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Roger Carlsson - Percussive Impact

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IMCD 019
Recorded at the Gothenburg Concert Hall 1990-92

Producer:
Jan Johansson
Recording Engineer:
Michael Bergek

Per Nørgård
For a Change: Thunder repeated; The Image of Choc
The Taming Power of the Small

The Gentle, The Penetraiting
Towards Completition:Fire over Water

Askell Masson
Marimba Concerto

Aulis Sallinen
Symphony No 2

Total 71:55

Roger Carlsson - Percussion
Niklas Willén - Conductor
Jun'ichi Hirokami - Conductor
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Roger Carlsson was born in Borås, Sweden, in 1957, and studied percussion with Bo Holmstrand at the University of Gothenburg Scholl of Music. Upon completition of his degree, and the supplementary diploma, he took up studies in Denmark with Bent Lyllof, and then went on to the Royal Academy of Music and the National Centre for Orchestral Studies in London. He spent 1982-83 season in New York, studying mainly with Elden B. Bailey at the Julliard School of Music. He also attended master classes in various places with the leading percussionists and timpanists in the United States.
Carlsson has appeared as a soloist with various Nordic sympony Orchetsras, including Iceland's, and performed on the radio and TV on many occasions.