MATS EDÉN
Traditional "Folk" & World music
National Folk Musician ("Riksspelman") since 1979, composer, professor and a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2009, Mats Edén is without doubt one of Sweden's foremost practitioners of folk- and world music. Mats is a highly respected musician worldwide, and besides being an established solo musician he also partakes in a number of configurations - both permanent and temporary. He has toured Europe, USA and India with numerous musicians and groups - including Groupa, Tina Quartey, Ale Möller, Lena Willemark, Ellika Frisell, Gunnel Mauritzson bands amongst others.
Mats was born in 1957 in Södertälje and raised in Värmland in a musical family. His interest in folk music was inherited through his stepfather, Sven Edén, a well known and well acclaimed fiddler. Mats was taught to play the violin by Sigvard Stenberg at Karlstad Municipal Music School in the mid-60's.
Combined with life as a musician, Mats is also active as a composer and teacher. He studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo 1983-1987 and is a member of the Society of Swedish Composers - FST and Swedish Composers of Popular Music (SKAP). In May 2009 Mats Edén was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. Since its inception in 1993, Mats Edén works part-time as a teacher at the folk-pedagogical education programme at the Malmö Academy of Music.
Since 1976 he has held numerous courses and workshops - both in Sweden and abroad. As a guest teacher/lecturer, his visits include the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, The Funen Academy of Music in Odense, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
Sample Repertoire
Groupa
Crane dance trio together with Jonas Simonson and Mattias Perez.
Duo together with Jonas Simonson - "Låtar och berättelser från farbror Blå’s kök".
Duo with Tina Quartey.
Duo with Leif Stinnerbom.
Waltz with me - with Annbjörg Lien, Bruce Molsky and Tristan Clarridge.
Duo with Ellika Frisell.
Duo with Göran Håkansson.
Trio with Sven Ljungberg and Totte Mattsson - "Gubbatrion”.
Trio with Stefan Östersjö and Geir Draugsvold – ”Lydarslått”.
Upcoming:
Collaboration with Stefan Klaverdal and Mattias Rodrick.
Tounge Songs - collaboration between Groupa and HappyNewDog.
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DISCOGRAPHY
Unga Värmlandsspelmän (Caprice) 1977
Lika många fötter i taket som på golvet, Oktober (Amigo) 1978
Höppesving (Amigo) 1980
Av bara farten, Groupa (Amigo) 1983
Vildhonung, Groupa (Amigo) 1985
Utan Sans, Groupa (Amigo) 1988 - Nominated for a Swedish Grammy
Månskratt, Groupa (Amigo) 1990 - Swedish Grammy
Struling, Solo (Amigo) 1992
Imeland, Groupa (Amigo) 1995 - Swedish Grammy
Nordan (ECM) 1996 - Swedish Grammy
Agram, Nordan (ECM) 1997
Läckerbiten, Solo (Amigo) 1998 - Nomiated for a Swedish Grammy
Milvus, Solo (ECM) 1999
Tokpolskan, Ellika Frisell (Giga) 1999
Lavalek, Groupa (Xource) 1999
Avtryck, Solo (Amigo) 2001
Träd, Niss Kerstin Mattsson (Amigo) 2001
Fjalar, Groupa (Xource) 2003
Vägen In, with Tina Quartey (Amigo) 2004
Crane Dance, Jonas Simonson (Nordic Tradition) 2006
Frost, Groupa (Footprint) 2008
TBA Porträtt, CD of "classical work"
Anno 2010, with Leif and Magnus Stinnerbom and Daniel Sandén-Warg (Giga) 2010