Jonas Lundblad & Ulf Norgberg
Biography Jonas Lundblad & Ulf Norgberg
Jonas Lundblad
is an organist and musicologist. He studied church music in Malmö, Lübeck, and Piteå, specializing in organ interpretation. A prolific freelance career performing both as an organ soloist and with choirs and orchestras has taken him to countries across Europe. When choosing repertoire, he looks mainly to the Romantic era and to new music and enjoys delving into the sources to discover unknown or forgotten works. While a student for Hans-Ola Ericsson, he performed the complete works of Olivier Messiaen. Since then, the music and mental landscape of Messiaen have remained one of his central influences.
As a researcher at the Department of Musicology at Uppsala University, Lundblad engages with historical musical aesthetics in a variety of ways, exploring connections to both philosophy and theology. A particular interest is German Romanticism, especially the aesthetics of Friedrich Schleiermacher.
Ulf Norberg
titular organist of the Hedvig Eleonora Church in Stockholm belongs among the most talented organists of the young generation Swedish musicians.
He studied in Sweden at Mellansel, Göteborg and Stockholm with prominent representatives of branch as Torvald Torén and Anders Bondeman. In 2006 he was appointed as the titular organist of the Hedvig Eleonora church, one of the chief churches of the Swedish capital.
UlfNorberg devoted himself to the work as the church organist as well as to concerts with attention in organ-improvisation. He is professor of mentioned branch at the academy in Skondal, Stockholm. Since 2014 he is also the Concert hall organist in Stockholm.
