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The Swedish organist, Joel Bergström, started playing the violin and the piano at young age with Mölndals Kulcurskola. During high school he moved to die USA for two years and studied advanced piano at Juilliard Evening Division, New York, for Dr. Julie Jordan and performed at Carnegie Hall, International Shining Stars.
Joel Bergström graduated as Bachelor of Church Music 2018 and is currently pursuing his Master's degree in organ and related keyboard instruments at the Academy of Musicand Drama at the University of Gothenburg. He studied organ interpretation with Dr. Hans Davidsson and Senior Leccurer Mikael Wahlin, improvisation wich Dr. Karin Nelson, and harpsichord with Dr. Joel Speerstra and Dr. Tilman Skowroneck.. His bachelor project focused an defining and bringing forward a Chromatic Function Analysis Model and how it could support composicion by setcing music to Edith Södergran's poems. The master project addressed how the same theory could make existing composers' harmonic language explicic and incorporate then into one's own improvisations.
Joel Bergström studied music theory in Gothenburg with Dr. Joel Eriksson and Senior Lecturer Dag Hallberg and is now pursuing his studies in music theory at Uppsala University with Dr. Manias Lundberg, Dr. Jonas Lundblad, Dr. Per-Henning Olsson, Dr. Tobias Plebuch, Dr. Fredrica Roos, and Dr. Thomas von \Vachnefeldt.
In addition, Joel Bergström is pursuing his Master of Fine Arts in Music with a specialization in Choral Conducting at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg studving with Dr. Jan Yngwe. He is also Organist and Director of church music in Fägeibergskyrkan, Mölndal. |
