Max Agnas solo / Emil Strandberg och Jonas Östholm duo

Max Agnas:

Max Agnas is one of Sweden’s most expressive and versatile pianists – an artist whose playing is characterized by presence, curiosity and total musical freedom. With a background rooted in jazz but a heart that beats for everything from classical music to improvisation and modern art music, Max has created his own, recognizable tone that touches deeply.

Max Agnas, piano

Emil Strandberg & Jonas Östholm

Emil Strandberg and Jonas Östholm began playing together in 2003 and a few years later their album Once Around was released (Amigo, 2008). Since then, they have also been heard together in the Jonas Östholm Quartet and with artists such as Oskar Schönning and Sarah Riedel, but now they are back where they first got to know each other: in the duo format.

”It’s like a form of combined jazz and art music, which at the same time doesn’t seem to want to bother with definitions. The most important thing seems to be the tension between composition and improvisation. There is hardly any boundary at all. Their expression is the interaction itself. It sounds intuitive, trusting, concentrated and free at the same time.” – DN.

Lineup:
Max Agnas: piano
Emil Strandberg: trumpet
Jonas Östholm: piano