Anders Börjesson

Anders Samuel Börjesson (b. 1975 in Sweden) was educated in Oskarshamn, Gothenburg and Paris. From 1996 he studied at Gothenburg University and took a Master of Fine Arts in Church Music in 2000 and a Master of Arts in Music Performance and Postgraduate Diploma in Organ in 2002 from the same university, where he studied with Mikael Wahlin. His diploma program included Symphonic Fantasy and Fugue, Op. 57 by Max Reger. As part of the diploma program, he spent a year in Paris studying with Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin in Saint-Sulpice. Since 2011, Anders Börjesson has been organist at Mariestad Cathedral (on the eastern shore of Lake Vänern in central Sweden), where he gives weekly organ concerts.
Composition has been an interest from an early age; as a teenager, Börjesson composed synth/pop music before the organ caught his attention. In 1998, he composed an organ symphony (60 min), performed for the first time that year in the Vasakirken in Gothenburg by Ulf Norberg (now organist at the Koncerthuset in Stockholm). In the same year, Börjesson and his fellow student Mattias Eklund composed and performed the winning song in a national music competition between the six music universities in Sweden (inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest).
In 2015 he was winner of the international competition in composition for organ by the Swedish Organ Society and in 2019 winner in two categories (out of three) of the Orgelkids Composition Contest in the Netherlands. In 2020, Börjesson became one of the 'House Composers' of the US-based publisher Leupold Editions, a division of the Leupold Foundation.
Equally dedicated to performing as pianist as well as organist, Börjesson has, for example, played Grieg's Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto and Saint-Saën's Second Piano Concerto with orchestra; he has also transcribed the orchestral parts for organ. His compositions appear on Pro Organo with James D. Hicks and Hyperion Records with Christopher Herrick. Börjesson's works are published by Cantorgi (Sweden), Norsk Musikforlag (Norway) and Leupold Editions, a division of the Leupold Foundation (USA).