2015 in Swedish music

The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2015 in Swedish music.

2015 in music
By location
By genre
By topic
List of years in Swedish music

Events

February
  • 7 – The first semi-final of Melodifestivalen was arranged. The three next semi-finals took place on February 14, 21, and 28.[1]

March
  • 7 – The Melodifestivalen second chance took place on March 7.
  • 14 – The final of Melodifestivalen was carried out on March 14, 2015.[2] Måns Zelmerlöw's song "Heroes" won the competition.

April
  • 25 – Gamlestaden Jazzfestival started in Gothenburg (April 25 – May 2).[3]

May

June

October
  • 12 – The 30th Stockholm International Composer Festival opens at the Stockholms Konserthus, focusing on the work of Lili and Nadia Boulanger.[6]

December

Album and singles releases

January
Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
30 Pinball Marius Neset with Ivo Neame, Petter Eldh, and Anton Eger ACT Music Produced by Marius Neset and Anton Eger [8]

February
Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
17 Picture You The Amazing with Reine Fiske Partisan Records [9]

March
Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
6 Trees Of Light Anders Jormin / Lena Willemark / Karin Nakagawa ECM Records Produced by Manfred Eicher [10]
22 Hit The Wall! Mats Gustafsson together with Thurston Moore Smalltown Superjazzz [11]
23 Lucidity Atomic Jazzland Recordings Produced by Atomic, co-producer Sten Nilsen [12]
27 Young At Heart Ida Sand ACT Music Produced by Nils Landgren, executive producer Siggi Loch [13]

May
Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
19 Firehouse Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity with Petter Eldh and André Roligheten Clean Feed [14]

August
Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
21 Silver Mountain Elephant9 with Reine Fiske Rune Grammofon [15]
28 Just The Two Of Us Cæcilie Norby and Lars Danielsson ACT Music [16]

September
Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
25 Allas Sak Dungen Smalltown Supersound [17]
25 Postcard from a Painted Lady Kikki Danielsson Lionheart/Universal Produced by Sören Karlsson [18]

October
Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
23 Redo att gå Sönder Bo Kaspers Orkester Columbia [19]

November
Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
27 Melt Brian Chippendale / Mats Gustafsson / Massimo Pupillo Trost [20]

Deaths
January
July
  • 13 – Bengt-Arne Wallin, Swedish composer, arrangeur, trumpeter, and flugelhornist (born 1926).
November
  • 5 – Kjell Öhman, jazz pianist, hammond organist, and accordionist (born 1943).
December

See also

References
  1. "Artisterna i Melodifestivalen 2016: Hela listan – så blir deltävlingarna". SVT. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  2. "Sweden's Melodifestivalen dates, changes and presenters announced". Eurovision.tv. Archived from the original on 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  3. "GMLSTN JAZZ 2015". GmlStnJazz.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  4. Om Malmö Live. Malmö Live. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  5. "Bråvalla 2015". SongKick.com. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  6. http://www.konserthuset.se/Default.aspx?MenuId=84&InformationPageItemId=354&Kategori=In+english Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine "Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra presents fascinating 2015-16 programme"]. Accessed 24 February 2016
  7. "Martin vann i Globen". svt.se. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  8. "Marius Neset: Pinball - CD". Musical reviews. ACT Music. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  9. "The Amazing – Picture You". ConsequenceOfSound.net. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  10. "Anders Jormin / Lena Willemark / Karin Nakagawa – Trees Of Light". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  11. "Mats Gustafsson & Thurston Moore – Hit The Wall!". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  12. Lucidity - Atomic at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  13. "Ida Sand: Young At Heart - CD". ACT Music. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
  14. "Firehouse (Gatefold LP) – Gard Nilssen's acoustic Unity". Cleanfeed-Records.com. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
  15. "Rune Grammofon". Rune Grammofon. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  16. "Cæcilie Norby just the two of us – CD". ACT Music. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  17. "Dungen – Allas Sak". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  18. Håkan Steen (22 September 2017). "Kikki sjunger fantastiskt" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  19. "Bo Kaspers Orkester – Redo att gå sönder". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  20. "Brian Chippendale / Mats Gustafsson / Massimo Pupillo – Melt". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  21. Weibull, Hedvig; Haimi, Rebecca; Fossbo, Hannes (2015-12-23). "Sångaren Peter Lundblad död". SVT (in Northern Sami). Retrieved 2016-02-21.
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