Mats Bergstrom
Mats Bergström has taken guitar performance into so many directions and with such skill, it's a challenge to simply define his career. He is a highly successful soloist, chamber player, accompanist, and arranger, and in most of these roles he has struck out rather imaginative paths. In the chamber realm he has played in duos, trios, and larger ensembles, and in such unusual combinations as vocalist, double bass, and guitar. He has done much accompaniment, particularly with vocal soloists like mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman and soprano Annika Skoglund. As an arranger he has, through Mats Bergström Performance Editions, fashioned numerous renditions for guitar and other instruments of works by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Bizet, Grieg, Nielsen, and many others. Naturally, his repertory is inclusive of music by these, as well as by contemporary composers like Reich, Takemitsu, Åke Parmerud, and Anders Hillborg. And Bergström has also performed crossover fare by Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Michel Legrand, and others. Bergström has recorded for such labels as BIS, Naxos, and Wergo.
Mats Bergström was born in Gävle, Sweden, in 1961. Raised in Stockhom, he studied music at the Royal College of Music there, graduating in 1982. He debuted at London's Wigmore Hall in 1983 and while he experienced reasonable success afterward, even appearing on several recordings in the mid-'80s, he decided on further study. From 1990-1992 Bergström had post-graduate studies at Juilliard. Thereafter he occasionally appeared as soloist in concert, but largely focused on chamber music performance and song accompaniment.
His 1995 Areco Music CD, With a Little Help, was a crossover effort (works by Ravel, de Falla, Chick Corea, Gershwin, etc.) that was quite in the spirit of chamber collaboration, as it featured Christian Bergqvist (violin), Sam Bengtsson (electric bass guitar), Anna Norberg (flute), and many others on various tracks. By the turn of the new century Bergström was a major international presence, with many successful recordings and a busy concert schedule. His concert appearances with mezzo Malena Ernman resulted in their first CD, My Love, issued in 2004 on the BIS label.
In 2006 Bergström was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He remained busy making numerous arrangements of instrumental and vocal pieces from the classical repertory. Bergström recorded a disc of his arrangements of Schubert sonatas for the Proprius label in 2010 that featured Nils-Erik Sparf, on violin and viola, and other artists.
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Julsånger utan ord
Weihnachtsmusik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 24.10.2012
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Villa-Lobos: Mats Bergström & Friends
Mats Bergstrom, Heitor Villa-Lobos
Klassik - Erschienen bei Proprius am 01.01.1989
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Guitar - English Music from the 16th, 17th and 20th Centuries
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music AB am 01.10.1986
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Sei Solo
Mats Bergstrom, Johann Sebastian Bach
Klassik - Erschienen bei Mats Bergstrom Musik am 27.10.2017
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Adelita
Mats Bergstrom, Francisco Tárrega
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carpe Diem (Sweden) am 01.12.2021
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Till rosorna
Mats Rondin, Staffan Scheja, Mats Bergstrom
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Naxos Sweden - Daphne am 24.01.2023
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Fler sånger utan ord
Mats Bergstrom, Georg Riedel, Jonas Holgersson, Göran Söllscher, Andreas Hellkvist
Folk - Erschienen bei Naxos am 18.09.2015
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Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Chamber Music (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Federico Garcia Lorca)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Proprius am 01.01.1994
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Carl
Olle Adolphson, Mats Bergstrom
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carpe Diem (Sweden) am 04.05.2022
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Så skimrande var aldrig havet
Jeanette Kohn, Mats Bergstrom, Jonas Knutsson
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos Sweden - LB am 25.06.2021
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Serenad till Gryningen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos Sweden - Mats Bergström Musik AB am 01.01.1997
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Till rosorna
Mats Rondin, Staffan Scheja, Mats Bergstrom, Serge Rachmaninoff, Wilhelm Peterson-berger, Gabriel Fauré
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Daphne Records am 24.01.2023
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Så skimrande var aldrig havet
Jeanette Kohn, Mats Bergstrom, Jonas Knutsson, Evert Taube
Klassik - Erschienen bei Ladybird Production am 25.06.2021
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Vaggvisor i oredans tid
Jeanette Kohn, Mats Bergstrom, Jonas Knutsson
Hörbücher - Erschienen bei Ladybird Production am 12.11.2021
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Con sentimento
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carpe Diem (Sweden) am 20.04.2021
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A Day in November
Pop - Erschienen bei Carpe Diem (Sweden) am 29.12.2020
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Bagatelle
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carpe Diem (Sweden) am 16.09.2020
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Après un rêve
Annika Skoglund, Mats Bergstrom
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Proprius am 01.01.1989
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El Gato
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carpe Diem (Sweden) am 23.09.2020
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Alfred Nobel In Memoriam
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carpe Diem (Sweden) am 29.03.2021
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