Biography
Johannes Jansson, born in Stockholm in 1950, is a composer who, by growing up in an artist's family, identified himself at an early age with music as a way of life.
He studied composition between 1969 and 1972, first with Sten Broman and later with Ingvar Lidholm. After a time at Malmö Academy of Music and The Royal College of Music in Stockholm he lived in the south of India 1972-74 at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and was strongly influenced there by the composer Sunil Bhattacharya and the organ improvisations of Mirra Alfassa.
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His breakthrough occurred in 1987 with the Piano Concerto no1 (“Corpo in Luce”), a TV-production, which also included a film showing the work in progress.
Supported by conductors: Shi Yeon Sung, Alexander Vedernikov, Michael Güttler, Markus Lehtinen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Tuomas Ollila, Hunnu Lintu, Owein Arwel Huges, Richard Cook, Hans-Peter Franck, Niklas Willén, Claude Génetay, Arild Remmereit.
Since the early 1980s his works have been performed by the leading orchestras in Sweden.
To commemorate the millennium, The International Community of Auroville in Southern India commissioned him to compose “New Year's Music 2000”.
http://www.johannesjansson.nu/
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