Sten Hostfalt Guitarist Composer Producer Educator
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    • 29 Pieces for the Microtonal Guitar
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    • Sten Hostfalt and Johnny Lapio
    • Sten Hostfalt and Blaise Siwula
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    • NYC Electronic Music Scene
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Sten
​Höstfält

Composer Guitarist Producer Educator

Sten Hostfalt is a leading innovative guitarist / composer working on the New York music scene today. He performs with some of the most original, and unique
voices in modern music and has been called highly exceptional by legendary
 American music icon Jimmy Giuffre and 
virtuosic by musical innovator Joe Maneri 
Jon Damian, Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative ​Workshop Ensemble, for Musicians, Artists, Educators.

 Hostfalt (Sten). Guitariste de jazz et improvisateur américain. Sten Hostfalt emploie les micro-intervalles a la manière de Joe Maneri depuis 1992. Il a enregistré plusieurs
CDs sur son propre label Sonus Rex. Enregistrements. 29 Pieces for the Microtonal Guitar Live at Knitting Factory (Sonus Rex, 2003).
Macroscope (Sonus Rex, 2006). 
Dictionnaire de musiques microtonales 1892-2013 (Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée), Jedrzejewski, Franck,  L'Harmattan (France), 2014.
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Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Sten Hostfalt's live solo recording
29 Pieces for the Microtonal Guitar Live at Knitting Factory New York 

29 Pieces is among the most riveting explorations of the microtonal world ever recorded  SIGNAL TO NOISE 
Sten Hostfalt takes you on a journey to a place where rules simply don't exist, and everything is possible ALL ABOUT JAZZ
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A genuinely innovative approach. 29 Pieces may be considered groundbreaking work JAZZ REVIEW

​Sten Hostfalt is a Sonus Rex recording artist
and an affiliate of BMI, Broadcast Music Inc.
AFM, The American Federation of Musicians
Local 802, Associated Musicians of Greater New York.
NAfME National Association for Music Educators,
NYSSMA New York State School Music Association, 
MEANYC Music Educators Association of New York City
The Society for Research in Music Education,  
SMT, The Society for Music Theory
AES ​the Audio Engineering Society, 
GFA, the Guitar Foundation of America,
and JFA, Jazz Foundation of America.  
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© Sonus Rex 2022
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  • HOME
  • Biography
  • Concerts
    • Live Archive 1981-2022
    • Transformations Solo Concert Work for XXXV Encontre de Compositors at Pilar i Joan Miro' Palma de Mallorca, Spain
    • Dimensional States: Large Microtonal Ensemble Work
    • 29 Pieces for the Microtonal Guitar
  • Recordings
    • Recordings as a Leader
    • Recordings as a Sideman
    • Unofficial Recordings
  • Work
    • Work 1981-2021
    • Sten Hostfalt and Johnny Lapio
    • Sten Hostfalt and Blaise Siwula
    • Downtown NYC Scene
    • NYC Electronic Music Scene
    • Music for Dance
    • Marko Djordjevic's Sveti
  • Press
    • Press Clips 1986-2018
    • Signal To Noise
    • Jazz Review
    • All About Jazz
    • Cadence
    • Jazz Now
    • Guitar Player Magazine
    • City Guide NY
    • AM New York
    • Fresh Music
    • Fundacio Joan Miro'
  • Education
  • Sonus Rex