CHRISTIANHOLMQVIST

As a trained musicologist Christian Holmqvist knows his music history. His music refers to different traits in different epochs in both obvious and subtle ways. He prefers emotional expression to cynical detachment, long melodic lines to fractured textures, and 

harmonic beauty to harsh discords. In this sense, he could perhaps be called a metamodernist.

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In a time when it is assumed that a composer's main task is to generate discussion about complex issues and spell out in exhausting detail what the music is about and how it should be listened to, Holmqvist remains a firm believer in a completely different stance. Although he does not deny that the so called reality influences his art, he invites you to yourself find out how. 

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​Holmqvist acknowledge especially Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Debussy, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Einar Englund and Einojuhani Rautavaara as important to his development as a composer. 

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He is mainly known for his songs for voice and piano. He has composed also string quartets and other chamber music, as well as music for solo piano and orchestral works. 

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