Mats Bergström

Mats Bergström offers taken guitar overall performance into a lot of directions and with such skill, it’s difficult to simply define his profession. He is an extremely effective soloist, chamber participant, accompanist, and arranger, and generally in most of these jobs he provides struck out rather imaginative pathways. In the chamber world he provides performed in duos, trios, and bigger ensembles, and in such uncommon combos as vocalist, dual bass, and electric guitar. He did much accompaniment, especially with vocal soloists like mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman and soprano Annika Skoglund. As an arranger he provides, through Mats Bergström Efficiency Editions, fashioned many renditions for electric guitar and other musical instruments of functions by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Bizet, Grieg, Nielsen, and many more. Normally, his repertory is certainly including music by these, aswell as by modern composers like Reich, Takemitsu, Åke Parmerud, and Anders Hillborg. And Bergström in addition has performed crossover fare by Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Michel Legrand, yet others. Bergström provides documented for such brands as BIS, Naxos, and Wergo. Mats Bergström was created in Gävle, Sweden, in 1961. Elevated in Stockhom, he researched music on the Royal University of Music there, graduating in 1982. He debuted at London’s Wigmore Hall in 1983 even though he experienced realistic success afterward, also appearing on many recordings in the middle-’80s, he chosen further research. From 1990-1992 Bergström got post-graduate research at Juilliard. Thereafter he sometimes made an appearance as soloist in concert, but generally centered on chamber music efficiency and tune accompaniment. His 1995 Areco Music Compact disc, With just a little Help, was a crossover work (functions by Ravel, de Falla, Chick Corea, Gershwin, etc.) that was quite in the nature of chamber cooperation, as it highlighted Christian Bergqvist (violin), Sam Bengtsson (electrical bass electric guitar), Anna Norberg (flute), and many more on various songs. By the change of the brand new hundred years Bergström was a significant international presence, numerous effective recordings and a occupied concert routine. His concert looks with mezzo Malena Ernman led to their first Compact disc, My Love, released in 2004 around the BIS label. In 2006 Bergström was produced a member from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He continued to be busy making several plans of instrumental and vocal items from your traditional repertory. Bergström documented a disk of his plans of Schubert sonatas for the Proprius label this year 2010 that presented Nils-Erik Sparf, on violin and viola, and additional artists.