Palette Karin Hellqvist

• Liza Lim (b. 1966): One and the Other:
• 1 Lim: One and the Other: No. 1 04:09
• 2 Lim: One and the Other: No. 2 05:08
• 3 Lim: One and the Other: No. 3 02:51
• Christian Wallumrød (b. 1971), Karin Hellqvist (b. 1983): Eiksmarka Omland:
• 4 Wallumrød, Hellqvist: Eiksmarka Omland: No. 1 02:36
• 5 Wallumrød, Hellqvist: Eiksmarka Omland: No. 2 03:32
• 6 Wallumrød, Hellqvist: Eiksmarka Omland: No. 3 02:40
• 7 Wallumrød, Hellqvist: Eiksmarka Omland: No. 4 02:41
• Christian Wallumrød: Eiksmarka Omland:
• 8 Wallumrød: Eiksmarka Omland: No. 5 02:28
• Jenny Hettne (b. 1977): Susurrant metal, singing rocks:
• 9 Hettne: Susurrant metal, singing rocks 10:42
• Henrik Strindberg (b. 1954): Gradients:
• 10 Strindberg: Gradients: No. 1, Circular bowing 03:22
• 11 Strindberg: Gradients: No. 2, Gestures 03:38
• 12 Strindberg: Gradients: No. 3, Gradients 03:47
• Carola Bauckholt (b. 1959): Solastalgia:
• 13 Bauckholt: Solastalgia 19:08
• Total Runtime 01:06:42

Info for Palette

The violin player Karin Hellqvist says: "The plethora of traits forming a person's musical identity. I sometimes imagine as an artist's palette".

Through this project Hellqvist expands her practice as a performer of contemporary Western art music. By aiming to share the imaginative as well as evaluative processes of composition, new ways of co-creating music is developed together with five artists-composers, as well as in compositions of her own. Along the journey, the concept of the Artistic Palette emerges, a concept comprising the skills and abilities Hellqvist uses in creative collaborative work – abilities connected to her agency and creativity. How is her Artistic Palette active in creative work, and what does it mean to think with the Artistic Palette?

The artistic methods of the project are sprung from the specific forms of collaborative composition it comprises – improvisation, developing technological skills to create musical materials, accessing embodied performance materials and developing cyclical patterns of work. As Hellqvist’s main method of research, auto-ethnographic writing has been closely intertwined with the artistic processes and several publications now lay the foundation for the final reflection.

The project aims to contribute with knowledge about artistic agency and creative collaborative work through the enrichment of practical approaches, as well as to problematize the artistic and social dimensions that are expected to emerge while unleashing an empowered performer's role. The project also aims to illuminate how this new role can benefit the work, process and ecology of the composer-performer relation, thus fuelling the ongoing process of opening up hierarchies and structures within the classical music milieu. In this way, it is hoped that it will provide a link in the current discourse and exploration of performer identity taking place within academia as well as in the wider field of music-making.

Theoretical key influences are musicologist Alan Taylor’s typology of shared work, Lydia Goehr’s concept of Werktreue, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s thinking on embodied knowledge as well as solastalgia, environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht’s neologism for eco-anxiety.

Karin Hellqvist, violin

Karin Hellqvist
Swedish violinist Karin Hellqvist is performing internationally as an interpreter of contemporary music. With profound engagement in the music of today she is a sought after soloist as well as a dedicated chamber musician. Through active collaborations and dialogue with composers her work aims at understanding, examine, realize and contribute to the process of creating new music.

Karin Hellqvist is a member of several forefront ensembles for new music in Scandinavia. With Cikada, Oslo Sinfonietta, neoN, Faint Noise and Duo Hellqvist/Amaral she dedicates her time to commissioning and performing new works as well as championing the established contemporary repertoire. In her solo project she recently commissioned a body of solo works exploring the violin in the company of electronics and various sound objects; paired with flower pots, guitar pedals, street noise, chain saws and bird song.

Regularly invited to renowned international scenes for contemporary music she has performed at festivals as Warsaw Autumn, Wittener Tage, Donaueschinger Tage, Münchener Biennale, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Venezia Biennale, Milano Musica, Ultraschall Berlin, Harvard University, Berliner Philharmonie, Pan Music Festival Seoul and the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt.

Hellqvist's performances have been broadcasted in many countries and she has contributed to several award winning recordings. She is collaborating with Norwegian record label LAWO Classics and her debut album flock was released in October 2019. She was educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Universität der Künste Berlin, the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Royal College of Music in London from where she graduated with an Artist Diploma in Performance in 2011. In 2016 she received the Interpreter's Prize from the Society of Swedish Composers and she holds a five year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. During years 2018-2022 Karin is a PhD research fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.

Booklet for Palette