“..she has now for more than ten years been played in a row of the foremost concert halls Sweden holds, it is with a music that seems to create its own genre”
Erik Wallrup
Anna-Lena Laurin Classical Composer
Since I was the only one in my family who was into music – it took me quite a long time to realize that I was good in composing and that this was the profession that suited me the very best. So even if my proffession was musican since the early twenties – I wrote my first orchestral work when I was 44 years old! Since then I’ve written many in a very short time – and I have had the fortune to work with really great, great orchestras and artists such as Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Søndergaard, Anders Bergcrantz, Norrlandsoperans Symphony Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen, Richie Beirach, Håkan Hardenberger, Francisca Skoogh, Linda Dahl Laursen, Martin Sturfält, Camerata Nordica, Mats Rondin among many others.
Composer in residence
Camerata Nordica 2014-2016
Appointed Composer #2 of 2015 by
The 37th Annual Jazz Station Awards / The Best Jazz of 2015 in Los Angeles for my symphonic/orchestral work The Painter.
Anders Bergcrantz was appointed Trumpeter #1,
Anders Bergcrantz Quartet Instrumental group #3
All three awards are for our contributions on the CD Anders Bergcrantz Plays The Painter By Anna-Lena Laurin together with Norrlandsoperan symphony orchestra and conductor Mats Rondin.
Lable: Vanguard Music Boulevard
Laurin appointedCOMPOSER OF THE YEAR 2013 Jazzkatten (The Jazz Cat)
Mats Bergström & Göran Söllscher
will perfomr my piece Dual Quest III on tour their tours
September 25th – October 2nd 2016 and April 24th – 30th 2017
Writing for Norweigan baritone
Aleksander Norh and Swedish pianist Mats Jansson
Premiere planned at Nordic Song Festival July 7th 2016
Writing for Composer
Alicia Terzian’s Encuentros Ensemble
with soprano Marta Blanco
Premiere planned in Córdoba, Argentina, 2016.
Performing with
IRIS BERGCRANTZ QUINTET
Victoriateatern, Malmö. November 25th 2015
on her CD-release of Different Universe
Line up:
Iris Bergcrantz vocals, Anders Bergcrantz trumpet, Anna-Lena Laurin piano, Anders Fjeldsted bass, Johan Kolsut drums, Lise Kroner and Rebecca Bergcrantz backing vocals.
Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Mar del Plata, Argentina,
premiere The Bird Phoenix
September 19th 2015
Soloists; Magnus Nilsson bassoon,
Peter Wilgotsson saxophones,
under the baton of Emir Saul.
Tour to Hong Kong, China, Macau
Writing for Terje Tønnesen
and Camerata Nordica. Premiere planned Januray 2017. and Camerata Nordica. Premiere planned Januray 2017.
Writing for Göran Söllscher!
A Deutsche Grammophone Artist.
World premiere with
Camerata Nordica and their leader Terje Tønnesen
15th Hultsfred’s church. 16th The Castle in Kalmar 2015.
Concerto for guitar is also planned with Swedish Chamber Orchestra preliminary December 6th 2017.
Concerto in memoriam premiere November 17th Oskarshamn’s church 2015.
Soloist Brynjar Kolbergsrud, Camerata Nordica & Terje Tønnesen.
Coloratur soprano/cellist Piia Komsi premier The Second Coming
in Hudiksvall at Nordic Festival July 3rd 2015.
Lyrics by William Butler Yeats.
Performing in Berlin at Zig Zag Jazz club with
Anders Bergcrantz
Line up:
Anders Bergcrantz trumpet, Anna-lena Laurin piano, Josh Ginsburg double bass, Micheal Kersting drums.
Celia Linde
Perform my Celia’s Song on her tour in the US. New York, North and South Calolina and Tennessee
World premiere of Quests with
Gitta-Maria Sjöberg, Anna-Maria Helsing and Malmö Operaorkester
at Malmö Arena June 15th 2014.
Other premieres with Gitta-Maria Sjöberg:
June 23rd 2014 premiere of Ser du.. and Quests – version for piano and soprano. June 22rd 2014 performing Gud är inte stum. Nordic Voice festival, Strömsbruk, Hälsingland.
August 2nd 2014 performing Gud är inte stum in Korsholm, Finland together with piano player Christine Bengtsson-Lumio.
March 6 th 2014 Malmö and March 8th 2014 Eslöv premiere of Nattens djupa violoncell and Fantasi and performances of Gud är inte stum.
Tour with LAURIN/BERGCRANTZ PROJECT FEATURIN VICTOR LEWIS OCTOBER 2014
with the world premiere of “In water” commissioned by Swedish Radio
STOCKHOLM FASCHING 14th.
HÄRNÖSAND 15th.
KRISTIANSTAD KONSERTHUSET LILLA SALEN 18th.
YSTAD SCALA 19th.
MALMÖ PALLADIUM 22nd.
HELSINGBORG DUNKERS KULTURHUS 23rd.
Quotes from the Jazzkatten gala performenace where all the winners from 2013 played:
” The band performs a cavalcade of exiting music, including a newly written work commissioned by Swedish Radio P2, and it is one of the evening’s highlights”.
Hedvig Ljungar Tidningenkulturen.se
“kaleidoscopic” …”well composed achoring”
Dan Backman Svenska Dagbladet
From the concert in Malmö
“sensitively portrayed” Alexander Agrell Sydsvenskan.
Laurin appointedCOMPOSER OF THE YEAR
in Swedish Radio’s Prestigious Award Jazzkatten
Kultur/Kulturnytt/Sverige Radio October 15th:
Yesterday was Anna-Lena Laurin appointed Composer of the year on the Swedish jazz’ own event Jazzkatten: She has the ability “to create a succesful crossover between the jazz’s and classical music’s language and the courage to write music from her heart without leeking at prevailing musical trends” according to the motivation of the jury.
Laurin has written several works which have been performed by Swedish symphony orchestras, for example Iphigenia and Persephone. The latest The Painter is also recorded by Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra, with the jazz trumpeter Anders Bergcrantz under the batoon of Mats Rondin, and this is a record which has got good reviews.
Colaboration 2011-2015 with Camerata Nordica with 4 concertos of Laurin
With the kickoff in Concerto for flute strings and harp Camerata Nordica starts a long collaboration with premieres, commissioning, CD recordings and touring within Sweden as well as abroad, with Laurin.
Concerto for flute strings and harp (2009) 21″ World premiere and tour 2011
Concerto in memoriam (2012) 30″ for trumpet and strings: November 10-23 2014
Concerto for violin and strings will be aprox. 25-30″ With violin soloist Terje Tønnesen, concertmaster with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Spring 2015.
Guitar Concerto: (2013) will be aprox. 30″ Commissioned by Göran Söllscher. November 2015.
All works are planned to be recorded on CD and released as a portrait of Laurin.
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“Bergcrantz is one of the top trumpet players in the world today”
Doug Ramsey artsjournal.com
I have refrained from rating “The Painter,” because the orchestral work does not obviously belong in the jazz category.
What genre this belongs to, I really don’t know. Just that it is
music. Enormously important and well worth listening to!”
-Jan Olsson (Dig Jazz)
This she weaves together into an evocative and strikingly beautiful music with trumpeter Anders Bergcrantz as brilliant soloist.
Björn G Stenberg UNT The whole article in Swedish.
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For trumpet and strings
World premiere and tour fall 2014 November 10-23
More info will soon be announced!
World premiere in Italy with tour November 2013
Soprano Gitta-Maria Sjöberg and pianist Linda Dahl Laursen will perform my new piece “Promenade Abyss” to celebrate Danish philosopher Sören Kierkegaards 200 anniversary. At Sören Kiekegaard’s research centre, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 5th 2013 in presence of the Danish Queen Margrethe II. Lyrics Pablo Golborne.
December 2013 with jazz trumpet soloist Anders Bergcrantz
and Rickard Malmsten.
