Ellinor & Leonor
With their
fiddle and 5-string cello Ellinor & Leonor are carrying on with the
music that brought them together. The duo brings to life forgotten
musical wonders from the 19th century, sparkling gammaldans tunes, and
they also contribute to the tradition with compositions of their own.
The essence of the “spelmansmusik” is always in focus, revealing the
dancing and melodic heart of each tune with sensibility and style.
The riksspelman Ellinor Fritz and the Belgian cellist Leonor Palazzo
have been in the USA in 2012 and performed in different states from the
Twin Cities and Deerwood, MN to Chicago, IL. They are back this summer
with a longer tour and their first album “Mormors trädgård”. Ellinor
and Leonor started playing as a duo in 2011 but they met during their
studies in Gothenburg at the Academy of Music and Drama. Since then
they have been performing around Sweden, for instance at Delsbostämman,
Rättviks gammelgård, Stockholms royal Palace, Folkmusikkaféet in
Gothenburg, and will be touring in France and Switzerland in May.
Ellinor & Leonor are appreciated both for their concerts and as
dance musicians.
Leonor Palazzo graduated as a classical cellist in Brussels and later
on adopted the Swedish traditional music and baroque music in her skill
set. She performs in different groups including Septentrio, Ensemble
Bradamante and has performed in many European countries, Korea and the
USA.
Ellinor Fritz was born in Hedemora and was awarded the title of
Rikspelman in 2011. After her music studies at the Conservatory in
Falun and the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg she has toured
with folk and world musicians all over Sweden, in Europe and China. She
has also worked with the electronic composer Hans Appelqvist and
performed with modern dance groups. Ellinor has worked as a violin and
music teacher at primary schools in several locations in Dalarna and
she is now a teacher student at the Royal College of Music in
Stockholm. In 2010, Ellinor was awarded the Tällberg foundation
scholarship for young fiddlers from Dalarna, where the purpose is to
travel abroad and interact with the Swedish-American culture in the
USA.
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