Mats Edén

For more music, check out my You Tube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/maed57.
Shorted English version from ECM homepage(http://www.ecmrecords.com/Background/Background_1660.php)
"Virtuoso instrumentalist, songwriter and composer
Mats Edén is one of the defining figures of the new
Swedish folk music.
Edén offers dedication to some of the fiddlers who have
preceded him, legends Lejsme Per Larsson, masters of the old school of playing like Torleiv Björgum, and also near-contemporaries like Anders Rosén.
Rosén was one of the players who, in the 1970s, revived the tradition of making abundant use of resonating strings. Mats Edén took this concept one step further with the development of a fiddle with five sympathetic strings: he called this instrument the "bordunfiol", or the drone-fiddle.
Värmland's geographical proximity to Norway has encouraged Edén to look over the borders at related traditions.
Edén also studied in Norway, taking classes in composition with Lasse Thoresen and Olav Anton Thommessen, gaining the theoretical and practical knowledge that would enable him to establish his own slant on contemporary composition, while making use also of his knowledge of Scandinavian folk tradition."
I am now half time teaching folk music at the Academy of Music in Malmö and half time freelance musician and composer.
For more info about the folk music departement at Malmö Academy of Music: http://www.mhm.lu.se/
Some of the records
Struling AMCD 728
Avtryck AMCD 746
Läckerbiten AMCD 733 - nominated to GRAMMY
Niss Kerstin - TRÄD. AMCD 739
Milvus - with Jonas Simonson and The Cikada String Quartet ECM 1610
Ellika Frisell
med Sven Ahlbäck och Mats Edén
Tokpolska
GCD-36
Nordan - with Lena Willmark/Ale Möller ECM 1536 GRAMMY AWARD
Agram - with Lena Willemark/Ale Möller ECM 1610
Vägen In - with Tina Quartey, AMCD 755
Selection of my work at Swedish Music Information Centre
Scores and parts at:
www.mic.stim.se
filed under:
Contemporary classical
Member of FST - Society of Swedish Composers
SKAP - The Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.