Background

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Anders spent much time at the piano when he grew up in the countryside in the west part of Sweden. At age fifteen he appeared with the Swedish celebrity boogie-woogie phenomenon Charlie Norman and the two Swedish jazz legends Arne Domnérus and Bengt Hallberg.

   

At age seventeen he began his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Ma. USA. Not only is Berklee known for its outstanding teaching methods, the teachers are also top level musicians in American music industry. Familiar names like Gary Burton, Ray Santisi and John LaPorta were just a few of Anders’ teachers at Berklee where he majored in performance to further develop his keyboard skills.

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Work

 

Lena Maria

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Anders and the singer Lena Maria Vendelius (Klingvall) started touring around churches in Sweden. Their work together grew quickly. The two has made two concert tours to USA and over 30 concert tours to Japan during their 15 years working together.

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He has produced and arranged their nine CD productions as well as composed many of the songs. He has also had the opportunity to work with musicians like Alex Acuña, Larry Carlton, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo City Orchestra.

 

Memorable concerts:

- Opening ceremony of Paralympics in Nagano 1998

- Tours in Sweden, Europe, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, USA

- Concert for the Princess of Thailand.

- Concert for the President of Singapore, 2002

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Steve Gadd

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Anders made two jazz projects with the legendary drummer Steve Gadd with recordings in Stockholm and New York.

 

The CD ”Mikarimba” was released in 2010 and followed by a tour to Japan

with Mika Yoshida - marimba, Anders Wihk – piano, Eddie Gomez - bas, Steve Gadd – drums, and Richard Stoltzman - saxophone.  drstevegadd.com

 

Anders arranged ABBA-songs for jazz trio and engaged the amazing musicians Steve Gadd on drums, Svante Henrysons on bass, and as guest soloists on the CD was Robben Ford – guitar and David Sanborn – saxophone.

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The CD ”Same Tree Different Fruit-ABBA” was released in 2012 followed by a tour in Sweden, Korea and Japan. The CD is produced by Bernard Löhr in the legendary Mono Music studio in Stockholm, owned by ABBA founding member Benny Andersson. (www.SameTreeDifferentFruit.com)

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Jazz, gospel, Japan and songwriting

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Anders Wihk Trio (with Johan Lofcrantz Ramsay on drums and Kenneth Holmström on bass) has been performing in jazz clubs, festivals, churches and on tours with Lena Maria, and also follow-up concerts with the ABBA-songs from the Same Tree Different Fruit-project.

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Gospel music is also a big part of Anders music and he initiated the Gospel Choir project FCGC and NCGC and collaborated with gospel singers like André De Lang, Paris Renita, EllyEve, Josefin Wassler and Berit Kullberg Söderholm.

 

In Japan he has also worked with the opera singer Shinichiro Maeda and the jazz guitarist Tom Kanematsu together with Anders Wihk Trio.

 

Song writing has always been an important part of his music career, and he has written many of the songs for Lena Maria during their 15 years long collaboration.

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2019 his song “This World Is Ours” with the young talented singer Eva Jumatate was released. 

2020 Four of his songs reached the Semi-final of UK Songwriting Contest and his song "One Last Kiss Goodnight" made it all the way to the Finals!

2021- Co-laborations with singer-songwriters like Will Diehl and Ulrich Zehfuss and more are releases on Spotify and other platforms. Listen to all releases by Anders Wihk at this playlist: This is Anders Wihk