Sten Hostfalt
Music Educator
Embodying a documented four decade innovative contribution to music and music education, acclaimed composer, guitarist and bandleader Sten Hostfalt operates his New York City teaching studio, one of few facilities anywhere offering microtonal music studies for the traditional
six-string/twelve-fret guitar. Along with duties as an applied lessons instructor in acoustic and electric guitar, electric bass, piano and electronic music at Columbia University's Teachers College, the oldest, largest and most comprehensive school of education in the United States.
A former faculty member of The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, invited lecturer at New World School of The Arts, University of Florida Miami FL, and Berklee College of Music, and co-lecturer at Colegio Ward and Centro Cultural San Martin Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mr. Hostfalt is the recipient of a Master of Music and Music Education Degree from Columbia University's Teachers College, as well as of a Master of Music Degree in Jazz Composition, and a Graduate Diploma in Jazz Performance / jazz guitar from New England Conservatory, as an honors emissary. In addition to holding a Bachelor of Music Degree in Professional Music, with concentration jazz guitar, from Berklee College of Music, with honors, and as an outstanding musicianship award recipient, and member of the Berklee 'Recording Band' directed by Herb Pomeroy.
Following his recording debut as a performer, featured soloist, composer and co-leader in 1981, and Internationally so in 1994, as a sideman with Argentine composer Guillermo Klein. Sten Hostfalt's recordings as a leader for g-wOw (2000-2002), and Sonus Rex (2006-present), have been called 'among the most riveting explorations of the microtonal world ever recorded' by Signal to Noise, 'shows just how far an instrument can be bent and altered to meet a more experimental, and adventurous need' according to All About Jazz, and deemed 'genuinely innovative-may be considered groundbreaking in the future' by Jazz Review. In addition to favorable features in Cadence, Jazz Now, Time Out NY, and Guitar Player. Recordings as a sideman, featured soloist and arranger include Candid (UK), Beat (Italy), Teichiku (Japan), and Sittel and Four Leaf Records (Sweden), as enthusiastically documented by leading press and media outlets such as Jazz Times and All Music.
Current professional membership include the National Association for Music Educators NAfME, New York State School Music Association NYSSMA, the Society for Research in Music Education, and the American Federation of Musicians AFM, Associated Musicians of Greater New York-Local 802, Guitar Foundation of America, the Audio Engineering Society AES, Jazz Foundation of America, and BMI Broadcast Music Inc.
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 NYU, 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. Mr. Hostfalt's 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 CUNY, The City University of New York.
A longtime New Yorker and US resident, and a naturalized American, 30 years after first arriving in the United States. Sten Hostfalt was born in 1962, in Sweden, where the transformation from autodidact to internationally acclaimed musician began via classical guitar studies, hearing blues legend Big Joe Williams solo live and up-close, and attending a masterclass with Jazz pianist Horace Parlan. Ever since 1994, he has contributed to New York's music scene, alongside contemporaries Guillermo Klein, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Jeff Ballard, Seamus Blake and Aaron Goldberg. As well as recorded, appeared, and/or collaborated with icons of American music Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Joe Maneri, Gary Burton, Peter Erskine, Clare Fischer, Bobby Shew, and Rob McConnell. And shared festival and concert events with James Moody, Ray Brown, Niels-Henning Orsted-Pedersen, Tim Berne, Keith Murray (DEF Squad), MOBY, Woody Herman Big Band, Phil Woods and Tower of Power.
For complete artist biography, discography, itinerary, and press-kit, please visit www.stenhostfalt.com
For inquiries, please email sten[at]stensguitarstudio[dot]com
Music Educator
Embodying a documented four decade innovative contribution to music and music education, acclaimed composer, guitarist and bandleader Sten Hostfalt operates his New York City teaching studio, one of few facilities anywhere offering microtonal music studies for the traditional
six-string/twelve-fret guitar. Along with duties as an applied lessons instructor in acoustic and electric guitar, electric bass, piano and electronic music at Columbia University's Teachers College, the oldest, largest and most comprehensive school of education in the United States.
A former faculty member of The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, invited lecturer at New World School of The Arts, University of Florida Miami FL, and Berklee College of Music, and co-lecturer at Colegio Ward and Centro Cultural San Martin Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mr. Hostfalt is the recipient of a Master of Music and Music Education Degree from Columbia University's Teachers College, as well as of a Master of Music Degree in Jazz Composition, and a Graduate Diploma in Jazz Performance / jazz guitar from New England Conservatory, as an honors emissary. In addition to holding a Bachelor of Music Degree in Professional Music, with concentration jazz guitar, from Berklee College of Music, with honors, and as an outstanding musicianship award recipient, and member of the Berklee 'Recording Band' directed by Herb Pomeroy.
Following his recording debut as a performer, featured soloist, composer and co-leader in 1981, and Internationally so in 1994, as a sideman with Argentine composer Guillermo Klein. Sten Hostfalt's recordings as a leader for g-wOw (2000-2002), and Sonus Rex (2006-present), have been called 'among the most riveting explorations of the microtonal world ever recorded' by Signal to Noise, 'shows just how far an instrument can be bent and altered to meet a more experimental, and adventurous need' according to All About Jazz, and deemed 'genuinely innovative-may be considered groundbreaking in the future' by Jazz Review. In addition to favorable features in Cadence, Jazz Now, Time Out NY, and Guitar Player. Recordings as a sideman, featured soloist and arranger include Candid (UK), Beat (Italy), Teichiku (Japan), and Sittel and Four Leaf Records (Sweden), as enthusiastically documented by leading press and media outlets such as Jazz Times and All Music.
Current professional membership include the National Association for Music Educators NAfME, New York State School Music Association NYSSMA, the Society for Research in Music Education, and the American Federation of Musicians AFM, Associated Musicians of Greater New York-Local 802, Guitar Foundation of America, the Audio Engineering Society AES, Jazz Foundation of America, and BMI Broadcast Music Inc.
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 NYU, 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. Mr. Hostfalt's 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 CUNY, The City University of New York.
A longtime New Yorker and US resident, and a naturalized American, 30 years after first arriving in the United States. Sten Hostfalt was born in 1962, in Sweden, where the transformation from autodidact to internationally acclaimed musician began via classical guitar studies, hearing blues legend Big Joe Williams solo live and up-close, and attending a masterclass with Jazz pianist Horace Parlan. Ever since 1994, he has contributed to New York's music scene, alongside contemporaries Guillermo Klein, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Jeff Ballard, Seamus Blake and Aaron Goldberg. As well as recorded, appeared, and/or collaborated with icons of American music Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Joe Maneri, Gary Burton, Peter Erskine, Clare Fischer, Bobby Shew, and Rob McConnell. And shared festival and concert events with James Moody, Ray Brown, Niels-Henning Orsted-Pedersen, Tim Berne, Keith Murray (DEF Squad), MOBY, Woody Herman Big Band, Phil Woods and Tower of Power.
For complete artist biography, discography, itinerary, and press-kit, please visit www.stenhostfalt.com
For inquiries, please email sten[at]stensguitarstudio[dot]com
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Sten Hostfalt appears courtesy of Sonus Rex
and Broadcast Music Incorporated, BMI.
Sten Hostfalt appears courtesy of Sonus Rex
and Broadcast Music Incorporated, BMI.