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Sunday, January 4, 2025
— a “hybrid” event —
The Swedish Jazz
Anders Lundegard – Saxophone
Donato Soviero (not Steve Herberman) – Guitar
Daniel Brown — Bass
Post Holiday Jazz Blues
Jazz Trio playing the greatest jazz tunes of all times, and a few originals by The Swedish Jazz trio members.
Please note that Donato Soviero stepped in for Steve Herberman, who had a family emergency.
BIOGRAPHY
Anders Lundegård was born and bred in Växjö, Sweden. This mid-sized town, surrounded by deep pine forests in the middle south of Sweden, is otherwise mostly noted for producing world-class tennis champions, such as Jonas Björkman and Mats Wilander. Educated at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and at Northwestern University as a Fulbright Scholar, Anders now resides in Washington, DC, where he has made a career as a Private Wealth Advisor
Anders is the founder of The Swedish Jazz Duo, along with guitarist and singer Al Baumann. Lundegård’s own semiannual concert series, at the Lyceum, a concert venue in Old Town Alexandria, alternates between chamber music and jazz performances, often featuring his compositions in both genres. The subject of his doctoral dissertation was the saxophone concerto by the Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson, its relevance to the development of the saxophone repertoire, as well as its place in the history of the concerto genre. For his work as a saxophone scholar, Dr. Lundegård received the noteworthy American-Scandinavian Foundation Award, presented personally by the late Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Sweden.
Besides performing his own works for saxophone and piano, Anders performs extensively the chamber music repertoire originally written for flute, clarinet, violin and cello. His own adaptations for saxophone include works by the great composers such as Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. His previous recordings include all of Bach’s unaccompanied suites for cello, performed on various saxophones. Among his many solo appearances, he has appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and as a soloist with the renowned Swedish string orchestra Musica Vitae. Between concert seasons, he is an avid sailor and the proud owner of a 23-ft sailboat named after his two grandmothers Greta (port side) and Gudrun (starboard side).
Guitarist and composer Donato Soviero has been playing music since the age of twelve. By high school, he had already set course as a jazz musician. His formal jazz studies began at the University of Miami, and later he earned a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University.
Donato has appeared with top local and national artists in the Washington D.C. area since 1982, and led his own groups in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. He has appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Wolf Trap, and the Carter Barron Amphitheater, where he opened for Poncho Sanchez and the late Tito Puente. Mr. Soviero has also led bands in D.C. venues such as Blues Alley, Twins Jazz, the Bohemian Caverns, the Smithsonian Jazz Café, Bethesda Jazz and Blues, and many Jazz festivals. He is a member of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, as well as co-leader (w/ Jeff Antoniuk) of the Jazz-fusion group, the MARS 4tet. He’s played for several Presidents, and at the State Department for the Thelonious Monk Institute. Mr. Soviero has been the recipient of awards, including a 1994 TAP Award from the D.C. Commission of the Arts and Humanities and a 1995 GIA Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Recent recordings include the 2019 release “For All We Know”, “The Blind Watchmaker” (with the Mars 4’Tet), many features as sideman, and a CD tribute to Charlie Byrd entitled “Classical Jazz.”
Tom Cole, host of WPFW’S ‘G STRINGS’ has this to say about Donato’s guitar playing: “His beautiful phrasing and impressive improvising took me aback… He’s one of those real surprises.”
Daniel Brown comes from an eclectic musical background that includes Jazz, Klezmer, Rock, and everything in between.
Daniel has performed with such musical luminaries as Jerry Coker, Donald Brown, Rick Whitehead, Sean Jones, Harold Mabern, Wade Beach, Jeremy Wilson, Seth Kibel, Allyn Johnson, Tedd Baker, Joe McCarthy, Bill Mobley and Gregory Tardy. He continues to teach and perform frequently in and around the D.C. area.
Daniel has studied bass and improvisation with Rusty Holloway, Donald Brown, Jerry Coker, Mark Boling, Gregory Tardy, Michael Moore, Glenn Dewey, and Wade Beach. He received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz and Studio Music with an emphasis in String Bass Performance from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Music in Jazz Studies at George Mason University.
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