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PRESS RELEASE-  The Creators Conference -- the first international conference in Sweden arranged by the creators themselves and their professional organisations.

With content as the competitive weapon on the market of communication and culture, we want to create the best possible means for creation in the future.

Coinciding with the release of Magnus Haglund's book on the Swedish avantgarde writer and groundbreaking sound artist Åke Hodell, and the release of Number 3 and 4 of the Swedish Music Information Centre's dvd series on Swedish Sound Art, eight prominent sound artists performed directly on the Djurgården Ferry between the stations Slussen and Gröna Lund in Stockholm on November

Håkan Larsson's string quartet "Now like Then, then

Ale Möller Band and the The Great Nordic Band will offer the audience world and folk music at its best at Womex in Copenhagen on October 28.

Kent Olofsson was awarded a shared second prize for his work "Stalingrad Madonna" (Symphonie II) in the  

The very first prize of the Council of Nordic Composers goes to Robert von Bahr, CEO of the record company BIS. Mr von Bahr is the first recipient of the council's recently instituted prize for the advancement of contemporary Nordic classical, electro accoustic and art music.

Roland Sandberg sums up after more than two and a half decade  as director of the Swedish MIC

This summer, Trigger Creative Conference will offer a great opportunity for the international music industry to connect with the Swedish music business, including the Swedish MIC.

This summer, Stockholm will host the first edition of European Urban Music Days, the new meeting-place for urban music.

On June 1, Stina Westerberg will take over as the new CEO of the Swedish Music Information Centre. She was most recently employed at the Vadstena Academy, where she was appointed CEO in December 2003.

Since 2003, The Swedish Music Information Centre's art music archive has been in the process of being scanned. There are circa 17,000 works, and each year about 300-500 new pieces are deposited. 10, 000 works of music have been scanned, and about 300 new works are scanned each month.

One of Sweden's most respected electronica acts, The Knife, are currently working on an opera together with Danish group Hotel Pro Forma.

Swedish Hall Concerts at the Swedish Church in London