Sunday 27 August 2023, 7.30pm
Lisa Ullén / piano
Elsa Bergman / double bass
Anna Lund / drums
Ullén/Bergman/Lund is a piano trio based in Stockholm that plays free jazz that channels the American free jazz tradition as well as contemporary classical music. Combining raw power with an exquisite attention to detail, the three musicians make every moment sparkle with possibilities. In this aural space, every movement matters.
Ullén and fellow Swedes Bergman and Lund are all significant players in the Scandanavian freejazz scene and the trio first met in the sextet Anna Högberg Attack, and have since played together in many constellations. Their debut album Space was recorded by Mats Äleklint during the pandemic in 2021 at the legendary venue Fylkingen, and is released by the American record label Relative Pitch Records March 4th 2022.
Lisa Ullén is a pianist and composer, born in Seoul, Korea, raised in the north part of Sweden. She has fronted her own quartet, since the mid nineties, and to date has released as a pianist over 30 albums . She studied at the Royal Musical Academy, Stockholm, and conducted further studies in jazz at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, EAM at the electronic music studio EMS in Stockholm and the Royal Institute of Art. She has been working for many years in the field of improvisation, free jazz and contemporary art music. Ullén tours internationally, solo as well in different groups.
Elsa Bergman was born in Täby, north of Stockholm in 1989. Studied double bass in Trondheim, Norway at Sund Folkehøgskole and later the Music Conservatory Jazz departement. Moved back to Stockholm in 2012 and has since then been working in different groups in the field of free jazz and improvisation. Released her solo debut A on her own label in 2021.
Anna Lund, based in Stockholm Sweden, is a freelance drummer who works in several different free jazz groups.
