Faculty members - Academy of Music and Opera at Mälardalen University
The faculty members have extensive and international experience both as musicians and teachers, as well as a wide network of contacts within the field of Music and Opera.
Vocal department
Magnus Svensson
Vocal coach/Pianist
Wind department
String department
Bartosz Cajler
Violin
Mats Nilsson
Double Bass
Piano and organ
Staffan Sandström
Piano
Johan Hammarström
Organ
Music theory
Artistic research
Visiting teachers
Alexander Niclasson – Artistic Director of Opera på Skäret.
Anders Hillborg – Composer
Anita McAllister- Speech Therapist and Associate Professor at Karolinska institutet
Ann Wallström – Senior Lecturer at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Early Music
Birgitta Svendén – CEO The Royal Opera, Court Singer, formerly Vice-Chancellor of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, honorary doctor at MDU: Art in Society
Carl Unander-Scharin - Professor, Karlstad University, Composer: Artistic research
Christian Lindberg - Trombone soloist, Conductor, Composer
Elin Rombo – Court Singer
Eva Nässén - Professor, Baroque Gesture
Eva Sundgren – Professor, Swedish
François le Roux – Professor, Baritone
Gregor Bergman - Opera Improvisation
Gustav Bergel – Swedish Music
Göran Gademan – Göteborg Opera
Göran Månsson – Percussion- Early Music
Helena Olsson – Speech Therapist
Hermann Stefánsson – Solo Clarinettist, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Inger Orre - Journalist and Associate Professor at Mälardalen University
Jan Fagius – Professor at Uppsala University about Musiken och Hjärnan (Music and the Brain)
Jan Ling – Professor Emeritus at the University of Gothenburg
Johan Glaumann – Speech Trainer
Johan Hammarström – Cathedral Organist, Conductor
Johan Hansson Lindström - Harpsichordist and Organist
Johan Sundberg – Professor Emeritus, KTH (the Royal Institute of Technology), Vocal Coach
Karin Modigh – Dancer and Choreographer Workshop with dances from the Baroque era
Catarina Gnosspelius – Stage Director, CEO Läckö Castle’s Summer Opera
Kjell Fageus – Mental Training
Leif Karlsson – Pulse – the heartbeat of music!
Lena Johnson – Senior Lecturer in Piano at Örebro University
Liz Upchurch - Pianist, Vocal Coach and Head of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio.
Magnus Jansson – Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Mälardalen University
Nils Spangenberg – Stage Director, CEO and Artistic Director of Vadstena akademin
Olivier Godin – Pianist, Vocal Coach and Professor at the McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Patrik Sörling- Stage Director and Choreographer
Peter Frost – Danish diction
Petter Sundkvist – Professor, Piteå School of Music at the Luleå University of Technology, NEO - Contemporary Music
Philip Zandén – Stage Director and Actor
Rikard Gateau - Artistic Director of Västmanlandsmusiken
Simon Crawford Phillips – Chief Conductor, Västerås Sinfonietta, Concert Pianist
Turid Karlsen – Professor of Vocal Music, College of Music, Hamburg
Thi Tran Tam Ngoc – Concert Pianist, Vietnam National Academy of Music