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Sabina Zweiacker | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 41–42) Rinkaby, Kristianstad Municipality, Sweden |
| Education | Malmö Academy of Music |
| Genres | Opera, classical music, video game music, film music |
| Occupations | Opera singer, concert soloist |
| Instrument | Voice (soprano) |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Website | www |
Sabina Zweiacker (born 1984) is a Swedish soprano. Trained as a classical singer at the Malmö Academy of Music, she has appeared as a soloist with several of the leading orchestras in Scandinavia and is best known internationally as the vocal soloist of the touring orchestral concert series SCORE – Orchestral Game Music.
Early life and education
[edit]Zweiacker was born in 1984 and grew up in Rinkaby, a village in northern Scania in Kristianstad Municipality.[1] She graduated in classical voice from the Malmö Academy of Music in the spring of 2012.[1] While still a student she and the baritone Sebastian Durán were invited by the conductor Patrik Dahlbom to devise and perform their own programme of Mozart arias and duets, sung in Swedish, with the Christianstad Symfoniker and the Christianstad motet choir.[2]
Career
[edit]Concert and opera work
[edit]Zweiacker made her orchestral debut in 2013 in the concert programme JOYSTICK with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra.[1] She has since appeared as a soprano soloist with orchestras including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic, performing seven times with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm.[3]
In November 2014 she created the role of Agnes in Hion om natten, a children's opera commissioned by the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra with music by Christoffer Nobin and a libretto by Henrik Ståhl, staged in the De Geer Hall in Norrköping in a co-production with Östgötateatern.[4][5] Reviewing the premiere for Kultursidan.nu, the critic praised her singing while noting that the work's most dramatic outbursts strained the resources of the young cast.[4] She returned to the role when the production was revived in 2022.[3] The same year as the premiere she received the culture scholarship of the municipality of Kristianstad.[1] In 2017 she was the soprano soloist in Lars-Erik Larsson's Förklädd Gud with the Christianstad Symfoniker in Kristianstad.[6]
Zweiacker has also worked repeatedly with the Wermland Opera in Karlstad.[7]
Video game and film music
[edit]Zweiacker is the regular soprano soloist of SCORE – Orchestral Game Music, a concert programme created by the Swedish producer and presenter Orvar Säfström. She performed the programme with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra in February 2015, where the Norwegian games site Gamer.no described her as a soprano whose vocal presence complemented the orchestra well,[8] and with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Charles Hazlewood at Berwaldhallen the same year; the Berwaldhallen concert was broadcast on SVT2 on 30 January 2016. She returned to the series in subsequent seasons under the conductor Alexander Hanson.[9][10] Her repertoire in the programme includes "I Was Born for This" from Journey, "The Dragonborn Comes" from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, "Lullaby of Woe" from The Witcher and "Snake Eater" from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.[11][12] The recording of Andreas Hedlund's arrangement of "The Dragonborn Comes" featuring Zweiacker has been reported to have passed 30 million views on YouTube.[13]
She has performed the programme abroad with the Oslo Philharmonic, which presented her in songs from Journey and Skyrim in December 2016,[14] and with Finnish orchestras including Oulu Sinfonia at the Oulu Music Festival.[11]
Zweiacker has also collaborated with Säfström on symphonic film music programmes, among them Score, Far and Away and På gott och ont with the Jönköping Sinfonietta, and We Can Be Heroes with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.[13][3]
Discography
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Sabina Zweiacker". Malmö Live Konserthus (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "Drömgiget". Kristianstadsbladet (in Swedish). 17 May 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Sabina Zweiacker". Norrköpings Symfoniorkester (in Swedish). 9 November 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- 1 2 "Udda men bra barnopera om stora frågor". Kultursidan.nu (in Swedish). 25 November 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "Hion om natten – en musikalisk saga" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio P4 Östergötland. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "Pionjär med Nordens symfoniker i ryggen". Kristianstadsbladet (in Swedish). 18 December 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "Sabina Zweiacker". Wermland Opera (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "Anmeldelse: Score – Orchestral Game Music". Gamer.no (in Norwegian). 13 February 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "SCORE – Orchestral game music 2023". Berwaldhallen. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "SCORE – Orchestral Game Music". Berwaldhallen. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- 1 2 "Oulu Music Festival: SCORE – Orchestral Game Music". Oulu Sinfonia. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "Videogame music concerts 'Score' in Sweden". SoundTrackFest. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- 1 2 "På gott och ont". Kulturhuset Spira (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "SCORE − video game music concert". Oslo Philharmonic. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "Christoffer Nobin: Hion om natten – Nilento Records: NILCD1706". Presto Music. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
- ↑ "Hion om natten" (in Swedish). Nilento Studio. Retrieved 21 August 2026.