About us
Anna Maria Friman (voice) from Gothenburg, Sweden performs with her regular ensembles, project based
chamber music ensembles as well as a soloist with choirs and orchestras. Many of her ensemble engagements include performances of different musical styles, crossing borders between early, folk,
improvisation and contemporary music. With her groups Trio Mediæval, Friman-Ambrosini-Vicens Trio and Alternative History Quartet she has performed throughout Europe, USA (32 states), Mexico,
Canada, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau and Australia. Since 2001 she has recorded with ECM Records and more recently also with the Norwegian label 2L. In 2010 Friman completed a Doctor of
Philosophy in Music at the University of York, UK where she researched the modern performance of medieval music by women. She also taught singing and coached vocal ensembles at the University and
further through the years she has enjoyed giving vocal masterclasses and choir/ensemble workshops at different academic institutions and courses in Sweden, Europe and USA. Friman also plays the
Hardanger fiddle and writes vocal arrangements of folk- and medieval songs, published by Wessmans Musikförlag.
Marco Ambrosini was born in 1964 in Forlì (Italy). After studying violin and composition, he devoted himself to the nyckelharpa, which he discovered in a museum in Trondheim,
Norway in the late 1980s. He is considered one of the pioneers of the nyckelharpa outside Scandinavia and one of the first to trace this instrument back from Swedish folk music to early and to
contemporary music. He teaches at several conservatoires in Europe.
Marco debuted as a soloist and nyckelharpa player in the theatre "Alla Scala" in Milan, in concerts for the Royal Swedish Concert Agency, in the Alte Oper Frankfurt, in the Philharmony in
Cologne, Berlin, Moscow and in the Carnegie Hall of New York. He partcipated together with Carlo Rizzo, Jean-Louis Matinier, Valentin Clastrier and Michael Riessler in numerous concerts and radio
recordings of Jazz and Contemporary music and was chosen by the German radio SWF as newcomer and composer for the New Jazz Meeting 1993.
He has recorded more than 160 CDs and over the last 10 years has been released almost exclusively by SonyClassical, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and ECM.
www.marcoambrosini.eu
Catalina Vicens combines a vibrant international soloist and research career. Having specialized in performing on antique keyboard instruments, she has been invited to play on the oldest playable harpsichord in the world, featured in her latest recording “Il Cembalo di Partenope”; the 15th century gothic organ of St. Andreas in Ostönnen (one of the oldest and best preserved organs in the world, as well as several collections in the UK, Europe and USA. She is also recognized for her work with medieval portative and positive organs, clavisimbalum and clavicytherium. Vicens has been invited as guest teacher, harpsichord, fortepiano, medieval and chamber music in places such as the Longy School of Music Cambridge (USA), Universität der Künste Berlin and the Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen (Germany), the Renaissance Academy in Lunenburg (Canada) and teaches regularly at the Early Music Course at Burg Fürsteneck and the International Portative Organ Days in Germany, which she curates since 2011. In 2016 she served as jury member at the Jurow International Harpsichord Competition.