Pauline Hogstrand is a Swedish viola player and composer, based in Copenhagen since 2009. 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. and has been received critically acclaimed.

She is an active member within ensembles Damkapellet and Crush String Collective, and collaborates and performs with various artists in different artistic fields, including Blue Lake, Sofie Birch, Astrid Sonne, Anders Lauge Meldgaard, Johan Carøe, Marie-Louise Andersson and Anders Vestergaard. Together with the female musical collective Damkapellet, she received Carl Nielsen and Anne-Marie Carl Nielsens Talent Prize in 2021 as composer. Crush String Collective was with their debut album Aeriform nominated at Danish Music Awards for the New Jazz Name of the Year 2022.

With the viola as her main instrument, Pauline Hogstrand holds a Master of Performing Arts, at 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.

Pauline Hogstrand has toured and performed concerts in countries such as England, Scotland, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Finland, Latvia and Italy, notably on festivals such as Roskilde Festival (DK), Tinderbox (DK), Frequenz Festival (GER), CPH PIX (DK), Festival of Endless Gratitude (DK), Copenhagen Jazzfestival (DK), Pulsar Festival (DK) and Mendelssohn International Music Festival (Isle of Skye, Scotland). As a classical viola player, Pauline has assisted and been contracted at periods in danish orchestras, including Danish Broadcasting Orchestra, Copenhagen Phil, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Aalborg Symphony Orchestra.