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Shorted English version from ECM homepage(http://www.ecmrecords.com/Background/Background_166 0.php)"Virtuoso instrumentalist, songwriter and composer Mats Edén is one of the defining figures of the new Swedish folk music.
Edén offers dedication to some of the fiddlers who have preceded him, legends Lejsme Per Larsson, masters of the old school of playing like Torleiv Björgum, and also near-contemporaries like Anders Rosén. Rosén was one of the players who, in the 1970s, revived the tradition of making abundant use of resonating strings. Mats Edén took this concept one step further with the development of a fiddle with five sympathetic strings: he called this instrument the "bordunfiol", or the drone-fiddle.
Värmland's geographical proximity to Norway has encouraged Edén to look over the borders at related traditions.Edén also studied in Norway, taking classes in composition with Lasse Thoresen and Olav Anton Thommessen, gaining the theoretical and practical knowledge that would enable him to establish his own slant on contemporary composition, while making use also of his knowledge of Scandinavian folk tradition."
He is now half time teaching folk music at the Academy of Music in Malmö and half time freelance musician. For more info about the folk music departement at Malmö Academy of Music: http://www.mhm.lu.se/
Struling AMCD 728
Avtryck AMCD 746
Läckerbiten AMCD 733 - nominated to GRAMMY
Niss Kerstin - TRÄD. AMCD 739
Milvus - with Jonas Simonson and The Cikada String Quartet ECM 1610
Ellika Frisell med Sven Ahlbäck och Mats Edén Tokpolska GCD-36
Nordan - with Lena Willmark/Ale Möller ECM 1536 GRAMMY AWARD
Agram - with Lena Willemark/Ale Möller ECM 1610
Vägen In - with Tina Quartey, AMCD 755
Reviews:
www.cdroots.com/amigo-eden-avtryck.html
www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/eden.html
www.cdroots.com/amigo-eden-lackerbiten.html.
www.rootsworld.com/freereed/eden.html
Groupa:
Av bara farten/Vildhonung AMCD 729
Utan sans AMCD 721
MÃ¥nskratt - Groupa with Lena Willemark. GRAMMY AWARD. AMCD 725
Imeland AMCD 730. GRAMMY AWARD
Groupa 15 years. North side. NSD 6010
Lavalek XOUCD 125
Fjalar XOUCD 134
Selection of my work at Swedish Music Information Centre
Scores and parts at: www.mic.stim.se
filed under: Contemporary classical
Pianosolo:
Polska (1995) f pf SMIC
Skugglek (2002) f pf SMIC
String quartet:
Pärlfiskarens dröm (2002) f string quartet or string orchestra SMIC
Stråkkvartett (1986) f string quartet SMIC
Stråkkvartett nr 2 : de fyra temperamenten : en betraktelse över de sunda vätskorna (1997) f string quartet SMIC
Other works for strings/chamber work:
Snurr (2004) f 5 recorders -- 2s, a, t, b SMIC
Symfoni för myror (2005) f picc-fl, fl, ob, cl SMIC
Balloonmusic (2002) f pf, mar, toms, vlc, cb SMIC
Mumma (2005) f guitar & accordeon SMIC
Shame on you (2003) 2tr, trb, tu, 2perc, pf SMIC
Stendroppar (1989) f guitar & perc SMIC
Orchestra:
Sliding doors (2005) f 4ob, 3perc, 4vla, 2vlc, cb SMIC
Allegro för marimba och orkester (2006) f marim & orch -- 1111 2211 00 0 str SMIC
Knaverlek : concerto (1999) f nyckelharpa and orchestra -- 1111 0000 11 1 str SMIC
Record label AMIGO - homepage:www.amigo.se
Membership in FST - Society of Swedish Composers
SKAP - The Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers
Proud father of six kids