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Sten Höstfält 
Composer Guitarist 

Bandleader Producer 
​
Record Label Proprietor 
Educator Theorist
​Research Scholar 



Concert 
Performances

1989-1995



Guillermo Klein's
Big Van 1993-95


◊ 1995 Argentina Tour :
* Jazz Festival at Centro
Cultural San Martin
* La Trastienda
* Colegio Ward Workshop
Buenos Aires, Argentina

◊ Smalls Jazz Club, West 10th
West Village, New York City 
1994-1995 Sunday residency 

◊ 06.04.1995 Knitting Factory,
(Main Space) Leonard St. NYC

◊ The Jazz Gallery, June 1995

◊ Scullers Jazz Club, Boston MA 


November 1994 recording session
Mastersound 
Astoria New York
CD release BIG VAN (Beat Records)

re-release: El Minotauro (Candid/1997)

10.19.94 The Middle East Cafe'
Cambridge MA. (2 sets)




Miscellanous 1989-94
Concerts, Boston MA


Jimmy Giuffre, Clare Fischer,
Joe Maneri, 
Gary Burton,
Peter Erskine, Phil Wilson's 

Berklee Rainbow Band,
Herb Pomeroy's Berklee
Concert 
Jazz Orchestra AKA
The Berklee 'Recording Band'

The NEC Big Band
(
dir. by George Russell)
John Zorn's COBRA
directed by Steve Drury

live at Jordan Hall
concert/worldwide broadcast.

Feat. Jamie Saft, Cuong Vu,
and Nate McBride.


Concerts at: 
Ryles Jazz Club,
The Eastern 
Front,
Middle East Cafe',
Nightstage, BPC

Berklee Performance
Center, and The Willow.


With Monkey Mind
Terry Monaghan-composer,
voice, and guitar

Haze Bergeron-saxophones
Blake Lindberg-drums

Mike Rivard-electric bass
Tim Luntzel-electric bass
Takuya Nakamura-trumpet
and keyboards
Sten Hostfalt-guitar and
guitar synthesizer

Shared live event
with Therapy? (IR)


With Carolina Brandes
ft. Marko Djordjevic-drums
Sean Amou-percussion
Yorai Oron-electric bass
Bruce Arkin-saxophones
Shared event: The Lunachicks (NYC)

3.8.95 Michel Barbaud
Jazz Orchestra, live at
The Berklee Performance
Center Boston, MA
Saxophones: Dave Barraza,
Bill Vint, Eric Gibb, Shinobu
Ishizaki, and Dan Bosshardt. 
Trumpets: Keiichi Hashimoto,
Justin Mullens, Rocco Zahariev,
and Achim Rothe
Trombones: Eliot Mason,
Gary Heckard, and Gary Elic
Rhythm: Pete Rende-piano
Sten Höstfält-guitar
George Donchev-bass 
Jon Hazilla-drums



10.02.92 Toxic Audio, Boston MA
Sten Hostfalt Band recording
​session, initiated by Paul Bley 
Archived at Paul Bley Fonds,
Biblioteque et Archives, Canada
.

Sten Hostfalt-composer, guitar,
and guitar synthesizer
Takuya Nakamura-trumpet,
and electronics
Matthew Garrison-electric bass
Blake Lindberg-drums
Engineer: Eric Tew

Partially released in 2002 as 
'Eternity Check' [g-wOw 1214]
Post-edited by Greg Thompson
at Kampo Audio, New York City



(Unspecified 1990 or 1991 date:)
The Music of Composer/Arranger
Daniel Hamuy - Recording session
including Seamus Blake and Chris
Cheek-tenor saxophones, David
Boato, Keiichi Hashimoto, and
Diego Urcola-trumpets, 
Sten Hostfalt-guitar
Kurt Rosenwinkel-guitar 
(+ probably also) Mercedes
Rossy-piano, Yorai Oron-bass,
and Marc Miralta-drums



1991 One Two Three Four
& More-Jazz from Berklee 

(promotional CD)
 
featuring The Berklee Concert Jazz
Orchestra ('The Recording Band')
​directed by Herb Pomeroy feat.
soloists Seamus Blake-tenor
saxophone, Sten Höstfält-guitar
and guitar synthesizer, and
Mercedes Rossy-piano. Along with
Yorai Oron-bass, and Marc Miralta
-drums. As well as featuring other
groups including Teodross Avery
-tenor saxophone, Hans Glawischnig
-bass. Executive producer and liner
notes by Gary Burton



1989-1991 Sten Höstfält's
Boston Trio and Quartet


Boston, MA concert performances
at WBRS (Brandeis) broadcast, 
Cafe- Rasmus, The Willow, and
at New England Conservatory, 
feat. Don Houge, Seamus Blake,
and Jakob Dinesen-tenor sax,
Kasper Tranberg, Lars Lindvall
-trumpet, and Masa Kamaguchi,
Richard Hammond, Tony DeCicco,
and Matthew Garrison-electric bass, 
Edouard Ferlet-piano, as well as
Anders Mogensen, Kazumi Ikenaga,
Jimmy Weinstein, Jerzy Glod,
​and Cyril Atef-drums
​
​
Photo by Jose' Luis Luna Rocafort
© All Rights Reserved 2014-2025.
XXXV Encontres de Compositors
Sten Hostfalt solo concert 2014,
Pilar i Joan Miro, Palma de Mallorca,
​Islas Baleares, Spain
All Rights Reserved © Sonus Rex 2025.
  • HOME
  • Educator
  • Artist Bio
    • Press
    • Work >
      • Work 1981-2025
      • Sten Hostfalt and Johnny Lapio
      • Sten Hostfalt and Blaise Siwula
      • Downtown NYC Scene
      • NYC Electronic Music Scene
      • Music for Dance
      • Marko Djordjevic's Sveti
      • Guillermo Klein's Big Van
  • Recordings
    • Recordings as a Leader
    • Recordings as a Sideman
    • Other Recordings (Live Concert and Demos)
  • Concerts
  • Publications
    • Fresh Music: Explorations with The Creative Workshop for Musicians, Artists and Teachers
    • Dictionnaire des musiques microtonales (1892-2013)