Swedish viola player Minna Svedberg grew up in a musical family in Stockholm and has established a wide professional network all over Europe, but is now based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
She studied with Lars Anders Tomter at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin and at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Nobuko Imai and Marjolein Dispa. She used to be a permanent member of the European Union Youth Orchestra 2010-2014, and experience that greatly shaped both her musical and professional life.
Minna strongly believes in the community-building power of music and has worked as a teacher of both viola and violin at the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra, El Sistema Stockholm and MusikSak Aarhus.
She held a permanent position in the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, which she left 2023 in order to pursue and develop her freelance career as a chamber musician and curator in Copenhagen, Amsterdam and London.
Minna is a member of the ADAM Quartet, one of the most versatile new string quartets in the Netherlands.
In recent years, the quartet has performed at major Dutch venues and festivals, including Het Concertgebouw, Tivoli Vredenburg, String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam and Birds of Paradise Festival. This season, the ADAM Quartet will perform in the United States, Ireland, England, Poland and the Netherlands.
Besides playing the traditional string quartet repertoire, the quartet enjoys collaborating with contemporary
composers and in this way premieres many new works. Among others, Kika Sprangers, Camiel Jansen and Vinthya Perinpanathan composed music for the quartet.
She also organises and is a board member of Equinox Chamber Music & Dance Festival in Copenhagen.
Equinox has made a commitment to programming a diverse and gender-balanced roster of composers. We celebrate the overlooked, with lesser-known, rediscovered, and newly-written masterpieces. Often, many of the works at our concerts have never been heard in Denmark before.
The festival is also a dance laboratory. Here, dancers and musicians share the stage in new creations, adding touching and magical moments to every concert.
Minna plays a viola made by Johannes Cuypers in den Haag 1766, generously on loan from the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation.