The Swedish singer Miriam Andersén studied medieval singing, harp, notation and performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. Today she is a sought-after interpreter of medieval music and an expert in Swedish vocal traditions and its roots. Her repertoire encompasses a wide spectrum of genres spanning from medieval and renaissance music to baroque arias, to works by composers such as Eric Satie, John Cage, Steve Reich and David Lang. In her own projects Andersén arranges and reconstructs music and texts and sets Old Norse poetry to music, often in collaboration with scholars of language and literature. Besides her own ensembles Kvinnolåt, Belladonna and The Early Folk Band she works with international ensembles such as Leones, Sarband and Josquin Capella. In 2007 she took part in the first performance of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion in Carnegie Hall with Theatre of Voices and subsequently won a Grammy Award for it in 2010. In Gothenburg she performed the vocal solo part of the creation Noetic by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, which was composed especially for her. In this part Miriam Andersén can now be seen and heard at the Semperoper Dresden