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Hans Ek

Hans Ek is credited on 28 releases across 29 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1983–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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28

Pressings credited

29

Albums

5

Decades active

7

In collections

Biography

Hans Ek (born 1964 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a conductor and arranger working in the meeting between classical music, jazz, pop and folk music. He has worked with symphony orchestras in Sweden, as well as in Norway, Denmark, Britain, Canada, Lithuania and Turkey. Ek has been musical director of the Polar Music Prize ceremony in recent years. In recent years he has also devoted his time to film music. He has orchestrated and recorded music for films such as Let the Right One In directed by Tomas Alfredson, Troubled Water (Erik Poppe), A Man Comes Home (Thomas Vinterberg), Effi Briest (Hermine Huntgeburth), At Point Blank (Peter Lindmark), and The Murder Farm (Bettina Oberli). Since 2013 he has been touring with Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström of the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, performing their songs with orchestral arrangements.

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Credited work

28 releases · 29 albums · active 1983–2022

  • Performance · 41
  • Other credits · 4

Studios: Konserthuset, Stockholm · Sear Sound · East Connection Music Recording Co. · Studio Pärla

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Stolt
  • The Nàu Ensemble
  • Wilmer X
  • E.S.T. Symphony
  • Renée Fleming
  • Mew
  • Gävle Symfoniorkester
  • Ane Brun

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