Susanna Lindeborg

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.

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.

Together with Ove Johansson you could also hear her in the Elisa Fiorillo 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.

Awards

Several Arts Grants from STIM and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee especially one 2005 for five years from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the latest from STIM 2010. Gothenburg City Art Grant 1983, Arts Grant 2001 from the news magazine Hallandsposten andHalmstad City Art Price 2010. 2011 she was nominated for the big Nordic Council Music Price. 2013 Cultural Price of Region Halland, Sweden.

Gear

Bechstein piano Kurzweil pc88 MacBook Pro Novation Launchkey