Åke Dohlin

Swedish musician, conductor and composer, born September 25, 1921 in Örebro, died in 1997. He was one of Sweden's most productive composers of marching music, several of which have become official band marches. Among his marches can be mentioned Carl XVI Gustaf's parade march which was written to the king's Eriksgata in Södermanland in 1980. In total he composed 57 marches. He began his career as a musician in 1935 as a music student at the Navy's music corps in Stockholm. In 1938 he was accepted as a student in the trombone class at the Royal Conservatory of Music and in 1948 he graduated as music director. Åke Dohlin mainly played the tenor trumpet and trombone. Dohlin was first music director for the music corps at the then Gotland Coastal Artillery Corps (KA 3) 1952–1957 and then became music director for the merged music corps Arméns Musikkår in Visby 1957–1960. After that he was music director in the Military Music Corps in Karlskrona 1960–1971 and after the abolition of military music he became conductor of the regional music department that replaced the military music corps until 1973 when he got the corresponding position at the Regional Music in Strängnäs, finally he was then the Army Music Platoon's first music director 1981. 1982.