In Malin Bång’s music, multifaceted urban atmospheres penetrate through compositional structures in a seamless synergy of traditional instruments and everyday found objects, her works revealing themselves as aural field studies of urban modernity.
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Malin Bång is the founding member of Curious Chamber Players and Faint Noise, active both as composer and performer of acoustic objects.

 

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“I am striving for a balance between the idea of the intimate and fragile and the rough and expressive, in musical actions that often have a strong human, physical connection.“

 

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Her curiosity provides fuel for the most vital element of her music, the generation and sustaining of energy, often through movement and intensified friction.

 

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CD releases

splinters of ebullient rebellion is a portrait CD with five of Malin Bång’s orchestral works, released by NEOS. The works included are avgår, pågår, Ripost with contrabass soloist Uli Fussenegger, percussion soloist Jonny Axelsson, splinters of ebullient rebellion and  Irimi. The CD was proclaimed “the art music cd of the year” by the Swedish Radio review panel. 

The chamber music release structures of spruce and light, also by NEOS, contains the works Structures of Molten Light, Jasmonate and Palinode performed by Curious Chamber Players, as well as Arching performed by UmeDuo and Purfling by Karin Hellqvist.

Ongoing works

A new longer work for Norwegian ensemble Cikada, premiere in 2026.

A new work for guitar and orchestra featuring soloist Frederik Munk Larsen in collaboration with the orchestras SWR Orchester, Odense Symphony Orchestra, and ERSO in Tallinn, premieres in 2026.

A new longer work for Ensemble Ascolta with premiere in 2027.

A new semistaged work in collaboration with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, premiere in 2027.

Concert season 25/26

The season starts off with Darmstädter Ferienkurse, where Malin Bång is leading workshops, lectures and individual composition lessons. Ensemble MotoContrario performs both the piano trio Kaolin and the ensemble piece Structures of Molten Light in Festival Contrasti in Trento in August. In September Curious Chamber Players bring Arching to København. In February Malin Bång’s new concerto for guitar and orchestra will be premiered at Eclat Festival in Stuttgart by soloist Frederik Munk Larsen and the SWR Orchestra.