Henrik Mossberg was born in 1971 and started playing the piano at an early age. As a teenager he played keyboards with various local bands and artists in his Swedish home town.
Henrik started out as a technical student at the Chalmers University of Technology. But gradually passion for music gradually took over and he made a final switch of direction, graduating a couple of years later with a degree in church music.
Alongside a position as a music director for the Church of Sweden, Henrik also regularly appears as a freelance jazz and gospel pianist in various settings including studio work, radio and television performances and playing with many of Sweden’s top artists on national scenes and abroad.
Henrik's first jazz solo album "Comments" (Imogena, IGCD 121), has received excellent reviews from the Swedish press and international radio hosts. The album features Svante Thuresson, vocals, Jan Allan, trumpet, Erik Norström, saxophone, Thomas Markusson, bass, Terje Sundby, drums and Henrik Mossberg on piano.
Henrik is an active composer and his compositions, of which many are published, include choral music, jazz, big band and songs for solo voice.
REVIEWS FOR "COMMENTS":
"...stunning sophisticated jazz ... powerful, evocative and very subtle and all the time cruises along with a hypnotic groove. Always infectious and always asking the listener to move with the sound, drenched in a wonderful feel. The choice of material backed up with a stunning band laying down some very cool licks is absolutely perfect. The vocals are superb and add to an overall sound that oozes class and sophistication."
Peter Merritt, Music Manager, PBS 106-7 FM, Melbourne, Australia
"Comments is one of the most sensible, well-balanced jazz projects of these times, rich of classic athmospheres, but also in sinthony with the contemporary culture. It isn't an only good "technical" project, but much more than this: it's a little love act for Jazz, with passion, creativity, intelligence and intensity."
Bruno Pollacci, "Animajazz", Pisa, Italy
"...The compositions are wonderfully lyrical and draw the listener into a world of peace and perfection. September Weekends evokes just the right sense of yearning, and Svante's vocals do full justice to the writing. A great lineup of musicians and a great album."
Helen Jarroe, Cairns FM89.1, Australia
"Excellent original compositions from pianist Henrik Mossberg who displays his workmanship with other top quality musicians either in a trio setting (my favourites as far as I am concerned) or adding trumpet or/and saxophone, some vocal tunes are also present in this album which I strongly recommend as yet another example of excellent nordic jazz, this time from Sweden."
Pascal Dorban, 'Jazz.com' programme, Radio ARA, Luxembourg
"Mossberg is a pianist and composer who belong to the luminously lyrical school of Nordic modern jazz, adding to it the clarion harmonies of traditional hymns. Among his accompanists, bassist Thomas Markusson particularly stands out, soloing with great aplomb on the beautiful "Morning Shades.""
Stuart Broomer, Toronto Life / CODA
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