Duo Stemya
About us!
SAWMYA FRISK
- Violin
My name is Sawmya Frisk. I am 37 years old and I´m coming from Borlange, Dalarna in Sweden. I´m married to Stephan, and together we´re "Duo Stemya".
My main instrument is violin and my second instrument is mandola. Folk music is my main musical style but I´m also play classical, jazz, blues, pop, rock and folk songs/ singer- and song writer music. I started to play violin at the age of 4-5, when I got through the Suzuki method. Violin teacher Mira Moszny was my first teacher, who has had great succes with her musicpupils. The folk music has always had a great influence and impact on me. I have combined the both music styles, side by side, and brought the best from the two worlds and brought the classical technique and the freedom of folk music together.
I recieved the scholarship of Pål Olle in the year of 2005, at the most visited and famous folk music festival, Bingsjöstämman, in Dalarna, Sweden. I´m very honored and greatful for have been receiving this scholarship. It is a symbol for managing the very rich tradition of this great folk musician Pål Olle. He was a well known and highly respected folk musician, in Dalarna, Sweden.
Since the year of 2007, I´m a proud member of the folk and world music group Caleido, who´s playing universal world music. Caleido has performed at different festivals and charity events, all around in Sweden.
STEPHAN FRISK
- Organ and piano
My name is Stephan Frisk and I´m 38 years old. I´m coming from the town Borlange in Dalarna, Sweden.
I started to play piano when I was about 9 years old, but had my first teacher, at the Municipal School of Music in Borlange, when I was 12 years old, who amonged other things taught me score reading. I attended the music high school called "Musikkonservatoriet Falun" in the neighboring town Falun, Dalarna, where I had the piano as the main instrument and organ as a second instrument.
In the year of 2005, I was accepted at the church music education in Pitea, Gothenborg and Malmo and to the classical pianist education in Gothenborg and Royal Danish Academy Of Music in Copenhagen. I choosed the pianist education in Copenhagen where I studied for professor Niklas Sivelöv, during the years 2005 to 2009.
I recieved the scholarship of Ida Lützhöft (The music scholarship of the swedish church in Copenhagen), the cultur scholaship of the city of Borlange in Sweden and participated in the 5th Princess Daizy International Chamber Music Interpretation at the castle of Ksiaz in southern Poland. In the year of 2009, I got the scholarship of Karen and Artur Feldthusen´s foundation under a concert with the barytone David Wijkman at the music acedmy of Fyn in Odense, Denmark.
During the year of 2010, I performed the second piano concerto in f minor by Frederich Chopin, with the symphony orchestra of Borlange, Sweden. In the same year, I started at the church music education in Copenhagen. There I have had Hans Fagius, Yuzuru Hiranaka and Hans Davidsson as organ repertoire teachers and professor Bine Bryndorf and Kurt Levorsen as my liturgic organ teachers.
I finished my church music education in the year of 2015, at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, in Copenhagen. I´m now living in Sawmya´s and my hometown Borlänge, in Dalarna county, in Sweden.