Trio Hakana

Trio Hakana was formed by Hans Nyman in 2005. Most of the music is written by Nyman. The music is a blend of jazz, klezmer and balkan music. In Trio Hakana he plays acoustic guitars. He has his musical background in classical music and jazz. Hans also composes for and plays bass and accordeon in the Freudenthal Yiddish Big Band and has recorded with Cirrus. He is also playing prepared distorted electrical guitar with trumpet player Mikael Sörensen and drummer Pär Jaktelius. Andreas Westman was born in Stockholm. In 1992 Andreas received scholarships to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. Andreas has since his youth until present time been playing with various musicians from many genres including jazz bands, pop/rock bands, symphony orchestras, big bands and cover/dance bands. His own band Andreas Westman Quartet, includes tenor Robert Nordmark, piano Daniel Karlsson, drums Marcus Nowak. He has been working, live and in studio, with numerous of musicians and artists such as Blender, Da Buzz, Svante Turesson, Putte Wickman, Göran Edman, Kens and Barbie, Nils Landgren, Heads or Tales, Fredrik Kempe, Cirrus and many more. Karl Thorsson has the last 10 years been one of the most in demand classical percussionists in Sweden. He has among others worked with Kroumata and is currently a member of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.