Lars Andersson (18)

Swedish drummer and Director of Education at Musikhögskolan I Malmö, born on April 28, 1965 in Simrishamn, Skåne. Since the beginning of his professional drumming career in the 1990s, Andersson has toured in Scandinavia and Europe and played at national and international jazz festivals and club stages, such as Jazzclub Fasching, Stockholm, Copenhagen Jazzhouse, Fredmans, Malmö, Jazzclub Nefertiti, Molde International Jazz Festival, Pori International Jazz Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Stockholm Jazz And Blues Festival. As freelancing jazz drummer, he has played in various contexts with Monica Zetterlund, Putte Wickman, Vincent Herring, Joey Calderazzo, Svante Thuresson, Esbjörn Svensson, Nils Landgren, Mark Murphy, Benny Bailey, Claes Janson, Stacey Kent, Ted Curson, Etta Cameron, Arne Domnérus, Georgie Fame, Viktoria Tolstoy, Richard Boone, Karin Krog, Fredrik Kronkvist, and Tomas Franck among others. He has been band leader (1990–2001) in the jazz quartet Baker Boys (2), including the members: Jan Lundgren, Hans Andersson and Niklas Fredin, and in a jazz quintet (1997–1999], including the members; Karl-Martin Almqvist, Ola Åkerman, Jacob Karlzon and Mattias Hjorth. The quintet was broadcast in 1997, performing with the group's original music only, in an hour-long program at Swedish Radio P2. Besides jazz musicians, he has accompanied many more artists, such as Sylvia Vrethammar, Roger Pontare, Lars Berghagen on stage, as well as others in several radio shows for Sveriges Radio, and in TV programs for SVT, for example as a part of the studio orchestra Jan "Tollarparn" Erikssons Trio in Lasse Holmqvist's program "Mot sommarnatten," or on German TV, then with the American singer Jan Harrington. He has also participated on a dozen CD recordings, so far: Three of them with Jean-Simon Maurin Trio, in 2006 and 2010, and on a third one including the jazz singer Elin Wrede in 2009. In the early 1990s, Andersson was employed as drummer in Visby Big Band, for a year. Since 2001, he has had his employment at Musikhögskolan I Malmö but also partly, on Swedish 'gymnasium' level, as a drum and ensemble teacher at music schools in Ystad. Internationally, he has been a guest professor at Vietnam National Academy of Music Hanoi in 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2010. He has also held masterclasses: "Coaching jazzensemble" in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2007; and, in 2011, both been a guest teacher and held masterclasses on drum and jazz-ensemble play, both of this at the two conservatories: Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, Spain, and at the Konservatorium Wien, Austria,