Fredrik Ljungkvist


Håkan Fredrik Ljungkvist, is a Swedish jazz musician, the son of saxophonist Håkan Ljungkvist and married to the jazz singer Lina Nyberg.

Career

Ljungkvist was raised in Lidköping, and studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. As jazz student he played with jazz bands in Stockholm, like Fredrik Noren Band, Lina Nyberg Group and Per "Texas" Johansson band. In 1993 he formed his own Quartet with whom he released two albums.
In 2000 he composed a 30 minutes long piece for the Pipeline project, a collaboration between 16 Swedish and American musicians on initiative by the Svenska Rikskonserter. The piece was performed in Chicago and Sweden.

Honors

Solo albums

;Within Fredrik Ljungkvist Quartet
;Within the "Swedish Open" hosted by Christian Falk
;Within the trio LSB
;Within Atomic
;Within "Territory Band"
;Within the quartet "Parish"
;Within the quintet "Firehouse"
;Within the quintet "Yun Kan"
;With Marilyn Crispell
;Within "The Deciders"
;With Wadada Leo Smith and TUMO
;Within "Fire! Orchestra"
;Within "Pipeline"