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The Kalv Festival not only invites musicians and composers to do their own concerts, but we provide space for collaborations, and also impulsive events. This year, cellist Christina Meißner, accordionist Sergei Tchirkov, composer and organist Klaus Lang and musician and writer Magnus Haglund are invited.

One of the most important composers of the post-war period is the Italian Luigi Nono. One of his last works, La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, is perhaps his most poetic and multi-faceted masterpiece.

This year, the Kalv Festival invites Soyuz21 from Zurich for several concerts during the festival. Soyuz21 spends a week in Kalv and performs in no less than three concerts.

This year, the festival ends with a large-scale concert in Kalv’s Kyrka: Varberg chamber choir, organist Johannes Landgren and Gageego! under the direction of conductor Gunno Palmquist!

This year we announce Utopica Futura! Utopica as its etymological, no-place, as an echo of the music we have given space to for so many years…

This year, utopias are invited, the future is suggested. We mix music from the last millennium with the newly written.

This year's Kalv Festival will be inaugurated on Thursday 12 August at 19.00. Four festival days filled with music. You will get to experience special instruments, untamed sounds, hybrid music, stone sounds from Öland and a variety of other concert experiences. The festival has for the third time started with a composition academy where 7…

This year's Kalv Festival will be inaugurated on Thursday, August 12th. And during four festival days, you get to take part in a program packed with in-depth composer portraits of a collection of peculiar and fantastic musicians. The festival opens at 19.00 in two places in Kalv (school and campsite). All visitors are invited to…

The texts written during this year’s workshop in music journalism, that took place during the Kalv festival 2019, are now available at Kokpunkten / Critical Point! Most in Swedish, but some gems in English. The texts can be found here!  

The 16th edition of the Kalv festival will fill this rural jewel with exuberant activity. Last year’s new addition, the composition academy, is given new life while another new initiative is being presented: a workshop in music journalism. The length of the festival is extended from 3 to 4 days, and here a vast international…