BrassUnit

In the spring of 2025, BrassUnit won the chamber music competition Ung & Lovande. In the fall of 2026, the brass quintet will make its winners' tour through Sweden. BrassUnit was founded in 2020 by five young musicians who met through the YOMA talent program in Vänersborg. Since then, they have established themselves as one of Sweden's most interesting brass quintet, performing at festivals, in concert halls and with chamber music associations in Europe. With roots in southern and western Sweden, the members have been educated at music academies in Lyon, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Hannover, Stockholm and Malmö. BrassUnit often commissions and premieres newly written works in close collaboration with young composers. The ensemble has already received several prestigious awards; in addition to the win in Ung & Lovande also first prize in the brass quintet class at the Nordic Wind Festival 2023. BrassUnit consists of: Oskar Back, trumpet Antoine Podlunsek, trumpet Olof Rolandsson, horn Markus Paulsons Johansson, trombone Johan Lundborg, tuba