Kyra Spaan’s research focuses on finding known and unknown environmental contaminants in samples from waste water treatment plants, while Gabriel Freitas studies sea spray particles and their role in climate.

Programme Director Elisabet Ljungar, who will work with the nine duos of researchers and composers, is eager to explore the interplay between newly written music and new research on the state of the Baltic Sea even if it may appear at first as a “collision between different planets:”

”For me, this is an exciting and important experiment. I am incredibly curious about how the units affect each other and what the fusion between them can create in the listener,” says Elisabet Ljungar.

The Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab is a new initiative by the Baltic Sea Festival in Sveriges Radio’s concert hall Berwaldhallen, Stockholm University and Voksenåsen Music Academies. Ensembles from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform the musical works during the Baltic Sea Festival 2023 which will take place between 27 August – 2 September.

About the Baltic Sea Festival

The Baltic Sea Festival is organized by Swedish Radio Concert Hall Berwaldhallen and is one of Europe’s leading classical music festivals, featuring top artists, orchestras and conductors. Over the past twenty years, the Festival has served as a meeting place for outstanding concerts and initiatives that contribute to a sustainable Baltic Sea region.