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Martin Tingvall

Martin Tingvall was born in 1974 in Schonen, a province in southern Sweden. After attending a high school for the performing arts his studies began at Skurups Folkhögskola, a Swedish form of community college, then he went on to study jazz piano, composition and improvisation at the Malmö Academy of Music. In between he completed a semester abroad in the Netherlands at the Academy of Music of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen. In 1999 Martin Tingvall performed a 'final exam' concert to graduate from the Malmö Academy of Music. Shortly afterward he moved to Hamburg, Germany. Since then he has worked together with many well-known recording artists in his capacities as musician and songwriter in a wide variety of music genres: for instance with Udo Lindenberg, Gunther Gabriel and Inga Rumpf, to name only a few.

In 2003 Martin Tingvall founded the Tingvall Trio together with Omar Rodriguez Calvo on bass and Jürgen Spiegel on drums. Since 2006 six studio albums and one live album by the trio have been released on SKIP Records, a label based in Hamburg. Martin Tingvall has composed all of the pieces for the Tingvall Trio until now. Though increasingly well known on a national scale, their activities are not limited to Germany: The trio has received three ECHO Awards and meanwhile established itself successfully on the European Jazz scene.

In 2012 Martin Tingvall released “En ny dag”, his first solo piano album. Three years later he has released the second solo album entitled “Distance”. Alongside compositions for solo piano and the Tingvall Trio, Martin Tingvall also writes songs for other artists, movie soundtracks, theatre and other projects.

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Album Review

Tingvall Trio: Birds

Read "Birds" reviewed by Neil Duggan


There seems to be a strong desire to place music into a defined category: swamp blues, emo rap, indie-folk etc. Sometimes this can be useful, but occasionally an artist comes along who can blur those boundaries and be successful in many areas. One example would be Ludovico Einaudi, who has opened up classical music to many, but struggles to find total acceptance within the classical music world, despite, at the time of writing, having over a million downloads a day. ...

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Live Review

Tingvall Trio at eastPLUGGED

Read "Tingvall Trio at eastPLUGGED" reviewed by Phillip Woolever


Tingvall Trio Peace Church east PLUGGED Series Ratingen, Germany August 27, 2021 Even during a fully realized concert season, this rousing show by the Tingvall Trio would be a European circuit highlight. Coming as it did in these times of performance cancellations and postponements, the hundred minute tour de force arrived like musical manna from a benevolent jazz deity. Since the location was a church in the Dusseldorf suburbs ...

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Birds

Skip Records GmbH
2023

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En ny dag

Skip Records
2013

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In Concert

Skip Records
2013

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En Ny Dag

Artists Own
2012

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Vägen

Skip Records
2012

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Vattensaga

Skip Records
2010

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