Daniel Stighäll

About Daniel Stighäll

Daniel Stighäll is specialised in historical trombone models and historical performance practise in medieval, renaissance and baroque music. He has worked with ensembles throughout Europe, such as Göteborg Baroque , Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen, I Fagiolini, Les Traversees Baroque, Capella de la Torre, Weser Renaissance, The Swedish Radio-choir and Servir Antico. He has also worked as producer and cultural entrepreneur in a multitude of contexts and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in musical performance at Luleå University of Technology, in close collaboration between his own ensemble SERIKON, librettist Tuvalisa Rangström and composer Jan Sandström. The research centres around collective creativity when working with historical and contemporary music drama.

As artistic leader of SERIKON, Stighäll creates projects that focus on reviving historical music through improvisation and collaborations with contemporary composers. With SERIKON, Stighäll has produced concerts and collaborations, as well as premiered new compositions commissioned for the ensemble ever since the ensemble was founded in 2009. In 2010 the first CD was released called Along uncharted routes and in 2014 Acqua Alta (click the links in the titles to listen), the latter led to a collaboration with the Swedish radio choir. The same year SERIKON collaborated with folksinger Lena Willemark in Genuint svenskt? and in 2017 Stighäll worked as artistic leader in a collaboration between SERIKON, ensemble Mare Balticum and Swedish actress Cecilia Frode in a production – Från det blå skåpet – by regional concert organisation Musik i Syd, which resulted in a tour in southern Sweden.

Also in 2017 Stighäll produced a series of performances of the madrigal comedy La pazzia senile by Adrian Banchieris from 1598 (see: https://youtu.be/20D7DlTxvCE) as a part of his ongoing doctoral thesis. In September 2018 SERIKON performed with the program “The Travels of St Bridget” at the swedish church music symposium in Uppsala – inspired by the life of St Bridget and her many pilgrimages (see: http://serikon.org/the-travels-of-st-bridget.html) – a program that has some parallels to the artistic collaboration of this application.

For his musical work and research Stighäll has received scholarships from the Stockholm Bach choir (2005), The friends of Drottningholm Court Theatre (2009) as well as the Bernadotte-scholarship (2018).

From autumn 2023 he has the position as head of the classical music and churc music unit at the Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg University.