Kerstin Frödin - recorderist & oboist

Kerstin Frödin (b. 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an internationally recognized recorder player and oboist (baroque- and classical instruments). She is active as a soloist and chamber musician working with newly-written as well as early music. She earned her soloist's diploma from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm in 1996, studying with Professor Clas Pehrsson. She continued her recorder studies in Paris under Pierre Hamon. Her oboe studies include an exam in baroque oboe and classical oboe under Paolo Grazzi at the Conservatorio di musica E. F. Dall'Abaco in Verona, Italy as well as private studies under Katharina Arfken in Basel.

She has performed at swedish and international festivals such as Festivale d'Ile de France, Festival Oude Muziek, Netherlands, Festival Accademia Bizantina, Grandezze & Meraviglie Modena Italy, Real Academia de Bellas Artes Madrid, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Havanna Kuba as well as Helsingfors Festspel, Nordic Music Days, Stockholm Early Music Festival, Kalv Festival, Båstad Chamber Music Festival and Stockholm New Music, Sweden.

Kerstin has given the first performance of works both as a soloist and chamber musician by amongst others Sven-David Sandström, Kent Olofsson, Madeleine Isaksson and Per Mårtensson. In 2006, she received The Crystal Prize from the Association of Swedish Conducters for her interpretations of contemporary music. Kerstin has also received several scholarships from The Royal Musical Academy. In 2010 she was one of the finalists in the Italian chamber music competition "Premio Nationale delle Arti".

Kerstin has recorded with such labels as BIS, Caprice, Phono Suecia, db-productions and Proprius/Naxos. In addition she has made recordings with Swedish Radio, Swedish Television as well as a number of EBU-recordings.

Kerstin is a member of Ensemble Lipparella a group focusing on performing newly written music for baroque instruments, the italian baroque ensemble Il Gene Barocco and the experimental trio Das Orchester where she performes together with Chrichan Larson, cello and Ivo Nilsson, trombone. She also collaborates with the danish flautist and percussionist Poul Høxbro as well as Harmony of voices, The Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Ensemble Ma, KammarensembleN, Ensemble Ars Nova, Göteborg Baroque, and Rebaroque.

She has also been musically active in the fields of opera, theater and dance. Recent collaborations include "Prayer for Chernobyl" 2000 at Riksteatern, "Gustav Vasa" 2008 at The Royal Dramatic Theater, "À une raison" 2011 at MDT as well as at The Drottningholm Palace Theater, Folkoperan, Strindbergs Intima teater, Confidensen, and The Swedish radio theater.

Kerstin also combines her active concert life with teaching, she has given master classes and lectured at The Royal College of Music, Stockholm, The Malmö Academy of Music as well as The University of Music and performing arts in Vienna. In the summer of 2012 she was invited to play first oboe and to coach the winds at the The Opera Academy of Vadstena's production of Donezetti's opera Enrico di Borgognia.