Sten Hostfalt MUSIC EDUCATOR
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, 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 rules, quite simply don't exist, and 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 live in-concert extensive 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 and director of Sten's NYC Guitar Studio-one of few educational operations anywhere offering microtonal music studies for the standard six-string/twelve-fret guitar.
A former faculty member of 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 currently serves as an applied lessons instructor in classical and jazz guitar, electric bass guitar, piano and electronic/digital music. In addition to holding a Master of Music Degree in Composition, and a Graduate Diploma in Jazz Performance/Jazz Guitar from New England Conservatory, as an honors emissary. Along with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Professional Music/Jazz Guitar, from Berklee College of Music, with honors, and as an outstanding musicianship award recipient.
Professional membership include the National Association for Music Educators NAfME, New York State School Music Association NYSSMA, the Society for Research in Music Education, 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 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. Ever 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. As well as recorded, appeared, and/or collaborated 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 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 inquiries, please email sten[at]stensguitarstudio[dot]com
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, 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 rules, quite simply don't exist, and 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 live in-concert extensive 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 and director of Sten's NYC Guitar Studio-one of few educational operations anywhere offering microtonal music studies for the standard six-string/twelve-fret guitar.
A former faculty member of 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 currently serves as an applied lessons instructor in classical and jazz guitar, electric bass guitar, piano and electronic/digital music. In addition to holding a Master of Music Degree in Composition, and a Graduate Diploma in Jazz Performance/Jazz Guitar from New England Conservatory, as an honors emissary. Along with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Professional Music/Jazz Guitar, from Berklee College of Music, with honors, and as an outstanding musicianship award recipient.
Professional membership include the National Association for Music Educators NAfME, New York State School Music Association NYSSMA, the Society for Research in Music Education, 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 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. Ever 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. As well as recorded, appeared, and/or collaborated 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 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 inquiries, please email sten[at]stensguitarstudio[dot]com
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Sten Hostfalt appears courtesy of Sonus Rex
and Broadcast Music Incorporated, BMI.