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Anders Hultqvist

Professor

Music
Telephone
+46 31-786 42 52
+46 733-38 82 98
Mail
anders.hultqvist@hsm.gu.se
Visiting address
Eklandagatan 86
41259 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 210
Göteborg

About Anders Hultqvist

Anders Hultqvist, Professor of Composition at the Academy of Music and Drama, GU.

Hultqvist’s various commissions and compositional projects (1985-2024) consists of works for Orchestra, various Chamber music constellations, Sound Art installations, Choral works, Musical drama, Electroacoustic works, as well as film and theater music. He has also curated musical and scientific events as a Festival director, Conference organizer, and Journal editor.

Research projects, as well as artistic works, frequently takes as its point of departure a combination of artistic, literary, cognitive, physiological, and social perspectives. Some of the more extensive projects include At the Conceptual Limits of Composition. A Shrinking Emptiness - Meaning, Chaos and Entropy (2015-19) which explored the artistic creation of meaning in musical and literary composition. The research project Towards an Expanded Field of Art Music circled around the work concept and our interpretational musical tradition. The two projects Transmission – Urban experiments in Sound Art and Sonic Space, and Into Noise dealt with questions around urban sound environments and was carried out within the cross disciplinary research group USIT – Urban Sound Institute. Sounding Norrbotten and Instrumenting(s) are two currently ongoing artistic research projects.

Hultqvist has a PhD in Musicology (artistic creative track) from the University of Gothenburg.