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Live: Here here! (from Sweden / Lisa Ullén: piano, Nina de Heney: contrabass, Ida Lundén: live electronics & objects, David Stackenäs: guitar) Guest: Michiyo Yagi (12-string koto, 17-string bass koto, electronics) Artist Information: Here here!  Lisa Ullén: piano, Nina de Heney: contrabass, Ida Lundén: live electronics & objects, David Stackenäs: guitar Lisa Ullén  Lisa Ullén, pianist and composer. Born 1964 Seoul Korea, grew up in the north of Sweden, now based in Stockholm. Graduated in 1990 from the Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm. Studies in jazz and improvisation at Chapel Hill NC USA. electro-acoustic music at EMS (Electro Acoustic Studio of Sweden). Among her commissioned works are intermedia project Kyrillien, chamber manga opera Ninjutsu , musical drama play Now time is waiting. She has been supported and rewarded by the Swedish Arts Council, the Society of Swedish Composers, Swedish Arts Grant, and the Royal Music Academy. [lisaullen.com](http://lisaullen.com) Nina de Heney  Nina grew up in Switzerland. She studied with Miroslav Vitous at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston from 1981 to 1983. She moved to Sweden in 1983, and studied at the Göteborg Conservatory of Music. Here she rechieved a Soloist Diploma 2004 to 2006. Nina has been free-lancing on the jazz and improvisation scene in Sweden for many years with a number of groups., currently with Lisa Ullén — Nina de Heney duo and Acoustic Electronics. This togehter with numerous solo perfomances, often working with dancers, has made Nina one of the most aknowledged double bass players in the jazz & improv scene. She founded — together with dancer Anna Westberg — the festival Dance’n Bass in May 2008. Nina’s first solo recording ”ARCHIPELAGO” on Kning Disk was released in 2007 . The second solo recording ” 2 ” was released on Subbau in September 2009. Her third solo album THREE was released on Found You Recordings in January 2011.
She has been awarded funds by the Swedish Arts Grants for several times as well as nominations for the Swedish Jazz Celebration, and received the 2012 Jazz Musician of the Year Award. [soundcloud.com/nina-de-hene](https://soundcloud.com/nina-de-heney) Lisa Ullén & Nina de Heney [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UcVgNSDiv4) Ida Lundén  The music of Ida Lundén has a wide range of expressions: e.g. the exploring of sound and new ways of playing in pieces like Vingring and Rrrp!, inspiration, soundwise and rhythmical from other forms of music like Indian Dhrupad in dínana-dánana, Finnish tango in Halusin (I wanted), African wind-music in Boom-choff-leuit and performance- based solo pieces like Han (Him) and Spänst åt alla (Vigour to everyone).
Something that over the years has become more and more important is a close collaboration with musicians when writing a new piece. For instance in Var modig mitt blödande hjärta (Be brave my bleeding heart) she works together with her sister, the singer and performance artist Sara Lundén. In an ongoing project she writes music for the duo Jonny Axelsson and Ivo Nilsson that has resulted in music for a film; ”Transire”, and Murghi Utha for selfconstructed synthesizers, trombone, percussion and five co-players.
A childhood full of hymn-tune-singing has given her a sweetspot for minor keys and folk like tunes. This can be heard clearly in the melancholic yet vigorous saxophone quartet Sorgla, written especially for Stockholms saxofonkvartett. Her music training has been long and thorough, both as a musician, teacher and composer. Pianostudies in jazz and improvisation at the School of Music and Music Education, Göteborg University and studies in music composition with a.o. Sven-David Sandström at Gotland School of Music Composition, Pär Lindgren and Bent Sörensen at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and Mathias Spahlinger, University of Music in Freiburg, Germany. Between 2004-2005 she held a scholarship at KunstForumHellerau, Dresdner Zentrum für zeitgenössische Musik and 2006 she was artist in residence and received the Omega award at Visby International Center for Composers. 2011-2013 she was Composer in Residence at the Swedish Radio P2.
Ida Lundén is a frequent keyboard player and performer in the fields of improvised music, avant pop and other experimental music. She collaborates with artists, film makers and dancers and plays regularly in the groups Ludd, (with percussionist Lise-Lotte Norelius), Syntjuntan and Konatus (with a.o. Dror Feiler). [www.idalunden.se](http://www.idalunden.se/cv/) Ida Lunden [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1m92vGre6g) David Stackenäs  David Stackenäs was born in 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. After finishing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm he has grown to become one of the mainstays of improvised and creative music in Sweden. Stackenäs works in the field of contemporary jazz and free improvised music. Over the years he has developed a unique way of playing guitar – both prepared sith different materials as well as conventional technique and a growing armada of pedals. He creates music with great imagination and poetry. As a soloist he mainly focuses on acoustic guitars, using a lot of the organic sound possibilities and timbres the instrument has to offer. [www.stackenas.com](http://www.stackenas.com) [www.soundcloud.com/david-stackena](http://www.soundcloud.com/david-stackenas) David Stackenäs [YouTube 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJx-zvOntbg) David Stackenäs [YouTube 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkJmcE0Y96I) Michiyo Yagi  Michiyo Yagi studied koto under the late Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai, and graduated from the NHK Professional Training School for Traditional Musicians. During her subsequent tenure as Visiting Professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, U.S.A., she premiered numerous modern compositions for koto and came under the influence of maverick American composers such as John Cage, Christian Wolff, Conlon Nancarrow, and John Zorn. Yagi’s debut CD Shizuku was produced by Zorn and released on his Tzadik label in 1999. In 2001 she recorded Yural (BAJ/ewe) with her six-koto ensemble Paulownia Crush; this group toured Russia under the auspices of the Japan Foundation in the fall of 2004. In 2005 Yagi released Seventeen (Zipangu), entirely performed on the giant 17-string bass koto. Live! at SuperDeluxe (Idiolect), a trio performance with Norwegians Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (contrabass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), followed a year later. In 2008 Rikskonsertene, the national concert institute of Norway, sponsored a ten-city tour by the trio of Michiyo Yagi, the German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, and Paal Nilssen-Love, a group that has been touring internationally since 2006. Head On (Idiolect, 2008) and Volda (Idiolect, 2010) both featured this trio. Yagi’s most recent release is Reflexions (Idiolect/Bomba 2010), a duo album with guitarist Elliott Sharp. Forthcoming CD releases include an ambient album co-produced by Eivind Aarset, a trio work with Lasse Marhaug and Paal Nilssen-Love, and a classical/contemporary recording. An eclectic performer who continually challenges conventions, Michiyo Yagi has performed at the Moers, Kongsberg Jazz, Punkt, Újbuda Jazz, Musique Actuel Victoriaville, Archipel, Bang on a Can, Tokyo Summer, Vision, Instal, and Music Unlimited festivals. Her collaborators have included Mark Dresser, Jim O’Rourke, Akira Sakata, Sidsel Endresen, Han Bennink, Eivind Aarset, Alan Silva, Kazutoki Umezu, Omoto Yoshihide, Ned Rothenberg, Knut Buen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Satoko Fujii, Joëlle Leandre, Håkon Kornstad, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Masahiko Sato, Carl Stone, Billy Bang, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, and Sachiko M. Her koto has been featured in ex-Judy & Mary guitarist/singer Takuya's band, and she has recorded with neo-prog rocker Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), pop idol Ayumi Hamasaki, and singer-songwriter Angela Aki. Michiyo Yagi currently leads the Michiyo Yagi Double Trio and the Michiyo Yagi Trio, and also perfon her original compositions. [Michiyo Yagi BLOG](http://michiyo-yagi.cocolog-nifty.com/) [Michiyo Yagi japanimprov.com](http://www.japanimprov.com/myagi/) Related events Saturday, September 5 JAZZ FROM SWEDEN @ 14th TOKYO JAZZ FESTIVAL Place: the PLAZA Tokyo International Forum Plaza [TOKYO JAZZ](http://www.tokyo-jazz.com)