysistrate” which was performed by the Stockholm Municipal Theatre and the Park theatre and also with the production of “Slaget om Stäket/The battle of Stäket” performed during the Stockholm Culture Capital events in 1998. Sten has worked as stage designer at the Norwegian theatre in Oslo and with the stageing of ”A Midsummers Night´s Dream” at the National scene in Bergen, Norway, produced by Leif Stinnerbom. He has also worked with the Aahus Academy of theatre in Denmark.
hrister NorrbyLight designer
Christer worked with the Stockholm Municipal theatre as chief master of lighting. He founded Spectra, one of the largest companies for hiring equipment for illumination and events. He has been responsible for the lighting of small and big performances, events, open air arenas and TV productions.
Author, playwright, translator, culture journalist.
When living in Asia and the Middle East during periods of her life, she worked within theatre and tv as a playwright, producer, stage director and actress.After graduating in theatre history at the Stockholm University and the Calle Flygare Theatre Schoool, Kahle founded a drama school and the Karachi theatre in Karachi, Pakistan (1953-57), where she staged some of the world´s most famous works of drama in English an d in Urdu. Kahle has written theatre plays, books, articles and also translated and introduced modern Arabic poetry into Swedish. She has lived, studied and worked for long periods of her life in Pakistan, India, Iraq, Iran, Tunisia, Sudan and in the whole Middle East. Kahle has great knowledge of the religious expressions and the theatrical and poetical lives and traditions. With delicacy and deep insight she has transformed this knowledge into her own creativity and expressions.
