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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Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
Chamber Music - Lançado por Mats Bergstrom Musik em 1 de mai. de 2012
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Sei Solo
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Mats Bergström Musik AB em 27 de out. de 2017
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Adelita
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Carpe Diem em 1 de dez. de 2021
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Julsånger utan ord
Christmas Music - Lançado por Naxos Sweden em 24 de out. de 2012
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Água e Vinho
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Mats Bergström Musik AB em 18 de nov. de 2016
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Portfolio
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Mats Bergström Musik AB em 9 de dez. de 2022
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Music for Trio
Mats Bergstrom, Svante Henryson, Magnus Persson
Jazz - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Mats Bergström Musik AB em 12 de jun. de 2015
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Sånger utan ord
Classical - Lançado por Naxos em 1 de jan. de 2001
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The Moon's a Harsh Mistress
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Carpe Diem em 9 de nov. de 2021
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Dadodado
Pop - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Mats Bergström Musik AB em 11 de dez. de 2013
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Schubert Arrangements (Mats Bergstrom - Franz Schubert - Anton Diabelli)
Classical - Lançado por Proprius em 1 de jan. de 2011
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Villancico de Navidad
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Carpe Diem em 15 de nov. de 2022
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Fler sånger utan ord
Pop - Lançado por Naxos Sweden em 18 de set. de 2015
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Electric Counterpoint
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Mats Bergström Musik AB em 29 de jul. de 2022
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Olle Adolphson Musik för gitarr
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Mats Bergström Musik AB em 1 de jun. de 2022
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Musique pour guitare
Classical - Lançado por Naxos em 17 de nov. de 2009
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Classical Guitar for Housework
Enno Voorhorst, Norbert Kraft, Mats Bergstrom, Gérald Garcia, Marc Teicholz
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Special Projects em 30 de ago. de 2011
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Ernman, Malena: Arias, Lieder and Cabaret Songs
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Lançado por BIS em 28 de out. de 2003
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