Emilia Amper Band
Emilia Amper - nyckelharpa & vocals
Lena Jonsson/Bridget Marsden/Erika Risinger - fiddle & vocals
Anders Löfberg/Klara Källström - cello & vocals
Fredrik Gille/Olle Linder/Dan Knagg - percussion & vocals
In Emilia Amper Band Emilia shines as an ensemble leader, composer, instrumentalist, singer and presenter, with a repertoire of Emilia's own compositions and newly arranged traditional Swedish folk music. accompanied by some well chosen and dear friends from the Swedish folk music scene.
Emilia Amper, Erika Risinger, Anders Löfberg and Olle Linder
Emilia Amper Trio
the trio version...
Emilia Amper - nyckelharpa & vocals
Anders Löfberg - cello
Fredrik Gille/Olle Linder/Dan Knagg - percussion
ODE
ODE is the magical meeting of three glimmering stars in the Swedish folk music sky: Olle Linder (mandola, 8 string guitar, percussion and vocals), Dan Knagg (percussion, vocals, guitar) and Emilia Amper (nyckelharpa and vocals). Their chemistry as persons and musicians is extraordinary and their captivating songs, contagious groove and charming stage presence makes audiences smile, cry and dance. Their repertoire is built solely on their own newly composed material, and their texts are inspired by things that concern here and now. The setting and sound is full of rhythmical influences from Sweden, West Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, from traditional music, contemporary folk and pop.
ODE's debut album "Och hela världen den log" was released in June 2013, and they have since toured in Sweden, Norway, the US, Belgium, Canada and France.
Björn Meyer - artistic leader, electric bass and
bass mandola
Emilia Amper - nyckelharpa
Reza Asgarzadeh - duduk
Kaspar Rast - percussion
Klaus Gesing - bass clarinet and soprano saxophone
Karin Streule - vocals
Veronika Stalder - vocals
Mohamed Sami - violin
Carlo Niederhauser - cello
Garden of Silence
Nine musicians from three continents in a creative dialog that goes far beyond music. A bridge between traditions, drawing its strength from the abundance of diversity and a vibrant commitment to human understanding.
“Music that will make you want to acoustically rediscover the world.”
It started in 2009 with a dream. Harpist, composer and singer Asita Hamidi (†2012) heard the sound of an indescribable ensemble and, together with Björn Meyer, set out to make this vision a reality. They quickly realized that it was more about the musicians involved than the instruments they play.
For several years, Asita and Björn traveled to Iran, Egypt and Sweden, where they met with master musicians to create a special kind of music that incorporates influences from the different cultural backgrounds. A completely new and unique sound world with exceptional voices and instruments such as bass mandola, violin, cello, percussion, duduk and nyckelharpa.
The intense collaboration has led to deep personal relationships, which are at least as important for the repertoire as the composed material. Music as a universal language, an unforgettable musical experience - intense and dynamic.
ALBUM RELEASE December 2024!
Tour in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany in Sept-Oct 2025!
Björn Meyer (SE,CH) artistic director/bass/bass-mandola, Emilia Amper (SE) nyckelharpa, Karin Streule and Veronika Stalder (CH) vocals, Reza Asgarzadeh (IR) duduk, Kaspar Rast (CH) drums/percussion, Carlo Niederhauser (CH) cello, Klaus Gesing (DE) bassclarinet/soprano saxophone, Mohamed Samy (EG) violin
Nadin Al Khalidi &
In this high-octane folk/world duo, Emilia Amper (SE) and Nadin Al Khalidi (SE/IQ/EG) meet in the deepest respect for each other as artists and human beings, with full focus on mesmerizing melodies, contagious grooves and spellbinding stories. Their repertoire is a mix of folk songs from Sweden, the Middle East and other parts of the world, paired with their own compositions.
Nadin Al Khalidi, originally from Iraq/Egypt, has during her 20+ years in Sweden become one of Sweden's most celebrated musicians. She tours world wide with her band Tarabband, who have also grown a great fan base in the Middle East, and she performs in school concerts, theatre projects and as a music radio host. She was awarded the title of Traditionbearer of the year at the Swedish Folk & World Music Awards in 2014.
The school/family concert Världens musik med Nadin och Emilia features a musical journey around the world, with songs in 6 languages performed on 7 instruments and voices, exploring how music is used to express universal human feelings and experiences. More info about the school/family concert here.
Members:
Nadin Al Khalidi - vocals, algerian mandole, guitar, kopuz, daf
Emilia Amper - vocals, nyckelharpas
Emilia Amper
Haltli/Vårdal/Amper
Finnskogspols and other love songs...
Three groundbreaking tradition bearers from the Norwegian and Swedish folk music scene come together in this new trio, moving from mesmerizing love songs and breathtaking improvisations to setting dance floors on fire in the wildest Finnskogspols dances! Accordion maestro and composer Frode Haltli and fiddler, Hardanger fiddler, composer and dancer Vegan Vårdal have been playing together since the 90s and are both trendsetters in Norwegian folk. Nyckelharpa player, composer and singer Emilia Amper have been playing with them both in other settings, but this particular trio premiered in 2022. Welcome to a magical world of brilliantly sensitive and fiercely groovy Swedish-Norwegian trad folk at it's very best!
Frode Haltli - accordion
Vegar Vårdal - fiddle, hardanger fiddle
Emilia Amper - nyckelharpa, tenor nyckelharpa and vocals
Openness, curiosity and artistic courage are the characteristics of musicians Anna Petrini and Emilia Amper. With different musical backgrounds but a fellow approach to music, Petrini and Amper created their duo in 2020 with a premiere concert at Katrina chamber music festival on Åland.
They set out on a slack line together without fully knowing where their musical journey of discovery will take them, and perhaps this is exactly what makes it so exciting. Through a kind of association game between the genres, they build their repertoire in search of what makes music survive, century after century.
Nordic folk music meets early music (1200-1700) from all corners of Europe. Folk songs are woven together with dances and songs and form new music. Own arrangements and new compositions make up their concert program.
Emilia Amper and Anna Petrini create an intimate concert experience where music is played by people for people.
Members:
Emilia Amper - nyckelharpas and vocals
Anna Petrini - recorders
Petrini/Amper
Archaic music from who knows where!
Nordic traditions get weird in accordionist/composer Frode Haltli’s stripped-down successor to ‘Avant Folk’.
Accordionist and composer Frode Haltli follows up last year’s acclaimed Hubro release, ‘Avant Folk’, with a smaller-scale yet equally inspired album that is built once again on the combination of traditional Nordic folk forms with influences drawn from world music and contemporary composition/improvisation. In some ways, ‘Border Woods’ is both folkier and more ‘avant’ than its predecessor. The reduction in the size of the ensemble, from a dectet to a quartet, creates a corresponding increase in intensity, while Haltli frequently divides the unit further, using the two matched pairs of performers separately for a number of duo sequences. As the band expands and contracts in response to the demands of each tune, the music veers from cool, meditative explorations at the outer reaches of sound, to full-on pentatonic grooves and folk-rocky, foot-tapping jams.
Frode Haltli - accordions
Emilia Amper - nyckelharpas
Håkon Stene - percussion
Eirik Raude - percussion
