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Kina Sellergren leads a very varied musical life from her base in Stockholm. She plays the baroque trumpet in the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and
Theatre Orchestra, the Friedemann Immer Consort and the Stockholm Baroque Orchestra, and the cornett in the early music ensemble Westra Aros Pijpare. She conducts two choirs, a brass band and a string orchestra. Her musical
education was at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the College of Music in Malmö and her teachers have included Urban Eriksson, Jean-Pierre Canihac and Marie Garnier-Marzullo. She writes:
Let me give you a picture of what I am up to in my musical life at the moment. In January my main project was working with an amateur theatre group as a bandleader, trumpet player, singing instructor, arranger
&c. in a show with many different types of music (Grieg, ABBA, jazz standards, Bach, gospel, techno…). Fifteen performances during January and February. At the same time I'm leading my two choirs: the Orlando
Ensemble, working on a Byrd mass at the moment, and my larger choir, singing Fauré and Mendelssohn in its next concert. And I'm conducting my English-style brass band and a small amateur string orchestra. And then,
of course, I play too. For example "La Bohème" at the Folkopera in Stockholm - four performances playing first trumpet without rehearsals - and I've been playing some stage trumpet at the Royal Opera. I get to play a lot on my
baroque trumpet, last week with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, this time conducted by Andrew Parrott. We were playing Bach: Magnificat and Cantata 21. Excellent! |
