Hara Alonso is a Stockholm-based pianist, composer and sound artist from Spain.
Her compositional process is grounded in performance and corporeal experience, exploring multisensory practices, memory, space and imagination as instruments for sound-making.
Hara’s music has been showcased in the form of ensemble, solo, sound installation and EAM in festivals such as Mutek (Mexico), Keroxen (Spain) or Sound of Stockholm (Sweden). She has collaborated extensively in the dance scene, working, among others, with the choreographers Pontus Pettersson, Oda Brekke, Martin Sonderkamp and Eleonora dall’Asta.
In the last years she has expanded the timbral and performative possibilities of the piano through extended techniques, somatic practices and signal processing. Her sonic universe, described as a ‘gloomy bubbling electronic power ambient’, navigates between granular landscapes, minimal beats and hypnotic layers with a strong micro lyrical presence.
In 2018 her first EP, ‘Pianoïse’ for piano and electronics, was released by the label Keroxen. In 2021, Eotrax released her acclaimed first solo album ‘Somatic Suspension’. Free jazz album ‘Ritual para acercarse’ came out in 2022 in collaboration with Susana Santos Silva (trumpet), Elsa Bergman (double bass) and Camila Nebbia (sax) by Ramble Records. ‘Notions of hope’, released in pianoandcoffee records, came out in autumn 2023 with 10 meditative piano tracks. ‘Towards the melancholy of a future’ in collaboration with Concepción Huerta was released in 2024 in the label Superpang. Her new album ‘touch-me-not’ came out this spring in the Berlin based label FUU.
Hara works as researcher in the project ‘Bodies as Ears’ at the Stockholm University of the Arts. She has lectured composition, music programming and improvisation at The Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm and the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona.
Frontside Chamber Music Association has existed since 2019 and is largely driven by volunteer efforts, but we are highly dependent on additional financial sponsors and fundings. All contributions are used to engage fantastic musicians, rents of venues and all other things that make the festival a magical experience.
If you are interested in chamber music that goes beyond the ordinary, you should become a member! As a member, you are invited to the association’s annual meeting and participate in electing the board. You can also suggest activities for the association, thereby influencing future festivals and other events we organize. You also have the opportunity to volunteer during the festival, allowing you to enjoy wonderful chamber music without paying an entrance fee.
How do I become a member and support Frontside? Submit your information in the form below and pay the membership fee, and we will register you as a member immediately. Please also indicate which chamber music you love the most. Together with your personal information, this helps us better understand who our members are. How we handle your information can be read under the GDPR section.
You renew your membership every fall term – we’ll remind you! Alternatively, you can purchase a lifetime membership and thus become a permanent member with a one-time fee.
If you join as a new member in the spring, your payment also covers the following year’s membership.
How do I do it and what does it cost? You can pay the membership fee to Bankgiro 5318-7969 or via Swish 123 356 63 95. Always include your name and, if paying via bankgiro, your mobile number.
Welcome as a member!
For requests, feedback, and additional information, fill in your message in the form at the bottom or send an email to info@frontside-festival.se
The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, came into force within the EU on May 25, 2018.
How does Frontside handle its membership register? In our membership register, we store your name, address details, email address, phone number, and birth year. If you leave the association, we will retain your information for a maximum of seven (7) years before deleting it.
Who has access to my information? We register your details digitally in our membership register. Only you (first party) and individuals with trusted roles in the association (second party) have access to your information. No information is shared with third parties.
You can request to see what information we have collected about you at any time.
Validity? By becoming a member of the association, you enter into an agreement regarding which information about you can be stored with us and who has access to this information, as described above. This agreement is valid indefinitely, as long as you are a member of the Frontside Chamber Music Association.
Do I have the right to have my information deleted? According to GDPR, you have the right to have your information deleted, but you will also lose your membership in the association. To request this, send an email to info@frontside-festival.se and ask for your stored information to be deleted.
