Embodying a documented innovative contribution to music and music education, as a member of the New York City music community since 1994, and Internationally since 1982. Composer, guitarist, bandleader, producer and educator Sten Hostfalt is recognized as a genuinely innovative musician that may be considered groundbreaking (Jazz Review, 2005), who shows just how far an instrument can be bent and altered to meet a more experimental, adventurous need, taking you on a journey to a place where anything is possible (All About Jazz, 2004), and as the creator of one of the most riveting explorations of the microtonal world ever recorded (Signal to Noise, 2005).
Realized through self-invented interpretative techniques to apply mentor Joe Maneri's 72-EDO Virtual Pitch Continuum, and manifested through a three-decade in-concert exploration of the parameter of pitch contributing to the expansion of the vocabulary for the traditional six-string/twelve-fret guitar, and to music of our time. He is the founder of Sten's NYC Guitar Studio-one of few educational operations anywhere offering microtonal music studies for the standard 6-string/12-fret guitar.
A former teacher at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and invited lecturer at New World School of The Arts, University of Florida Miami FL, and Berklee College of Music, co-lecturer at Colegio Ward and Centro Cultural San Martin Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mr. Hostfalt is the recipient of a Masters Degree in Music Education from Columbia University's Teachers College, where he also served as an instructor in guitar, bass, piano and electronic music. In addition to holding a Master of Music Degree in Composition, and a Graduate Diploma in Performance respectively from New England Conservatory, as an honors emissary. Along with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Professional Music, from Berklee College of Music, as an outstanding musicianship award recipient.
As a theorist and researcher in music and music education, Sten Hostfalt's research interests include exploration of the parameter of pitch, expansion of the standard resource, practice and repertoire in improvised music idioms, inter-generational collaborative music interchange and issues of systemic marginalization of the working class in academia.
Through his private studio, and related educational projects, for the past thirty years, Sten Hostfalt has provided instructional assistance to students enrolled at academic institutions including Juilliard School of Music, Columbia University, Rockefeller University, New York University, The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Fiorello LaGuardia High School for The Performing Arts, City University of New York CUNY*, Mannes School of Music, Brown University, Boston University and Berklee College of Music. His students have been accepted into music and performing arts programs at Manhattan School Of Music, Eastman School of Music, The New School for Social Research, SUNY Purchase The State University of New York, University of Michigan School of Music Theatre and Dance, The Special Music School at Kaufman Center NYC, Bard College, The Jazz Academy at Jazz at Lincoln Center NYC, Western Illinois University, and Berklee College of Music. * DISCLAIMER: Sten Hostfalt, Sten's (NYC) Guitar Studio, or Sonus Rex is not affiliated with Queensborough Community College or The City University of New York.
Mr. Hostfalt is a member of unions and professional musician and education trade organizations, the National Association for Music Educators, New York State School Music Association, the Society for Research in Music Education, the American Federation of Musicians, Associated Musicians of Greater New York-Local 802, Guitar Foundation of America, the Audio Engineering Society, Jazz Foundation of America, and BMI, Broadcast Music Inc.
A naturalized American, thirty years after first arriving in the United States. Sten Hostfalt was born in Luleå, Sweden, in 1962, where the transformation from autodidact to internationally acclaimed musician began via classical guitar studies, hearing blues legend Big Joe Williams solo live up-close, and attending a masterclass with Jazz pianist Horace Parlan. Since 1994, he has contributed to the New York and International music scene, alongside contemporaries Guillermo Klein, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Melvin Butler, Jeff Ballard, Seamus Blake, and Aaron Goldberg. And recorded or appeared with mentors icons of American music Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley and Joe Maneri, and masters of Jazz Gary Burton, Peter Erskine, Clare Fischer, Bobby Shew, and Rob McConnell. As well as shared concert and festival events with James Moody, Ray Brown, Niels-Henning Orsted-Pedersen, Keith Murray (DEF Squad), MOBY, Woody Herman Big Band, Phil Woods, and Tower of Power.
For inquiries, please email sten[at]stensguitarstudio[dot]com
Realized through self-invented interpretative techniques to apply mentor Joe Maneri's 72-EDO Virtual Pitch Continuum, and manifested through a three-decade in-concert exploration of the parameter of pitch contributing to the expansion of the vocabulary for the traditional six-string/twelve-fret guitar, and to music of our time. He is the founder of Sten's NYC Guitar Studio-one of few educational operations anywhere offering microtonal music studies for the standard 6-string/12-fret guitar.
A former teacher at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and invited lecturer at New World School of The Arts, University of Florida Miami FL, and Berklee College of Music, co-lecturer at Colegio Ward and Centro Cultural San Martin Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mr. Hostfalt is the recipient of a Masters Degree in Music Education from Columbia University's Teachers College, where he also served as an instructor in guitar, bass, piano and electronic music. In addition to holding a Master of Music Degree in Composition, and a Graduate Diploma in Performance respectively from New England Conservatory, as an honors emissary. Along with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Professional Music, from Berklee College of Music, as an outstanding musicianship award recipient.
As a theorist and researcher in music and music education, Sten Hostfalt's research interests include exploration of the parameter of pitch, expansion of the standard resource, practice and repertoire in improvised music idioms, inter-generational collaborative music interchange and issues of systemic marginalization of the working class in academia.
Through his private studio, and related educational projects, for the past thirty years, Sten Hostfalt has provided instructional assistance to students enrolled at academic institutions including Juilliard School of Music, Columbia University, Rockefeller University, New York University, The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Fiorello LaGuardia High School for The Performing Arts, City University of New York CUNY*, Mannes School of Music, Brown University, Boston University and Berklee College of Music. His students have been accepted into music and performing arts programs at Manhattan School Of Music, Eastman School of Music, The New School for Social Research, SUNY Purchase The State University of New York, University of Michigan School of Music Theatre and Dance, The Special Music School at Kaufman Center NYC, Bard College, The Jazz Academy at Jazz at Lincoln Center NYC, Western Illinois University, and Berklee College of Music. * DISCLAIMER: Sten Hostfalt, Sten's (NYC) Guitar Studio, or Sonus Rex is not affiliated with Queensborough Community College or The City University of New York.
Mr. Hostfalt is a member of unions and professional musician and education trade organizations, the National Association for Music Educators, New York State School Music Association, the Society for Research in Music Education, the American Federation of Musicians, Associated Musicians of Greater New York-Local 802, Guitar Foundation of America, the Audio Engineering Society, Jazz Foundation of America, and BMI, Broadcast Music Inc.
A naturalized American, thirty years after first arriving in the United States. Sten Hostfalt was born in Luleå, Sweden, in 1962, where the transformation from autodidact to internationally acclaimed musician began via classical guitar studies, hearing blues legend Big Joe Williams solo live up-close, and attending a masterclass with Jazz pianist Horace Parlan. Since 1994, he has contributed to the New York and International music scene, alongside contemporaries Guillermo Klein, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Melvin Butler, Jeff Ballard, Seamus Blake, and Aaron Goldberg. And recorded or appeared with mentors icons of American music Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley and Joe Maneri, and masters of Jazz Gary Burton, Peter Erskine, Clare Fischer, Bobby Shew, and Rob McConnell. As well as shared concert and festival events with James Moody, Ray Brown, Niels-Henning Orsted-Pedersen, Keith Murray (DEF Squad), MOBY, Woody Herman Big Band, Phil Woods, and Tower of Power.
For inquiries, please email sten[at]stensguitarstudio[dot]com