Pär Moberg is a senior lecturer in Folk and World music, and a member of SKAP. His main instrument is the saxophone. After growing up with rock music, he was exposed to Swedish folk music in 1994 via groups such as 'Hedningarna' and 'Den Fule'. This inspired him to form his first folk music ensemble, acquire a baritone sax and a hurdy gurdy. After that he never looked back.
In 1997 he got accepted as a student at the Music Teacher Training programme at Malmö Academy of Music, and soon after his graduation in 2003, he started teaching there. During his time as a student, his interest also began to broaden towards klezmer music and music from the Balkans, and with the group Tummel, which he co-founded in 1997, he has toured all over Europe and released several critically acclaimed albums. But he has never let go of his interest in Nordic music, and in groups such as Rand, Grannar, the duo Moberg Lie, and in the Nordic-Indian collaboration Nordic Raga, he has deepened and broadened the understanding of what Swedish folk music can be.
In addition to his interest in different types of musical traditions, Pär has always had a strong social commitment to help newly arrived musicians in Sweden. This has led to projects such as the World Mix Orchestra and the Arabic concert series The Baghdad Sessions, for which he is the artistic director, as well as the Swedish-Ukrainian trio Kvitka Sniv. Recently, Sakhra Quartet, in which Pär together with qanoun, Arabic percussion and harp performs his own compositions inspired by Eastern European and Oriental music, had it’s debut. He is deeply involved in internationalisation issues, and, in addition to regularly going on teacher exchanges to other music academies, he is chairman of Nordtrad, the network for the Nordic and Baltic higher education institutions in folk and world music.
At Malmö Academy of Music Pär is the course director of the Folk and World music programmes where he teaches ensemble, main instrument, theory, and Music and Society. He is also a member of the committee for equality and the environmental committee.
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