Lena Willemark

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Lena Willemark
Lena Willemark
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Nordan (with Ale Möller )
  SE 25th 09/16/1994 (3 weeks)
Agram (with Ale Möller)
  SE 58 09/13/1996 (1 week)
Älvdalens elektriska
  SE 59 09/14/2006 (1 week)
Trees of Light (with Anders Jormin & Karin Nakagawa )
  SE 41 03/27/2015 (1 week)

Lena Willemark (* 1960 in Evertsberg / Dalarna ) is a Swedish folk and jazz musician who performs primarily as a violinist and singer. She also plays the Härjedalspipan , an old folk instrument from the flute family that comes from the Härjedalen region .

Live and act

Willemark got to know the traditional folk music of central Sweden in her childhood. During her studies at the Royal Conservatory in Stockholm in the early 1980s, she engaged in jazz singing. The combination of both styles distinguishes her music.

In 1989 she released her first solo album När Som Gräset Det Vajar , for which she received the Swedish Grammy and the German Music Critics' Prize. Since 1990 she has been working with the Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller , with whom she recorded the album Nordan in 1993 with new interpretations of medieval songs, which had a great impact; it was followed by Agram . In 1994 and 1995 she also appeared in the Swedish folk jazz group enteli with Bengt Berger . Between the spring of 1995 and 1996, she and Ale Möller were part of the musical accompaniment group for the stage adaptation of a novel suite by Sara Lidman that was published between 1977 and 1985 and was performed at the Orion Theater in Stockholm.

On the occasion of Stockholm's nomination as European Capital of Culture in 1998, Lennemark composed the piece Wingodur with Karin Rehnqvist , which she recorded with Bobo Stenson , Palle Danielsson , Lisbeth Diers , Staffan Larson , Mikael Marin and Mats Olofsson . With Ale Möller and Per Gudmundson she played several albums with traditional Swedish tunes in the group Frifot since the 1990s ; the 2003 album Sluring won the Manifesto Prize and was nominated for a Grammis .

In 2003 , in collaboration with Anders Jormin , In Winds, in Light (published under Jormins' name) followed in 2015 in the trio of the two with the Japanese Koto interpreter Karin Nakagawa Trees of Light , the facets of folk, chamber and freely improvised music Association. Swedish radio commissioned Lennemark to perform Blåferd der (2016) for a performance at the Euroradio Folk Festival 2014 . Poems for Orchestra was released in 2019 with Jormin and the Bohuslän Big Band .

Discography (selection)

  • När Som Gräset Det Vajar , solo album, 1989
  • Suède-Norvège , 1993
  • Nordan with Palle Danielsson, Mats Eden , Per Gudmundson , Tina Johansson , Jonas Knutsson , Ale Möller, Bjorn Tollin , 1993
  • Hästen Och Tranan (Das Pferd und Der Kranich) theater soundtrack based on motifs from a novel suite by Sara Lidman with Ale Möller, Roger Tallroth, Ellika Frisell and Olle Steinholz, 1996
  • Agram with Palle Danielsson, Mats Eden, Tina Johansson, Jonas Knutsson, Ale Möller, 1996
  • Frifot Ale Möller Per Gudmundson 1999
  • Windogur with Bobo Stenson, Palle Danielsson, Lisbeth Diers, Staffan Larson, Mikael Marin and Mats Olofsson, 1999
  • Stemmenes skygge with Kirsten Bråten Berg and Marilyn Mazur
  • Älvdalens Elektriska , 2007
  • Manskratt , 2007
  • Lena Willemark / Jonas Knutsson / Mats Oberg : Alla Drommars Sang (2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lena Willemark in the Swedish charts
  2. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
  3. ↑ Frifot
  4. ↑ Trees of Light (Nordic Music)
personal data
SURNAME Willemark, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish folk and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Evertsberg , Dalarna