From an early age Swedish-born
Anders Lundegård demonstrated a unique talent for performing classical
music on the saxophone. Educated at Kungliga Musikhögskolan (the
Royal Academy of Music) in Stockholm and at Northwestern University in
the US, he has won numerous awards, including the Fulbright and a Sweden-America
Foundation Fellowship .His dissertation, Background and Emergence
of the Swedish Saxophone Concerto - Lars-Erik Larsson, Op.14, is
an introduction to Swedish saxophone repertoire.
As a young musician, Anders was inspired by an anecdote from the saxophone's
early experimental
stages (1850s). During an informal visit to the workshop of Belgian inventor
Adolphe Sax, the Italian composer Rossini proclaimed the sound of the
new instrument as "the most tender and pleasing” he had ever
heard.
Dr. Lundegård has devoted his career to capturing this original sound.
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