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About Micaela Hoppe

Ongoing

Meditation music created in studio software

On Sunday 6 October, Blåslyftet's Youth Orchestra will play my piece Till klarhet for clarinet and wind band during the Windfest 2024 event in Tampere, Finland.
The solo part is written for soprano saxophone, but is played this time on clarinet. Conductor: Åke Mansén-Hillar, More info: Blåslyftet i Finland.

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Meditation music created in studio software

It is in exceptional cases that I write music in studio programs, but during the pandemic it happened. Two results can be heard on Spotify. 

There is another piece "Meditation", but it needs to be completed by violin and solo vocal, which means an extra trip to the recording studio. As this has not yet happened, it is therefore not ready.

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The piece "Red Moon" for French horn and soundtrack is an interesting combination of studio music that complements the French horn. The idea is that the French horn player plays live at a concert to the soundtrack that is heard from the speakers.

"The creative process is what drives me in composing. Being able to be in that process, listening and writing down what I hear is incredibly inspiring!

I can be completely captured by timbres, their shifts, subtle nuances, a tone that changes and the whole the context becomes something else. I am often drawn to contrasts, which mutually reinforce each other, and even the seemingly simple, which also adds depth and meaning with the simplicity in itself. To be in this composing mode is sweet music to me!"

Micaela Hoppe_photo Michael Steinberg
Piano på Gamla meken, Smedjebacken

Briefly about Micaela Hoppe

  • Born in 1965 in Jakobsberg, northwest of Stockholm. Living in Västra Ämtervik (Värmland) since 1997.

  • Autodidact as a composer. Has always written music since a young age.  

  • 2008 chosen Composer of the Year in Bergslagen's Chamber Symphony Orchestra.

  • 2014 The exhibition "Frankel & Hoppe", where Micaela Hoppe and the filmmaker Evelyn Frankel's collaborations were shown.

  • In 2016, the Italian string orchestra I Solisti Veneti together with clarinetist Lorenzo Guzzoni under the direction of Claudio Scimone premiered "Blue mountains shimmer in backlight"  (swe "Blå berg skimrar i motljus"). The piece was chosen out of 140 other pieces by female composers from 26 countries. The occasion was noted, among other things, with a live interview in P2.

  • 2016 The art video installation "Land of the Unknown" was premiered at Värmlands Museum.

  • 2016 Scholarship from Bengt Axelsson's cultural fund, managed by the association Värmlandslitteratur.

  • 2016 - 2019 Micaela Hoppe composes together with the norwegian composer Lars Audun Hadland "Divina Commedia", a piece based on Dante Alighieri's work of the same name.

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