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Less than a month until the Kalv Festival once again comes alive! All its events can now be found on the website. As a bonus, you can now find a surprise: the Gothenburg ensemble Gageego! make a long-awaited return on the last day of the festival: music spanning from Tibet to Kalv’s own region is…

On 12-15 August 2021, the Kalv Festival will be part of the restart of musical life in Sweden, and a festival postponed from 2020 will finally see the light of day! We welcome German ensemble mosaik, Norwegian Ensemble Temporum, Swedish percussion and performance duo Hidden Mother, American trombone duo Rage Thormbones and last but not…

The Kalv festival 2021 makes itself prepared to welcome audiences from near and far even if we are still struggling with the uncertainty of an ongoing pandemic. What we do know is that this year’s festival takes place 12-15th of August! It is preceded by an international composition academy that gathers participants from all over…

Since the first Kalv Festival, Max Käck and the festival have been inseparable. Max has been the one who during 16 editions tirelessly expanded the meaning of a festival for Contemporary Music in Sweden. However, everything has its time, and with this PM we announce that Max Käck will now instead be festival general in…

Today would have been the day of cleaning out the Kalv festival. Musician, composers and audiences would have gotten their final goodbye at airports and bus stops. However, in Kalv a few writers would have lingered on, editing their text that would have been produced in the frame of the writing academy. On the (new!)…

Today would have been the start of the 2020 Kalv festival. Already this Monday rehearsals and the two academies would have commenced. Instead this year’s cancelled festival will have to wait a year before brightening the rural Kalv in 2021. However, to commemorate the festival we today launch our new web site and graphical profile…

It is with great sadness that we have to announce the cancellation of this year’s Kalv festival, due to the Covid-19/Corona- situation. We plan however to proceed with this year’s festival in 2021. All already announced musicians, as well as those yet to be unveiled, have confirmed their participation for the 2021 festival. During 2020 the…

ACADEMY IN MUSIC JOURNALISM IN KALV AUGUST 5th– 11th 2020 Here is a PDF with all the info! DEADLINE for application: May 15th Course leader: Andreas Engström One of Sweden’s main festivals for international contemporary music, The Kalv Festival, organizes in collaboration with the mobile cultural magazine Kokpunkten/Critical Point and the German music magazine Positionen,…

We are very proud and happy to announce this year’s composition students! Their selection, from 167 candidates, was extremely difficult, and many are the students who we had to decline. However, we couldn’t be more happy about those we finally agreed upon. We welcome the following participants to take part in the Kalv International Composition…

Kalv welcomes RAGE Thormbones! The 2020 Kalv festival is proud to announce its next participating ensemble, the American trombone duo RAGE Thormbones! RAGE Thormbones consists of Weston Olencki and Matt Barbier and they will travel to Kalv not only with their virtuosic and cross-disciplinary sound world, but also with their relentless musical ear which promises…