Susanna Lindeborg
Susanna Lindeborg | |
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| Born | 18 April 1952 |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Known for | Leader of Mwendo Dawa. |
| Style | Classic |
Susanna Lindeborg (born April 18, 1952, in Halmstad) is a Swedish jazz pianist, flautist and composer, leader of the group Mwendo Dawa. She also was a member of female group the Jazz group Salamander.
Career[edit]
Susanna Lindeborg was born on April 18, 1952 in Halmstad Sweden. After taking classical piano lessons in the early 1970s, Lindeborg discovered jazz, which became an important source of inspiration for her. In 1974, she founded the quintet Mwendo Dawa with saxophonist Ove Johansson. With this group, for which she writes a large part of the repertoire, she went on many world tours and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival. She performed in Europe, Asia, North and South America. By 2018, she had released 21 albums with Mwendo Dawa.[1]
In addition, Lindeborg toured extensively in the early 1980s with the all-female jazz band Salamander, with whom she performed in Europe and the USA. In 1989 she took part in the SWF's New Jazz Meeting. In the same year she released her first solo album Susanna Lindeborg solo. In recent years she has also performed in the Lindeborg/Johansson Duo and then in the trio Natural Artefacts, with which she moved towards electroacoustic improvisational music. Together with Per Anders Nilsson, Merje Kägu and Anton Jonsson, this resulted in the improvisation quartet Natural Artefacts, which released the album The Crux in 2018.[2]
She also gives solo concerts in which she uses computers to create electroacoustic backgrounds. In 2011 she was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize.[3] Since 2012 she has been curating a concert series in her home Region Halland called INES presenting new music.
In 1989 she started the record label LJRecords together with her husband Saxophone player Ove Johansson.[4]
Discography[edit]
- Mwendo Dawa: Basic Lines (Sonet 1978, with Ove Johansson, Ulf Wakenius, Anders Jormin, David Sundby)
- Salamander: Live at Northsea Jazz Festival (Dragon 1981, with Katarina Karlsson, Cecilia Wennerström, Stig Boström, Vanja Holm)
- Salamander: In the Darkest Month (Dragon 1983, with Cecilia Wennerström, Stig Boström, Vanja Holm)
- Key Paintings (LJRecords 2001)
- Excursions (LJRecords 2010)
- Natural Artefacts: California Connection (LJRecords 2014, with Ove Johansson, Per Anders Nilsson)
- Susanna Lindeborg, Ove Johansson, Thomas Fanto, Michael Andersson: Sudden Meeting (LJRecords 2014)
- Natural Artefacts: The Crux (LJRecords 2018)
Awards[edit]
- Gothenburg City Art Grant 1983
- Hallandsposten Arts Grant 2001
- Halmstad City Art Price 2010.[5]
- 2011 nominated for the Nordic Council Music Price[6]
- 2013 Cultural Price of Region Halland, Sweden.[7]
- 2016 Jazzkannan[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "Susanna Lindeborg". lj-records.se. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
- ^ Thomas Millroth (2019-01-28). "Natural Artefacts: The Crux". Orkester Journalen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-02-11.
- ^ Nordic Council Music Prize 2011
- ^ "LJ Records". discogs.com. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
- ^ "Kulturpriset".
- ^ "Nominations 2011 | Nordic cooperation".
- ^ Nyheter, S. V. T. (23 October 2013). "De får årets kulturpris". SVT Nyheter.
- ^ "Susanna Lindeborg – Jazzkannan – 2016 | Svensk Jazz". 9 April 2016.
External links[edit]
- Susanna Lindeborg on the lj-records.se
- Susanna Lindeborg on the AllMusic
- Susanna Lindeborg on the Discogs
- Eintrag (AllAboutJazz)