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Alm, Jan, 1955-
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1955-
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Jan Alm was born in 1955.
He is a Swedish composer, musician, and educator. He studied double bass with Ferdinand Lipa, in Göteborg, Sweden and Klaus Stoll, in Berlin. After working in Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Norway, as assistant principal for one year, he joined the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 1984, becoming assistant principal in this orchestra in 1986. The same year, he was appointed teacher of double bass at the University of Gothenburg, Academy of Music and Drama. He's been teaching the summer course of Bass Club in England since 1999. In 2006, he wrote pieces for electric bass and orchestra, performed by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Gävle Symfoniorkester. He completed a cycle of fourteen settings of poems by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 2007. Scored for piano, string quartet and harp, the songs have been performed in Sweden and Warsaw, Poland. A new edition of Quartet No. 1 for double basses is available from February 2012.
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https://lccn.loc.gov/no2011135654