Sten Hostfalt Biography

Anyone who closely follows the current events in Modern Improvised music, Jazz, Progressive and such on New York City's Creative Music scene, known
as one of the world's leading and most innovative. Knows that NYC Guitar Virtuoso, Composer and Bandleader Sten Hostfalt actively works and operates
alongside and among some of today's most original and unique voices in modern music. Labeled Highly Exceptional by Legendary American Music Icon
Jimmy Giuffre. Virtuosic by musical innovator Joe Maneri. Genuinely Innovative and Groundbreaking according to Jazz Review. A Guitar Player Magazine
editor's pick, with current concert events as a bandleader called impressive and intense by Time Out NY and inimitable by Paper Magazine. He is notably
recognized as one of few musicians worldwide to systematically actively explore, incorporate and regularly perform new microtonal music live in concert.

The initial contribution to the creative New York City Music scene was made as a featured soloist and original member of celebrated Argentine composer
Guillermo Klein's pioneering (quote; Eugene Holley Jr., amazon.com) mid-90's ensemble. Appearing on the CD Big Van / El Minotauro (Beat Records 1995
and Candid Records 1997 ) and in weekly always sold-out concerts during the inception of Mitch Borden's Smalls Jazz Club with esteemed contemporaries
Chris Cheek, Seamus Blake, Jeff Ballard, Ingrid Jensen, Mark Turner and Aaron Goldberg. As a part of a circuit that named " Unlike any Other - One of
the better continuing experiments in New York" by Peter Watrous of The New York Times, and Energetic, Frenzied, Passionate, Interesting and Finely
Executed by Jazz Times Magazine. Has been referred to as playing a part in formulating the sound of a new generation and era in Jazz & Improvised Music.

Born 1962 in Lulea, Sweden and transplanted to the U.S.A. through scholarships and awards from New England Conservatory of Music (M.M. Composition,
G.D. Performance) and Berklee College of Music (B.M. honors, Outstanding Musicianship Award). Studies with Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, George Russell
and Joe Maneri. Composition seminars and masterclasses with Contemporary Clasiiscal Masters Toru Takemitsu and Gyorgi Ligeti. And Concert appearances
as a featured soloist with Gary Burton, Peter Erskine and Clare Fischer. All set the pace, inspired and prepared for a career in Modern Innovative Music.

Activity in Europe towards the end of the 90's, with tours and recordings for Four Leaf Clover and Sittel with mainstream Jazz artists Rob McConnell, Bobby Shew
and Deborah Brown, preceded numerous state arts grants awarded for original work as a leader/co-leader. The sub-sequent return to New York City was marked
by Hostfalt's '02 CD-debute as a leader, Eternity Check. Initiated by Jazz Giant Paul Bley and notably featuring one of the very first recordings of electric bass guitar
virtuoso and Down Beat poll-winner Matthew Garrison. And followed by the acclaimed solo CD 29 pieces for the Microtonal Guitar Live at Knitting Factory New York.
A work that using self-invented techniques for interpretation of mentor Joe Maneri's 72-Equal Temperament theory on the standard 6-string/12 fret guitar & electronics.
Has remained to be one of Amazon.com's best selling recordings with music dealing with new pitch systems. As heard continued on the subsequent '06 CD Macroscope.

When not touring, typically heard live weekly in NYC and on the US East Coast, with his own bands, and as a sideman with various creative projects. Sten Hostfalt's work
has been enthusiastically featured worldwide for three decades in leading press including Guitar Player Magazine, Jazz Times, The New York Times, Time Out NY, Jazz Now
All About Jazz, Cadence , All Music Guide, Jazz Review, PM NYC / Paper Magazine, Tomajazz (Spain), Jazz Views (U.K.), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden) and Altrisuoni (Italy).

Over two decades as music educator have brought clinics in South America, U.S.A.and Europe. At some of the world's foremost institutions for modern music. Including
Alma Maters New England Conservatory of Music (M.M. Composition, G.D. Performance, honors, clinican '92) and Berklee College Of Music (B. M. honors, Outstanding
Musicianship Award, clinican '06) - The former credited with creating the World's First Conservatory Program for Jazz Studies. And the latter known as the World's leading
School for Modern Music. And since '01, a faculty member of The Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Sten Hostfalt currently directs and teaches out of his own Manhattan
based multi-faceted creative workshop, NYC Guitar Studio. Notably, one of very few educational facilities in the world today, offering systematic teaching of microtonal music.

29 Pieces For The Microtonal Guitar Live at Knitting Factory New York (g-wOw/2003)

Bobby Shew with The SBB Big Band
30 Years in Business / Live (Four Leaf Clover 1998)

PERFORMANCES/CO-LABS

Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Joe Maneri, George Russell, Gary Burton, Peter Erskine, Clare Fischer, Rob McConnell, Guillermo Klein
Bobby Shew, Matthew Garrison, Takuya Nakamura, Chris Cheek, Mark Turner, Aaron Goldberg, Diego Urcola, Jeff Ballard, Ingrid Jensen,
Chris Speed, Scott Kinsey, Deborah Brown, Seamus Blake, Magali Souriau, Matt Renzi, Matt Pavolka, Jimmy Weinstein, Bruno Raberg,
Tim Luntzel, Tom Beckham, Olivier Ker Ourio, Phil Wilson, Deborah Brown, Melissa Kassel, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Katt Hernandez