THE MANDOLIN ACADEMY
We organise concerts and festivals in Sweden and Italy
ENGLISH
Here you can reach us! Call or write to us! We will answer your questions as soon as we can. Sometimes we are on tour and then the answers may take a little longer, but we answer.
SVENSKA
Här når du oss! Ring eller skriv till oss! Vi svarar på dina frågor så fort vi kan. Ibland är vi på turné och då kan
svaren dröja lite längre, men vi svarar.
ITALIANO
Qui puoi raggiungerci! Chiamaci o scrivici! Risponderemo alle tue domande il prima possibile. A volte siamo in tour e poi le risposte possono richiedere un po 'più di tempo, ma rispondiamo.
Artistic director Lars Forslund
MANDOLIN ACADEMY
c/o VIVALDI FESTIVAL
Riddaregatan 6 B
599 31 Ödeshög
S W E D E N
Mobil / Whats up: +46 736 32 87 44
Mail: info@mandolin.academy
Website: www.mandolin.academy
Links to our other festivals:
CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO
has received international recognition as a skilled interpreter of Venetian baroque music. The ensemble has made numerous and extensive tours in Japan, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy and Sweden.
LARS FORSLUND - mandolin
Lars Forslund is Artistic Director of the Vivaldi Festival in Venice and Sweden. With his best friend and mandolin teacher Keith Harris, he also organise concerts and seminars at The Mandolin Academy in Venice. Lars lived in Rome as a child, studied Italian in Florence and lives since 1998 part of the year in Venice.
OUR CONCERTS
has been critically acclaimed and hugely appreciated by standing ovation from an enthusiastic audience.
JAPAN AND THE MANDOLIN
In the eighties and nineties, worked and studied Lars in Kobe in Japan for the Master Yasuo Kuwahara, and also learned the Japanese language. Then they developed a long partnership, in the field of mandolin music, between Japan and Sweden. 1983 played Lars and Yasuo in Das Deutsche Zupforchester under the leadership of Siegfried Beherend and with Takashi Ochi as concertmaster.
MANDOLIN PLAYING IN SWEDISH TV 1982
Lars founded Sweden's first international mandolin festival at Visingsö in Sweden. At the festival he made a recording with the mandolin and guitar orchestra Musica Festiva. Music by Vivaldi from the disc became the theme song of
SVT's Italian language course “Buon giorno Italia”. Most recently Lars was mandolin soloist at the Venice Carnival
2016 and cicerone, along with Ann Lundberg, in a popular television program by SVT.
Lars Forslund - mandolin
“The musicality of Lars Forslund was revealed especially in the Adagio of the Sonatina in C minor for mandolin and harpsichord by Beethoven, which was rendered with subtlety of phrasing and subtle nuances of expression". Letizia Michielon, Il Gazzettino
A review from Venice at the Palazzo Querini:
“Forslund was the master of about every nuance of dynamics and tone you could imagine in the mandolin, as well as some you might not. He could make the instrument sharp and piercing, as well as muted and dark". Michel Miller Berkshire Review
Beautiful 3D films about The Carnival of Venice in the 18th century. Or play along to our soundtracks.
Music by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and others
