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 teaching studio, one of few facilities anywhere offering microtonal music studies for the traditional six-string/twelve-fret guitar, as well as for other instruments. Along with duties as an applied lessons instructor in guitar, 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, and invited lecturer at New World School of The Arts, University of Florida Miami FL, Berklee College of Music, and as a 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.
Having both performed on and co-produced his first official audio release in 1981, Sten Hostfalt is the producer of numerous recordings for his own Sonus Rex label, which over the past 20 years have earned praise from Signal to Noise, All About Jazz, Jazz Review, Cadence, Jazz Now, and Time Out NY. And have appeared as a sideman, featured guitarist, soloist and arranger on recordings for Candid (UK), Beat (Italy), Teichiku (Japan), and Sittel and Four Leaf Records (Sweden) as documented by leading press/media outlets such as Jazz Times Magazine, and All Music. Academic proficiency and credentials as an engineer and teacher of audio recording and production was acquired through studies at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Sweden, and most recently, and currently, at Columbia University's Teachers College.
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. 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, Herb Pomeroy, Bobby Shew, and Rob McConnell. And shared 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.
Teaching since 1977, among the many other schools Sten Hostfalt contribute-have contributed to, are New York Jazz Academy (2009-present), New York City's Office of Continued Education at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, CUNY*, Kingsbridge International High School (as a NYC Board of Education vendor), and First Flight Music School (2007-2015, succeeding ECM recording artist Raoul Björkenheim). And in Sweden, as a full-time faculty of the Cultural Community Schools of Sandviken, and Stockholm, and as an instructor at Skurups Folk High School. For Sten Hostfalt's full artist biography, discography, itinerary, and press-kit please visit www.stenhostfalt.com
* 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.
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 teaching studio, one of few facilities anywhere offering microtonal music studies for the traditional six-string/twelve-fret guitar, as well as for other instruments. Along with duties as an applied lessons instructor in guitar, 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, and invited lecturer at New World School of The Arts, University of Florida Miami FL, Berklee College of Music, and as a 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.
Having both performed on and co-produced his first official audio release in 1981, Sten Hostfalt is the producer of numerous recordings for his own Sonus Rex label, which over the past 20 years have earned praise from Signal to Noise, All About Jazz, Jazz Review, Cadence, Jazz Now, and Time Out NY. And have appeared as a sideman, featured guitarist, soloist and arranger on recordings for Candid (UK), Beat (Italy), Teichiku (Japan), and Sittel and Four Leaf Records (Sweden) as documented by leading press/media outlets such as Jazz Times Magazine, and All Music. Academic proficiency and credentials as an engineer and teacher of audio recording and production was acquired through studies at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Sweden, and most recently, and currently, at Columbia University's Teachers College.
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. 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, Herb Pomeroy, Bobby Shew, and Rob McConnell. And shared 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.
Teaching since 1977, among the many other schools Sten Hostfalt contribute-have contributed to, are New York Jazz Academy (2009-present), New York City's Office of Continued Education at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, CUNY*, Kingsbridge International High School (as a NYC Board of Education vendor), and First Flight Music School (2007-2015, succeeding ECM recording artist Raoul Björkenheim). And in Sweden, as a full-time faculty of the Cultural Community Schools of Sandviken, and Stockholm, and as an instructor at Skurups Folk High School. For Sten Hostfalt's full artist biography, discography, itinerary, and press-kit please visit www.stenhostfalt.com
* 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.
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.