Hailing from Piteå, the northeast of Sweden, Pauline Hogstrand is an eclectic viola player and composer, based in Copenhagen since 2009. Hogstrand appears as an artist in various constellations; from Baroque ensembles and contemporary sceneries, to free improvising and composing new universes of sound. Her solo works implement composed structures in cyclic and extended forms for varied instrumentations ranging from strings, recorder, pipes, percussive instruments and synthesis, in electroacoustic and acoustic formats. Hogstrand’s music is rich within the use of harmonic and rhythmic texture in suggestive dynamic motions. Her compositions explore the inherent spectral properties of sound and their ability to transcend time and space, body and unitary. In 2020 Pauline Hogstrand released her debut solo album ‘The Enterer’, in collaboration with the Copenhagen based labels No Technique and Forlaget Kornmod. Her second album Áhkká was released in 2023 at Warm Winters Ltd. With the viola as her main instrument, Pauline Hogstrand holds a Master's degree of Performing Arts from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and has subsequently studied a number of advanced courses specialising in baroque interpretation and electroacoustic composition at Malmö Academy of Music.