THE BIBER PROJECT 

Eva Lindal & Lukas Arvidsson

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Violinist Eva Lindal and organist Lukas Arvidsson form a duo grounded in historically informed performance, yet driven by an unmistakably vivid spirit of exploration. Both musicians are internationally active, recognised for their strong artistic individuality and for their exceptional musicianship—equally at home in the most refined early music repertoire as in the spontaneous language of improvisation.

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At the heart of their current collaboration lies an ambitious and deeply poetic project: to perform Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s complete Rosary (Mystery) Sonatas—one of the most visionary and spiritually charged cycles in the violin literature. Combining the sonatas’ daring scordatura tunings and dramatic expressiveness with the resonant colours of historical organs, Lindal and Arvidsson create performances that are both intimate and monumental, marked by curiosity, risk-taking, and attentive listening.

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Improvisation plays a central role in the duo’s artistic identity. Eva Lindal is widely admired for her expressive freedom, bold musical imagination, and improvisatory authority on the violin, while Lukas Arvidsson is known as an unusually creative and stylistically fluent improviser on organ and early keyboards. Together they approach Biber’s music as living art—where historical knowledge and creative spontaneity illuminate each other.

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The project premiered in Lövstabruk Church, where the duo performed with the celebrated historic Cahman organ—a unique instrument whose sound world offers a rare and powerful link to the late 17th century.​

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With their rare combination of technical brilliance, profound understanding of early musical languages, and fearless improvisational artistry, Eva Lindal and Lukas Arvidsson invite audiences into a world where devotion, drama, and discovery intertwine—revealing the Rosary Sonatas anew, in dialogue with two extraordinary historic organs.