Swedish Music

The Music Room at SWEDEN.SE

For the latest updates about Swedish artists and shows, as well as live streams featuring the best of seven different genres of Swedish music, visit the Music Room at www.sweden.se/music

Pop, Rock, Soul, Hip-Hop, Techno and more...

From ABBA to Neneh Cherry to The Cardigans to The Hives, Swedish pop artists have a long history of international success and continue to seduce audiences around the world.  Some Swedes making recent pop headlines include Dungen, The Knife, The Sounds, The Ark, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Sahara Hotnights, Shout Out Louds, Robyn, Jens Lekman, José Gonzalez, Love Is All, Vapnet, El Perro del Mar, Studio, Kleerup, The Field, Sally Shapiro, Teddybears, Lo-Fi-Fnk, The Radio Dept., Timbuktu, Marit Bergman, I'm From Barcelona and Loney, Dear.

Swedish producers and songwriters such as Max Martin (responsible for several international smash hits by acts like Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys) have also had a major impact on worldwide pop music charts. 

The Consulate General of Sweden in New York, in collaboration with Export Music Sweden, hosts annual music seminars and showcases to highlight the Swedish music phenomenon and to introduce Sweden's latest and hottest acts to American audiences.

Jazz

Accomplished artists such as Esbjörn Svensson, Anders Widmark, Nils Landgren, Rigmor Gustafsson, Magnus Lindgren, Jonas Kullhammar and Fabian Kallerdahl have helped propel Swedish jazz into the 21st century.  The Swedish Music Information Center (STIM / Svensk Musik) and the Swedish Jazz Federation (Svenska jazzriksförbundet) actively work to support and promote jazz in Sweden and abroad.

World / Folk Music

Combining synthesizers, electric guitars and modern production techniques with traditional instruments such as the violin and the nyckelharpa, innovative groups like Väsen, Hedningarna, Garmarna and Hoven Droven are at the forefront of a genre-bending new wave in Swedish folk music.

Classical Music

The percussion ensemble Kroumata, the cellist Torleif Thedéen, the pianist Fredrik Ullén and the chamber orchestras Musica Vitae and Camerata Roman are among the Swedish classical performers gracing U.S. stages during the past few years. Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand and the Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra perform regularly at venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Concerts Sweden (Rikskonserter) is a state foundation that annually organizes approximately 40 tours and 700 concerts, both national and international, mainly in the areas of classical music, jazz and folk music.