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{{Short description|American composer and organist}} |
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| name = Kali Malone |
| name = Kali Malone |
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| alias = Medicine Bow |
| alias = Medicine Bow |
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| birth_date = 1994 |
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| birth_place = [[Colorado]], U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kalimalone.com/about-us/|title=About|website=kalimalone.com|date=September 15, 2021|access-date=June 6, 2023|archive-date=June 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606181831/https://kalimalone.com/about-us/|url-status=unfit}}</ref> |
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| origin = [[Denver]], Colorado, U.S. |
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| genre = {{Flatlist| |
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| spouse = {{marriage|[[Stephen O'Malley]]|July 29, 2023}} |
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'''Kali Malone''' is an American composer and organist based in [[Stockholm]]. Her works implement unique tuning systems in minimalist form for analog and digital synthesis often combined with acoustic instrumentation.<ref name="tinymixtapes">{{cite news|author=Cookcook|date=October 4, 2018|title=Kali Malone|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/kali-malone|work=[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2019/06/28/kali-malone-the-sacrificial-code/|title=Kali Malone crafts two hours of minimalist drone on The Sacrificial Code|date=June 28, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12101:kali-malone-qsacrificial-codeq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=133|url-status=dead|title=Brainwashed - Kali Malone, "The Sacrificial Code"|date=August 18, 2019|last=D'Amico|first=Anthony|website=[[Brainwashed (website)|Brainwashed]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923150651/http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12101:kali-malone-qsacrificial-codeq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=133|archive-date=September 23, 2019}}</ref> |
'''Kali Malone''' (born 1994) is an American composer and organist based in [[Stockholm]]. Her works implement unique tuning systems in [[minimal music|minimalist]] form for [[analog synthesis|analog]] and [[digital synthesis]] often combined with acoustic instrumentation.<ref name="tinymixtapes">{{cite news|author=Cookcook|date=October 4, 2018|title=Kali Malone|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/kali-malone|work=[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2019/06/28/kali-malone-the-sacrificial-code/|title=Kali Malone crafts two hours of minimalist organ drone on ''The Sacrificial Code''|last=Bruce-Jones|first=Henry|date=June 28, 2019|work=[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]]|access-date=November 16, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12101:kali-malone-qsacrificial-codeq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=133|url-status=dead|title=Brainwashed - Kali Malone, "The Sacrificial Code"|date=August 18, 2019|last=D'Amico|first=Anthony|website=[[Brainwashed (website)|Brainwashed]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923150651/http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12101:kali-malone-qsacrificial-codeq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=133|archive-date=September 23, 2019}}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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In 2016 she co-founded the record label and concert series XKatedral, together with Maria W Horn, in Stockholm. |
In 2016 she co-founded the record label and concert series XKatedral, together with Maria W Horn, in Stockholm. |
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In 2019, she released ''The Sacrificial Code'', featuring nearly two hours of pipe organ compositions, through iDEAL Recordings. The album |
In 2019, she released ''The Sacrificial Code'', featuring nearly two hours of pipe organ compositions, through iDEAL Recordings. The album appeared on year-end lists by ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-experimental-albums-2019/|title=The Best Experimental Albums of 2019|website=Pitchfork|date=December 16, 2019}}</ref> and ''[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine|date=January 2020|title=Releases of the Year|magazine=[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]|issue=431}}</ref> and was awarded "2019 Album of the Year" by Boomkat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boomkat.com/products/the-sacrificial-code|title=Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code|website=Boomkat}}</ref> |
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In 2022, she released ''Living Torch'', a 33-minute piece presented in two movements. It was commissioned by the |
In 2022, she released ''Living Torch'', a 33-minute piece presented in two movements. It was commissioned by the [[Groupe de Recherches Musicales]] (GRM) for its loudspeaker orchestra, the [[Acousmonium]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kali-malone-living-torch/|title=Kali Malone: Living Torch Album Review|last=Currin|first=Grayson Haver|date=July 12, 2022|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref> Jettisoning Malone's signature pipe organ, it features a mélange of acoustic and electronic instruments including the trombone and bass clarinet.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/now-playing/2022/07/08/1110468638/kali-malone-living-torch-ii|title=Kali Malone, 'Living Torch II'|last=Gotrich|first=Lars|date=July 8, 2022|website=[[NPR]]|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref> It was composed by Malone in 11-odd limit [[just intonation]]. The trombone and bass clarinet were recorded in meticulous individual parts to match each computer-generated sound wave. It was assembled by Malone with heavily textured drones as well as the ''boîte à bourdon'' and sounds generated by the [[ARP 2500]] synthesizer owned by [[Éliane Radigue]].<ref name=":0" /> Malone composed and produced the album at the GRM in Paris between 2020 and 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thevinylfactory.com/news/kali-malone-new-album-living-torch/|title=Kali Malone explores electroacoustics on new LP, ''Living Torch''|last=Rugoff|first=Lazlo|date=July 8, 2022|website=[[The Vinyl Factory]]|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref> It is the first collaboration between the GRM and its new label partner Shelter Press, continuing the Portraits GRM record series founded by [[Peter Rehberg]] of Editions MEGO.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=9812&menu=0|title=Kali Malone : Living Torch (CD)|date=July 7, 2022|website=Les presses du réel|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref> The album premiered at the GRM in October 2021, three months after Rehberg's death,<ref name=":0" /> and was released by Portraits GRM on July 7, 2022. |
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In 2023, she released ''Does Spring Hide Its Joy'', a collaboration with [[Sunn O)))]] |
In 2023, she released ''Does Spring Hide Its Joy'', a collaboration with [[Sunn O)))]] guitarist [[Stephen O'Malley]] and British cellist [[Lucy Railton]]. It was composed and recorded between March and May 2020 in the empty concert halls of Berlin Funkhaus and MONOM during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] lockdown. Malone plays tuned sine wave oscillators on the album, joined by O'Malley's electric guitar and Railton's cello.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/32360-kali-malone-album-details-does-spring-hide-its-joy|title=Kali Malone Details New Album, 'Does Spring Hide Its Joy'|last=Eede|first=Christian|date=November 16, 2022|website=[[The Quietus]]|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref> The album consists of an hour-long composition presented in three versions, each a minor variation on the titular piece.<ref name="ra">{{cite web|url=https://ra.co/reviews/35276|title=Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy feat. Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton|last=McTernan|first=Conor|date=January 27, 2023|website=[[Resident Advisor]]|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/32505-kali-malone-does-spring-hide-its-joy-review|title=Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy|last=Poscic|first=Antonio|date=January 17, 2023|website=[[The Quietus]]|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/albums/kali-malone-does-spring-hide-its-joy|title=Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy|last=Creely|first=Joe|date=January 17, 2023|website=[[The Skinny (magazine)|The Skinny]]|access-date=February 10, 2023}}</ref> It was released through O'Malley's Ideologic Organ label on January 20, 2023.<ref name=":1"/> |
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On May 14, 2023, deeming Malone's music "profanatory", activists from the French [[Integralism|integralist]] movement [[Civitas (movement)|Civitas]] forced the cancellation of one of her and O'Malley's concerts at the Saint-Cornély church in [[Carnac]], Brittany, after they blocked the entrance of the church.<ref>{{cite news|date=May 14, 2023|title=À Carnac, des militants Civitas empêchent le concert de Kali Malone|trans-title=In Carnac, Civitas activists prevented the concert of Kali Malone|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/culture/article/a-carnac-des-militants-civitas-empechent-le-concert-de-kali-malone_217829.html|work=[[Le HuffPost]]|language=fr|access-date=May 14, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sherburne |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Sherburne |date=May 17, 2023 |title=When Right-Wing Extremists Crashed the French Drone Festival |url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/when-right-wing-extremists-crashed-the-french-drone-festival/ |access-date=June 6, 2023 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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Malone is married to [[Sunn O)))]] guitarist [[Stephen O'Malley]], which they announced on Instagram in July 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CvppocexsOw/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==|title=JUST MARRIED!!! July 29, 2023|last1=Malone|first1=Kali|last2=O'Malley|first2=Stephen|website=[[Instagram]]|date=August 7, 2023|accessdate=August 24, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Daniel |date=November 2023 |title=Kali Malone Crosses the Abyss with Her Latest Avant-Drone Release, 'All Life Long' |url=https://wjct.org/jme/2023/11/kali-malone/ |access-date=January 7, 2023 |website=WJCT |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Helfand |first=Raphael |date=December 20, 2023 |title=Drone music isn't just one note |url=https://www.thefader.com/2023/12/20/kali-malone-william-basinski-pioneer-works-concert-review |access-date=January 7, 2023 |website=The Fader |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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==Discography== |
==Discography== |
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! scope="row"| ''[[All Life Long]]'' |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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* {{Official website}} |
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* {{cite news|last=Allan|first=Jennifer Lucy|date=January 18, 2023|title='I want an indescribable feeling': composer Kali Malone on her search for the sublime|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/18/i-want-an-indescribable-feeling-composer-kali-malone-on-her-search-for-the-sublime|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}} |
* {{cite news|last=Allan|first=Jennifer Lucy|date=January 18, 2023|title='I want an indescribable feeling': composer Kali Malone on her search for the sublime|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/18/i-want-an-indescribable-feeling-composer-kali-malone-on-her-search-for-the-sublime|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}} |
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Also known as | Medicine Bow |
Born | 1994 Colorado, U.S.[1] |
Origin | Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
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Years active | 2014–present |
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Website | kalimalone |
Kali Malone (born 1994) is an American composer and organist based in Stockholm. Her works implement unique tuning systems in minimalist form for analog and digital synthesis often combined with acoustic instrumentation.[5][6][7]
Early life
[edit]Malone was raised in Denver, Colorado. She moved to Western Massachusetts to study music, but relocated to Stockholm in 2012 after befriending the Swedish avant-garde composer Ellen Arkbro. She studied electroacoustic composition at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm.[5][3]
Career
[edit]In 2016 she co-founded the record label and concert series XKatedral, together with Maria W Horn, in Stockholm.
In 2019, she released The Sacrificial Code, featuring nearly two hours of pipe organ compositions, through iDEAL Recordings. The album appeared on year-end lists by Pitchfork[8] and The Wire,[9] and was awarded "2019 Album of the Year" by Boomkat.[10]
In 2022, she released Living Torch, a 33-minute piece presented in two movements. It was commissioned by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) for its loudspeaker orchestra, the Acousmonium.[11] Jettisoning Malone's signature pipe organ, it features a mélange of acoustic and electronic instruments including the trombone and bass clarinet.[12] It was composed by Malone in 11-odd limit just intonation. The trombone and bass clarinet were recorded in meticulous individual parts to match each computer-generated sound wave. It was assembled by Malone with heavily textured drones as well as the boîte à bourdon and sounds generated by the ARP 2500 synthesizer owned by Éliane Radigue.[11] Malone composed and produced the album at the GRM in Paris between 2020 and 2021.[13] It is the first collaboration between the GRM and its new label partner Shelter Press, continuing the Portraits GRM record series founded by Peter Rehberg of Editions MEGO.[14] The album premiered at the GRM in October 2021, three months after Rehberg's death,[11] and was released by Portraits GRM on July 7, 2022.
In 2023, she released Does Spring Hide Its Joy, a collaboration with Sunn O))) guitarist Stephen O'Malley and British cellist Lucy Railton. It was composed and recorded between March and May 2020 in the empty concert halls of Berlin Funkhaus and MONOM during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Malone plays tuned sine wave oscillators on the album, joined by O'Malley's electric guitar and Railton's cello.[15] The album consists of an hour-long composition presented in three versions, each a minor variation on the titular piece.[2][16][17] It was released through O'Malley's Ideologic Organ label on January 20, 2023.[15]
On May 14, 2023, deeming Malone's music "profanatory", activists from the French integralist movement Civitas forced the cancellation of one of her and O'Malley's concerts at the Saint-Cornély church in Carnac, Brittany, after they blocked the entrance of the church.[18][19]
Personal life
[edit]Malone is married to Sunn O))) guitarist Stephen O'Malley, which they announced on Instagram in July 2023.[20][21][22]
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
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Velocity of Sleep |
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Cast of Mind |
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The Sacrificial Code |
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Living Torch |
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Does Spring Hide Its Joy (with Stephen O'Malley and Lucy Railton) |
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All Life Long |
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Compilation albums
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XKatedral Volume III (with Caterina Barbieri & Ellen Arkbro) |
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Studies for Organ (Rehearsal Demo Tape) |
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EPs
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Tragic Chorus |
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Black Gate |
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Organ Dirges 2016–2017 |
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The Torrid Eye (with Acronym) |
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Other
[edit]With Morbida
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Morbida / Medicine Bow |
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With Taxi Taxi
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Floating Forever |
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With Hästköttskandalen
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Spacegirls |
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With Swap Babies
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Bloody from Digging |
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With Sorrowing Christ
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Sorrowing Christ |
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With Golden Offence Orchestra
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Ode to Pauline Oliveros |
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References
[edit]- ^ "About". kalimalone.com. September 15, 2021. Archived from the original on June 6, 2023. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b McTernan, Conor (January 27, 2023). "Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy feat. Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton". Resident Advisor. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ a b Allan, Jennifer Lucy (January 18, 2023). "'I want an indescribable feeling': composer Kali Malone on her search for the sublime". The Guardian. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ Williger, Jonathan (January 25, 2023). "Kali Malone: Does Spring Hide Its Joy Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ a b Cookcook (October 4, 2018). "Kali Malone". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ Bruce-Jones, Henry (June 28, 2019). "Kali Malone crafts two hours of minimalist organ drone on The Sacrificial Code". Fact. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
- ^ D'Amico, Anthony (August 18, 2019). "Brainwashed - Kali Malone, "The Sacrificial Code"". Brainwashed. Archived from the original on September 23, 2019.
- ^ "The Best Experimental Albums of 2019". Pitchfork. December 16, 2019.
- ^ "Releases of the Year". The Wire. No. 431. January 2020.
- ^ "Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code". Boomkat.
- ^ a b c Currin, Grayson Haver (July 12, 2022). "Kali Malone: Living Torch Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ Gotrich, Lars (July 8, 2022). "Kali Malone, 'Living Torch II'". NPR. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ Rugoff, Lazlo (July 8, 2022). "Kali Malone explores electroacoustics on new LP, Living Torch". The Vinyl Factory. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ "Kali Malone : Living Torch (CD)". Les presses du réel. July 7, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ a b Eede, Christian (November 16, 2022). "Kali Malone Details New Album, 'Does Spring Hide Its Joy'". The Quietus. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ Poscic, Antonio (January 17, 2023). "Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy". The Quietus. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ Creely, Joe (January 17, 2023). "Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy". The Skinny. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ "À Carnac, des militants Civitas empêchent le concert de Kali Malone" [In Carnac, Civitas activists prevented the concert of Kali Malone]. Le HuffPost (in French). May 14, 2023. Retrieved May 14, 2023.
- ^ Sherburne, Philip (May 17, 2023). "When Right-Wing Extremists Crashed the French Drone Festival". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
- ^ Malone, Kali; O'Malley, Stephen (August 7, 2023). "JUST MARRIED!!! July 29, 2023". Instagram. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
- ^ Brown, Daniel (November 2023). "Kali Malone Crosses the Abyss with Her Latest Avant-Drone Release, 'All Life Long'". WJCT. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
- ^ Helfand, Raphael (December 20, 2023). "Drone music isn't just one note". The Fader. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Allan, Jennifer Lucy (January 18, 2023). "'I want an indescribable feeling': composer Kali Malone on her search for the sublime". The Guardian.
- 1994 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American classical composers
- American composers
- American expatriates in Sweden
- American organists
- American women classical composers
- American women in electronic music
- American women organists
- Composers for pipe organ
- Electroacoustic music composers
- Minimalist composers
- Musicians from Denver
- Musicians from Stockholm
- Royal College of Music, Stockholm alumni