Her works have been performed by ensembles such as the Swedish Radio Choir, KammarensembleN, The Swedish Wind Ensemble, the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae, Nordic Fusion 6, Pärlor för svin and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm’s Symphony Orchestra.

Molly Kien is a member of the Swedish Performing Rights Society (STIM) and the Society of Swedish Composers (FST). She has received scholarships from STIM, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and SWEA.

Contact: mhkien@hotmail.com

A concert of original chamber works, together with composer colleague Andrea Tarrodi, will be held in Grünewaldsalen at the Stockholm Concert Hall in the fall of 2011, featuring musicians from the Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

New North American Folk Songs

“New North American Folk Songs” for oboe and piano will be premiered in Portland, Oregon, on April 13th, 2011, at the Old Church by Catherine Lee (oboe) and Lisa Marsh (piano).

trio for mandolin, harp and guitar

Molly Kien’s trio “At a Certain Hour” for mandolin, harp and guitar will be premiered at a lunch concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall on November 12th, 2010, by Valur Pálsson (mandolin), Laura Stephenson (harp) and Mats Bergström (guitar).

skippa helskägg!

134340 Pluto for wind symphony was performed by the Swedish Wind Ensemble under the direction of Christian Lindberg at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm on September 4th, 2010. The concert opened the Wind Ensemble’s 2010-2011 season, which features an equal distribution of works by both female and male composers. Molly Kien also appeared in a film made by the Swedish Wind Ensemble, where she interviewed composers Joan Tower and Thea Musgrave.

nova project

Together with composer colleague Andrea Tarrodi, Molly Kien is working as a composer with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra’s Nova Project.  The project is a collaboration between composers, the orchestra, and children in schools in and around Örebro, Sweden.  Over the course of the 2009-2010 school year, Kien has been helping four school classes write four orchestra pieces, each of which will be performed on a different concert during the Swedish Chamber Orchestra’s regular concert season.

composer of the year

Kien was chosen as the composer of the year by Bergslagen’s Chamber Orchestra.  The commissioned piece, 134340 Pluto for wind orchestra, was premiered at the orchestra’s annual summer course in Grängesberg, Dalarna, under the direction of Leif Karlsson.

plucked from nowhere

Molly Kien’s piece for harp and chamber orchestra, Song of Britomartis, originally written for Laura Stephenson and KammarensembleN, won first prize in the Alvarez Chamber Orchestra’s competition “Plucked from Nowhere” and will be performed next year by the orchestra in London. 

134340 Pluto (2010) for wind symphony

Song of Britomartis (2009) for solo harp and chamber orchestra

Landsendi (2007) for string orchestra

Alle (2006) for symphony orchestra

Nakata gör sin plikt (2005) for wind symphony

nova pieces

Den Frusna Planeten (The Frozen Planet) (2009) for chamber orchestra and school class

Color Room (2010) for chamber orchestra and school class

Mysterious World (2010) for chamber orchestra and school class

choral

jag drack ett mörkt svart vin (for mixed choir, text by Bruno K. Öijer)

Deyr fé, deyja frændr (for mixed choir)

chamber music

At a Certain Hour (2010) for mandolin, harp and guitar

The Magic Drum (2008) for percussion trio

Hildegard’s Dream (2007) for clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, percussion, piano and cello

Flykting (2004) for soprano and mixed ensemble, text by Göran Sonnevi

Weaving (2003) for flute, piano, violin and cello

Sigh (2003) for string quartet

Drei Struwwelpeter Lieder (2001) for soprano, harp and cello

Daddy Longlegs of the Evening (1998) for clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, French horn, viola and cello
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String Quartet No. 1 (1997)

electroacoustic

Vandalia (2008)

Buffalo Gals (2007)
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Character Sketches (2006)
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That Old Shadow (2005) text by Adrian Kien