2013 in Scandinavian music

The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 2013.

Events

• 18 February – Norway's Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra appoints Edward Gardner as its next principal conductor, with effect from the 2015–2016 season. ^[1]
• 18 March – Sweden's Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra appoints Stefan Solyom as its next chief conductor, with effect from the 2014–2015 season. ^[2]

New works

• Hans Abrahamsen – Let me tell you (soprano and orchestra) ^[3]
• Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen – Together or Not ^[4]
• Aulis Sallinen – Baumgesang mit Epilog for Cello & Piano ^[5]

Film and television music

• Anna Jarvinen, Darya Pakarinen, Love Antell, Markus Fagervall, Mirella Hautala, Manskensorkestern, Hannu Kiviaho, Heikki Kiviaho, Harri Manty, Jukka Takalo – Finnish Blood Swedish Heart ^[6]
• Atli Örvarsson – Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters ^[7]

Albums released

January

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
1	Mors Principium Est	...And Death Said Live	AFM Records		[8]
25	Convulse	Inner Evil			[9]
	Cult of Luna	Vertikal			[10]
	Koldbrann	Vertigo			[11]
	Jørn Lande	Symphonic (compilation)			[11]
	Stratovarius	Unbreakable		EP	[12]

March

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
1	Honningbarna	Verden Er Enkel	Virgin		[13]
12	Tine Thing Helseth	Tine	Warner Classics		[14]

April

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
4	Atomic	There's A Hole In The Mountain	Losen Records		[15]
12	Ketil Bjørnstad	La Notte	ECM Records	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[16]
	Motorpsycho and Reine Fiske	Still Life with Eggplant	Rune Grammofon	Produced by Bent Sæther
	Gjermund Titlestad	Map Of The World – Music For Guitar	Ponca Jazz Records		[17]

May

Day	Artist	Album	Label	Notes	Ref.
10	Arckanum	Fenris Kindir	Season of Mist		[18]
13	Basshunter	Calling Time	Gallo Record Company		[19]
17	Blood Red Throne	Blood Red Throne	Sevared Records		[20]
	Gothminister	Utopia	AFM Records		[21]

June

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
14	Terje Rypdal with The Hilliard Ensemble	Melodic Warrior	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[22]
25	Lage Lund, Orlando le Fleming, Will Vinson	OWL Trio	Losen		[23]

July

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
27	Mercenary	Through Our Darkest Days	NoiseArt Records	Only album to feature Peter Mathiesen as drummer	[24]

September

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
6	Frida Ånnevik	Ville Ord	Grappa	Recipient of the Spellemannprisen lyricist award	[25] [26]
9	Duplex	Duolia	NorCD		[27]
	Duplex	Sketches of ...	NorCD		[28]
11	Mopti	Logic	Ocean Sound Recordings		[29]
20	Andrea Kvintett	Russian Dream	NorCD		[30]
	The Forester	Susanna and Ensemble neoN	SusannaSonata	Produced by Deathprod and Susanna

October

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
1	Arve Henriksen	Places of Worship	Rune Grammofon		[31]
8	Pixel	We Are All Small Pixels	Cuneiform Records		[32]
18	Karl Seglem	NyeSongar.no	NorCD		[33]
25	Geir Lysne	New Circle	ACT Music		[34]

November

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
29	Daniel Herskedal	Dagane	NorCD		[35]

December

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
18	Arvingarna	Änglar och en massa kärlek	Sony Music	2014 Guldklaven Award winner	[36]
	Skálmöld and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra	Skálmöld & Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands (CD/DVD)	Sena	Live album	[37]

Deaths

• 14 January – Morten Mølster, Norwegian rock guitarist, age unknown ^[38]
• 25 January – Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Norwegian opera singer, 89 ^[39]
• 16 February – Eric Ericson, Swedish conductor, 94 ^[40]
• 17 April – Yngve Moe, Norwegian jazz and rock bass guitarist, 55 (drowning) ^[41]
• 20 May – Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer, 66 ^[42]
• 26 June – Henrik Otto Donner, Finnish composer and music industry executive, 73 ^[43]
• 6 December – Tom Krause, Finnish opera singer, 79 ^[44]
• 21 December – Lars Edlund, Swedish organist and composer, 91 ^[45]

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45. Tonsättaren Lars Edlund har avlidit Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish)