Bengt Forsberg (born 1952) is a
Swedish concert
pianist
A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, j ...
most famous for his numerous collaborations with the
mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano. Her repertoire encompasses lieder, operas, oratorios and also rock and pop songs.
Early life
Von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was Göran von Otter, a Swe ...
. He participated in her project to record songs written in the
concentration camp of Terezín. Forsberg has a reputation as a champion of neglected music and composers.
He is highly acclaimed as a recital accompanist and regularly plays alongside
Mats Lidström
Mats Lidström (born 1959) is a Swedish solo cellist, recording artist, chamber musician, composer, teacher and publisher.
His first teacher was Maja Vogl, of the music conservatory in Gothenburg. He then went on to study at the Juilliard Schoo ...
and
Nils-Erik Sparf.
[
After graduating from the Gothenburg School of Music and Musicology, Forsberg was trained by ]Peter Feuchtwanger
Peter Bernhard Feuchtwanger (26 June 1930 – 18 June 2016)[Herman David Koppel
Herman David Koppel, known in Denmark as Herman D. Koppel, (Copenhagen, 1 October 1908 – Copenhagen, 14 July 1998) was a composer and pianist of Jewish origin. Born in Copenhagen, he fled the Nazis with his family to Sweden in 1943. He wrote 7 ...]
.[
]
References
External links
Bengt Forsberg
on bach-cantatas
Entries for recordings by Bengt Forsberg
on WorldCat
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1952 births
Living people
Swedish classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Date of birth missing (living people)
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century Swedish male musicians
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