Niklas Andersson

Swedish classical clarinetist. He studied at the Gothenburg Academy of Music with Sten Pettersson and with Walther Boyekens in Antwerp and in London with John McCaw. He is employed as principal clarinetist in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1992 after five years as principal clarinetist in the Trondheim and Helsingborg symphony orchestras. For 15 years he was also a member of the prominent contemporary music ensemble KammarensembleN where he participated in and premiered a large number of works by Swedish and foreign composers. In a chamber music context, he has also played with, among others, the Tale, Lysell, Zetterqvist and Nya Stenhammark Quartets and with the Czech Skampak Quartet. Composers such as Daniel Nelson and Victoria Borisova-Ollas have composed works for him and as a soloist he has appeared with Swedish orchestras at home and abroad in clarinet concertos by Mozart, Copland, Wallin, Nelson, Henze and Nielsen.