Susanne Rosenberg (born 29 August 1957) ) is a Swedish folk singer, professor, and researcher. Susanne Rosenberg grew up outside Stockholm and has been a freelance singer since the early 1980s. She studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm on an individual performance programme from 1984 to 1988. Rosenberg has been a teacher there since 1992 and professor (2016) of folk singing. Between 2004 and 2020 she was head of the Department of Folk Music.

Academic career

She studied

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...

from 1982 to 1984, which resulted in the thesis centered around a traditional singer singing style. 1987 and 1991, she worked as a teacher at the

Sibelius Academy The Sibelius Academy (, ) is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It also has an adult education centre in Järvenpää and a training centre in Seinäjoki ...

in Helsinki. In 2013, Rosenberg defended her doctoral studies in collaboration with the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the

with the artistic dissertatio
"Kurbits-ReBoot – Swedish Folk singing in a new artistic context."

Music career

Rosenberg is one of Sweden's most established folk singers today. Her vocal expression has excellent breadth, from older folk song techniques such as kulning to baroque, jazz, and modern art music. She is also active as a researcher, pedagogue, composer, arranger, and writer. Susanne Rosenberg has been a pioneer in rediscovering older folk singing style and using it in new artistic contexts both in terms of her artistic expression and educator and for polyphonic singing and choir. During the 1990s, she developed polyphonic folk singing in her "Folk Women's Choir" (1993-1996), and she has also written works for choirs such as "Pust" (2000), "Stjärnan" (2013), "Missa Vox Mundi" (2021). In Sweden, she has collaborated with the composer

Karin Rehnqvist Karin Rehnqvist (born 21 August 1957) is a Swedish composer and conductor of classical music. She composes chamber music, orchestral works, music for the stage, and particularly vocal music, incorporating elements of folk music such as the vocal t ...

and premiered several works written directly for Rosenberg such as "Puksånger - Lockrop" (1989), "Hetluft" (1993) "Rädda mig ur dyn" (1997), "Så går en dag" (2000), and with directors such as Peter Oskarsson (Den Stora Vreden, 1988–1990) and Leif Stinnerbom ("Ljuset" 1996). Outside Sweden, she collaborated with

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and

Clark Terry Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American Swing music, swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator. He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948� ...

(Sonic Convergence 2001) and in Japan with

Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Music of Japan, Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the Synthesizer, synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his ...

(L I F E 2000). Among her artistic projects are "Syn för sägen" (1995)�
"ReBoot-OmStart"
� (2010),�
"Kurbits-Koral - The Spirit of the moment"
� (2010),�
"Getens horn"
� (2011),�
"Voice Space"
� (2013)�
"Folk Vocal"
� (2014) and others. Since 2014, she has been conducting the artistic research projec
”Folk Song Lab"
with the support of the

Swedish Research Council The Swedish Research Council () is a Government agency in Sweden established in 2001, with the responsibility to support and develop basic scientific research. Its objective is for Sweden to be a leading nation in scientific research. The agen ...

(2019-2021). Rosenberg is active in several research fields and has published articles in

Kulning Kulning, also known as the Nordic herding call, refers to high-pitched herding calls that were developed centuries ago in Norway and Sweden. Different regions have different names for these calls, such as ''kauka'', ''lålla'', ''kula'', ''kulok ...

, folk song style, Improvisation, and artistic research. She has also developed and published several educational methods and materials in folk singing, folk singing style and kulning. As head of the Department of Folk Music at KMH, Rosenberg developed many pedagogical concepts, courses, and programs. She has been influential in developing folk music education in Higher Music Education, not only in Sweden. As a teacher, she has taught most of today's young folk singers who have studied at KMH and have developed topics such as folk song methodology and kulning and folk song singing courses. She started the folk music groups Rosenbergs Sjua, Krus och Rotvälta and has toured Europe, the US, and Asia. Other groups she has participated in is Kvickrot, Höök, Out of Time and Country, Luftstråk, and she has been published on phonograms since the 1980s both with groups and as soloists. Rosenberg has on several occasions received artist's scholarship and research funding. Rosenberg was appointed member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Music The Royal Swedish Academy of Music (), founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in ...

in 2015. Since 1988 she has been married to fiddler and researcher

Sven Ahlbäck Sven is a Scandinavian masculine first name. In Old Norse the meaning was "young man" or "servant" and the original Old Norse spelling was ''sveinn''. Variants such as '' Svend'' are found in Danish and Norwegian. Another variant, ''Svein'' i ...

References

External links

Susanne Rosenberg
Official Website
Department of Folk Music

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...

Kulning with Susanne Rosenberg
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenberg, Susanne 1957 births Living people Swedish folk singers Swedish women folk singers Academic staff of the Royal College of Music, Stockholm Stockholm University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Swedish women academics Academic staff of the University of the Arts Helsinki Swedish expatriates in Finland