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Anders Widmark (born November 25, 1963 in Uppsala ) is a Swedish jazz musician (piano, composition).

Act

Widmark, who began playing the piano and improvising on this instrument at the age of seven, graduated from the Royal Stockholm Academy of Music in 1986. As one of the first in Sweden, in 1990 he began to fuse jazz with hip-hop and acid jazz . He has played with jazz musicians such as Bob Brookmeyer , Eddie Harris , Clark Terry , Nils Landgren and Egil Johansen and accompanied the Swedish singers Helen Sjöholm , Louise Hoffsten , Sara Isaksson , and Rebecka Törnqvist . He has also worked with Mikael Rickfors , Orphei Drängar , the Uppsala Choir Allmänna Sången , the Sundsvall Symphony Orchestra and Uppsala Kammarsolister.

Widmark hosted the television show Albums on SVT2 in the fall of 2005 . Widmark has released eleven records under his own name since 1990, including improvisations on psalms and hymns from the 16th century.

Prizes and awards

In 2001 Widmark received a grant from the Swedish authors' association Sveriges kompositörer och textförfattare . In 2003 he and Helen Sjöholm received a Grammis for the album Genom varje andetag . In 2005 he received the Jan Johansson Scholarship. In 2016 he and Allmänna Sången received a Grammi for the album Resonanser .

Discography (selection)

  • 1990 - New Year's Eve sista resa
  • 1993 - Anders Widmark and The Soul Quartet
  • 1994 - Holly Hannah
  • 1995 - Freewheelin
  • 1996 - Anders Widmark
  • 1997 - Psalmer
  • 1997 - Steve Dobrogosz , Bobo Stenson , Anders Widmark, Esbjörn Svensson Solo Flights
  • 2000 - Carmen
  • 2004 - hymn
  • 2006 - Waiting for a Train
  • 2010 - visor
  • 2012 - Dag Hammarskjöld - Vägmärken
  • 2014 - Horses on the Run

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
  2. ↑ Album (Svensk Mediedatabas)
  3. ↑ SKAP - Sveriges kompositörer och textförfattare
  4. ↑ a b Grammis winner 1969-2014 ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ DIG Jazz: Svensk jazz. Priser, scholarship and andra utmärkelser.
  6. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
personal data
SURNAME Widmark, Anders
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala