Mats Bergström | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Mats Johan Bergström |
Born | Gävle, Sweden | 7 March 1961
Genres | Chamber music |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
Instrument(s) | guitar |
Years active | 1983–present |
Labels | Naxos |
Website |
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Mats Johan Bergström (7 March 1961) is a Swedish guitarist and composer principally focused in the genre of chamber music. [1]
Borne in Gävle, Sweden, he received his MFA from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm in 1982, and did post-graduate study at the Juilliard School, 1990–92. [1] He made his debut in 1983 at Wigmore Hall in London and has since been a freelance soloist, accompanist and ensemble musician.
Bergström has collaborated with such artists as Mikael Samuelson, Steve Reich, [2] Edda Magnason, Göran Söllscher, [3] and Malena Ernman, [4] among others. He played acoustic guitar on the Douce France album of Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, which won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. [5]