Organizer: Music center

In 2025, 250 years of Jewish life in Sweden will be celebrated across the country. In connection with this national celebration, Anne Kalmering & Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic will be presenting a concert that…

Together with the network Konstmusiksystrar, we focus in this conversation on contemporary art music in Sweden, written by female authors from the network, and talk with them about creative processes and the importance of…

The Danish composer, music theorist and theosophist Tekla Griebel Wandall (1866–1940) is currently being rediscovered. This evening, Odeum is visited by musicologist Thomas Husted Kirkegaard who (in clear Danish) introduces Griebel...

Welcome to a moment of relaxation as Odeum invites you to a forty-five minute break in the middle of the day with chamber music by students from the Malmö Academy of Music. The guitarists from perhaps the most respected…

The history of music is filled with works that surprised, shocked, refused or imitated, works that became milestones in history and that still arouse wonder and curiosity to this day. One of these works…

Welcome to a moment of relaxation from everyday stress as Odeum invites you to a forty-five minute break in the middle of the day with chamber music by students at the Malmö Academy of Music. This time it will be…

For the fifth time, Odeum invites you to the Lund Contemporary festival, a biennial for contemporary art music that is organized in collaboration with a number of local and regional actors. We look forward to…

For the fifth Lund Contemporary festival in a row, music college students have composed organ music to be premiered in Lund's stately cathedral on Saturday morning. Organists Mats Hultkvist and Ben Baldwin will take on the works composed…

What would a festival with the theme "Visual" be without its own festival illustrator? The artist Jenny Soep has extensive experience of drawing and painting ongoing live performances in real time and thus on a…

Can music leave its sounding universe and pass into other arts that reach us in other ways than through hearing? Guitarist, composer and artist Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete, PhD student, is researching this...

We build on the audience success from previous Lund Contemporary festivals by once again inviting you to a grand choral concert in All Saints' Church! In collaboration with Körcentrum Syd, composition students from the Academy of Music in…

Graphic notation is what it is called when the composer chooses to use images or other visual symbols and elements of a not necessarily "musical" character instead of traditional notes to note...

The internationally acclaimed and Grammy-nominated violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved is again a guest at Lund Contemporary. Sheppard Skærved, who has a large production of disc recordings under his belt and is frequently employed as a solo violinist...

Come and be mesmerized by the sinuous forms of one of the most visually distinctive instruments: the 1500th century serpent. The concept of new music for old instruments is inherently…

Let the music be your guide and lead you through the Museum of Sketches and its collections! Four composition students from the Academy of Music in Malmö have each selected a work of art at the museum to let...

The neurological phenomenon of synaesthesia has given rise to both music and visual art throughout the ages. In a synesthete, two or more senses are connected; some can e.g. hear colors, others can…

At the university's annual celebration at the beginning of the year, Sweden's by far the most established instrumental soloist receives a gold medal from the hand of the rector, the internationally acclaimed trumpeter and professor Håkan Hardenberger. A well-deserved award…

What would a festival with the theme "Visual" be without its own festival illustrator? The artist Jenny Soep has extensive experience of drawing and painting ongoing live performances in real time and thus on a…

Holocaust Remembrance Day falls annually on January 27, and in 2025 it will be 80 years since the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated. During the 1930s, the Nazis began a systematic cleansing of the German Jews through legislation…

Welcome to a moment of relaxation from everyday stress as Odeum invites you to a forty-five minute break in the middle of the day. The guitarists from perhaps the most respected education in classical guitar in Sweden...