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Markus Leoson
Sweden

Markus Leoson Markus Leoson  was born 1970 in Linköping, demonstrated an early interest in, and aptitude for,  percussion. He was admitted to the Royal College of Music in Stockholm at the tender age of 15, and graduated four years later. In 1990 he was taken on as a percussionist with the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra, and became solo timpanist in 1993.  

Nowadays he is mainly a much sought-after solo percussionist, although he also works as a teacher, giving frequent master classes at music colleges and festivals. In addition to the Swedish soloist prize that he was awarded in 1995, he has won several international music competitions, such as the 1997 EBU IFYP (International Forum for Young Performers) Competition in Bratislava, and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in the same year. He also took home second prize in the Nordic Soloist Competition in Reykjavik in 1995. During the 1996-97 season, Leoson was Artist-in-Residence at Swedish Radio and did both concerts and several radio recordings. His debut concert in the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall in June 2000 was broadcast on German and Swedish radio. He has performed as a soloist on radio and TV around Scandinavia, Europe and Asia and he has performed with orchestras as

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Tampere Symphony Orchestra
Icelandic Symphony Orchestra
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Royal Opera Orchestra of Sweden
Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra
Beijing Symphony Orchestra
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
Nordic Chamber Orchestra
Lapin Kamariorkesteri
Stockholm Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Östgöta Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Uppsala Chamber Orchestra

Leoson´s first solo CD Percussion was released on the Caprice label in 1996. He has since released many others, including Markussion (nosag CD 071) on the nosag label, nominated for the 2003 Swedish Grammy Awards, and in 2006 Colludo (on nosag CD 129) and Malletiana on Caprice. He also made several several duo CD´s.

Markus Leoson´s repertoire is uncommonly eclectic, and over the years he has worked closely with composers from Sweden and abroad, who have written solo pieces and percussion concertos as well as pieces for cimbalom especially for him.

Since 2008 he is Professor at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, Germany.

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