Susanna Lindeborg, piano,keyboard, composer, After receiving a classical education she came during the 70th into contact with improvised jazz music, which became an important source of inspiration.
What you first think of together with Susanna Lindeborg is her virtuouso play on the piano mixed with electronic instruments, which has been known most of all through the group Mwendo Dawa
, which she is the leader of together with saxophone player
Ove Johansson.
Mwendo Dawa has been succesfully touring in 25 countries in Europe, North and South America, China performing at festivals like Montreux, Northsea and Montreal. The last few years she has been regularly visiting USA and Canada with
Mwendo Dawa. Susanna also writes a lot of the repertoire for the group.
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Susanna Lindeborg, piano,keyboard, composer, After receiving a classical education she came during the 70th into contact with improvised jazz music, which became an important source of inspiration.
What you first think of together with Susanna Lindeborg is her virtuouso play on the piano mixed with electronic instruments, which has been known most of all through the group Mwendo Dawa
, which she is the leader of together with saxophone player
Ove Johansson.
Mwendo Dawa has been succesfully touring in 25 countries in Europe, North and South America, China performing at festivals like Montreux, Northsea and Montreal. The last few years she has been regularly visiting USA and Canada with
Mwendo Dawa. Susanna also writes a lot of the repertoire for the group.
Besides Mwendo Dawa
Susanna Lindeborg toured a great deal with the female jazz group
Salamanders during the beginning of the 80th. Salamander arouse a lot of attention on the European continent and in USA and Susanna came to tour a lot internationally with these two groups.
Today you can also hear her in the Lindeborg/Johansson Duo and she also is performing solo doing a improvisational performance together with her computers doing electro acoustical backgrounds.
Susanna Lindeborg writes her own music and some of this got profiled when she released her first soloCD 1989. A second soloCD, ”Key Paintings” LJ Records LJCD5229, was released 2001 with acoustic piano together with electronic backgrounds. Third soloCD came 2010 titled “Excursions”.
The past few years Susanna has also been touring with the trio Natural Artefacts with performances both in the world of improvisation music as well as the world of electro acoustic music. Natural Artefacts has performed in places like Paris, Primavera en la Habana, Cuba, ICMC 2002, CNMAT, Berkeley University, California, Sonic cirquit X festival i Berklee, Boston, emf New York.
Susanna Lindeborg started playing the piano at the age of 5. She started with a classical training. After moving to Gothenburg she started her education on School of Music, Gothenburg University. There she came into contact with jazz and became a member of Mwendo Dawa
from the start 1974. She became also the leader for this group together with
Ove Johansson.
1974 -1994 she was teaching improvisation of piano and singing at the School of Music, Gothenburg University. Started together with Ove Johansson
the record label
LJ Records 1989 presenting her own and other Scandinavian musicians music. Until now 59 titles.
She was a member of the board of the Swedish Jazz Academy. Has been sitting in reference groups of the Swedish National Council of Cultural Affairs and the Arts Grants Committee. Nominated for the Nordic Music Price 2011. Awarded several art grants over the years.
Gear
Bechstein piano
Kurzweil pc88
Macintosh iBook
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