2003 in Scandinavian music

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The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 2003.

Events

• 3 January – At the Finnish Metal Music Awards held at Tavastia Club in Helsinki, death metal band Children of Bodom was awarded Finnish Band of the Year. ^[1]
• 11 April – Kåre Opheim is awarded the Vossajazzprisen 2003 on the first day of the Vossajazz festival in Norway. ^[2]
• 24 May – The 48th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Riga, Latvia. The highest-placed Scandinavian country is Norway in fourth. Sweden finishes fifth and Iceland eighth. Denmark and Finland do not participate. ^[3]
• 14 June – Finnish guitarist Alexander Kuoppala leaves Children of Bodom in the middle of a tour. ^[4] He is eventually replaced by Roope Latvala.
• August
  • After the Belgian music association SABAM decides that Sweden's 2001 Eurovision entry "Listen to Your Heartbeat" plagiarised an earlier Belgian entry, "Liefde is een kaartspel", an accusation denied by songwriters Thomas G:son and Henrik Sethsson, the Swedish delegation settles out of court. ^[5]
  • Vocalist Marco Aro leaves Swedish band The Haunted, to be replaced by the band's original vocalist, Peter Dolving. ^[6]
• 11 December – The Nobel Peace Prize Concert is held at the Oslo Spektrum. Stars include Craig David, The Cardigans and Jan Werner Danielsen. ^[7]
• date unknown – Norwegian folk metal band Trollfest is founded by John Espen Sagstad (Mr.Seidel) and Jostein Austvik (Trollmannen). ^[8]

Classical works

• Victoria Borisova-Ollas – The Kingdom of Silence ^[9]
• Sampo Haapamäki – Signature for chamber orchestra ^[10]
• Hafliði Hallgrímsson – Cello Concerto ^[11]
• Frederik Magle – Phoenix for mixed choir and organ or piano four-hands ^[12]

Film/TV scores

• Halfdan E – Arven ^[13]
• Thomas Knak – Reconstruction ^[14]
• Anders Matthesen – Jul på Vesterbro ^[15]

Popular music

• Julie Berthelsen – "Every Little Part of Me" (#2 Denmark) ^[16]
• Dina – "Bli hos meg" ^[17]
• Fame – Give Me Your Love" (#1 Sweden) ^[18]
• Jostein Hasselgård – "I'm Not Afraid to Move On" ^[19]
• Birgitta Haukdal – "Segðu mér allt" ^[19]
• Lene Marlin – "You Weren't There" (#1 Norway, Italy) ^[20]
• Kurt Nilsen – "She's So High" (#1 Norway) ^[21]
• The Rasmus – "In the Shadows" (#1 Finland, Germany, Hungary; #2 Sweden, Italy; #6 Denmark) ^[22]
• Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus – "Tiernapojat" (#1 Finland) ^[22]

Eurovision Song Contest

• Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003

Births

• 23 January – Bishara, Syrian-born Swedish singer ^[23]
• 11 April – Aksel Rykkvin, Norwegian singer ^[24]

Deaths

• 16 March – Teemu "Somnium" Raimoranta, Finnish guidarist, founding member of Finntroll (born 1977; injuries from a fall) ^[25]
• 31 March – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer, organist, pianist, composer and record producer (born 1949) ^[26]
• 9 April – Vera Zorina, German-born Norwegian ballerina, choreographer and musical theatre star (born 1917 ^[27] )
• 5 June – Ola Calmeyer, Norwegian jazz pianist (born 1930) ^[28]
• 16 August – Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish musician and radio personality (born 1957; heart attack) ^[29]
• 17 November – Peter Lindroos, Finnish operatic tenor (born 1944; car accident) ^[30]
• 27 December – Ingeborg Cook, US-born Norwegian actress and singer (born 1915)^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. "Metal News - Finnish Metal Music Awards 2003 Results (Metal Underground.com)". Metalunderground.com. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
2. "Vossa Jazz-prisen" . Retrieved 4 March 2025.
3. "Riga 2003 – Scoreboard". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
4. "Interview with Children of Bodom's Alexi Laiho". Metal-Rules.com. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
5. Bakker, Sistse (9 August 2003). "Swedish entry 2001 now officially plagiarism". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 14 February 2004. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
6. "The Band". The Haunted. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
7. "Klare for Nobel-konserten". NRK. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
8. Keith Clement (1 February 2019). "Interview with Trollfest". Metal Heads Forever. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
9. "The Kingdom of Silence". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
10. "Sampo Haapamäki: Signature". Issuu. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
11. "Hallgrímsson Cello Concerto". Gramophone. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
12. "List of works by Frederik Magle". Frederik Magle. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
13. "Inheritance (Arven)". CineEuropa. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
14. "Reconstruction". MUBI. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
15. Nielsen, Silas Bay (9 December 2013). "Her er det mest populære julehit". DR (in Danish). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
16. "Single Top 20". Hitlisten (in Danish). IFPI Danmark & ACNielsen AIM A/S. Archived from the original on 31 March 2001. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
17. "Dina [NO]". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
18. "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2003" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011.
19. Barclay, Simon (17 June 2010). Eurovision Song Contest - The Complete & Independent Guide 2010. Simon Barclay. p. 116. ISBN   978-1-4457-8415-1 . Retrieved 6 February 2011.
20. "Lene Marlin med ny single" [Lene Marlin with New Single] (in Norwegian). Virgin Records Norway. Archived from the original on 23 July 2003. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
21. "Kurt Nilsen Biography". AllMusic.
22. "Hits of the World – Eurocharts" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 116, no. 17. 24 April 2004. p. 49. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
23. "Bishara Morad". Birthday.se. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
24. "Akesel Rykkvin (Boy Soprano)". Bach Cantatas. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
25. Blabbermouth (18 March 2003). "FINNTROLL Guitarist's Death Was Alcohol-Related". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
26. "Tommy Seebach new Greatest hits album". ESCToday. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
27. "Vera Zorina". Guardian. 5 May 2003. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
28. "Ola Calmeyer Prosjekt" (in Norwegian). Swing-n-Sweet.no. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
29. "20 years since the death of Gösta Sundqvist — the mysterious Suomiroki great man was a hermit and a control freak". Ground News. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
30. Ruth-Esther Hillila; Barbara Blanchard Hong (1997). Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 225.