Fredrik Ljungkvist
Håkan Fredrik Ljungkvist (born 29 November 1969 in Kristinehamn, Sweden), is a Swedish jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet), the son of saxophonist Håkan Ljungkvist and married to the jazz singer Lina Nyberg.
Fredrik Ljungkvist

Tore Sætre · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Name
- Fredrik Ljungkvist
- Born
- 29 November 1969
- Birthplace
- Kristinehamn, Värmland
- Occupation
- Musician, composer
- Nationality
- Sweden.
- Fields
- jazz.
- Education
- Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
- Languages
- Swedish.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Håkan Fredrik Ljungkvist (born 29 November 1969 in Kristinehamn, Sweden), is a Swedish jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet), the son of saxophonist Håkan Ljungkvist and married to the jazz singer Lina Nyberg.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Fredrik Ljungkvist. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
museum · 69ebdca4-6e12-4da8-a488-717939bff794 · wikidata · Q1453276 · wikipedia · Fredrik Ljungkvist
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Fredrik Ljungkvist • Born — 29 November 1969 • Birthplace — Kristinehamn, Värmland • Origin — Sweden • Instrument — Saxophone, clarinet • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician, composer • Label — NorCD Ozella Music • Associated Acts — Atomic Fredrik Ljungkvist Quartet • Website — www.allaboutjazz.com/fredrik-ljungkvist-yun-kan-10-ten-by-eyal-hareuveni.php • Illustration — Fredrik Ljungkvist in Aarhus, Denmark (2011)
Career
Career
Ljungkvist was raised in Lidköping, and studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (1989–93). As jazz student he played with jazz bands in Stockholm, like Fredrik Noren Band, Lina Nyberg Group and Per "Texas" Johansson band. In 1993 he formed his own Quartet with whom he released two albums. In 2000 he composed a 30 minutes long piece for the Pipeline project, a collaboration between 16 Swedish and American musicians on initiative by the Svenska Rikskonserter. The piece was performed in Chicago and Sweden.
Solo albums
Solo albums
• Within Fredrik Ljungkvist Quartet • 1995: Falling Papers (Dragon Records) • 1997: Sonic Space (Prophone Records)
Collaborations
Collaborations
• Within the "Swedish Open" hosted by Christian Falk • 1999: Swedish Open (DaDa Records) • 2002: Dirty Dancin (Telegram Records Stockholm) • Within the trio LSB (Ljungkvist, Raymond Strid and Johan Berthling) • 2000: Walk, Stop, Look And Walk (Crazy Wisdom) • 2003: Fungus (Moserobie Music Production) • Within Atomic • 2001: Feet Music (Jazzland Recordings) • 2003: Boom Boom (Jazzland Recordings) • 2004: Nuclear Assembly Hall (Okka Disk), with "School Days" • 2005: The Bikini Tapes (Jazzland Recordings), live recording • 2006: Happy New Ears (Jazzland Recordings) • 2008: Retrograde (Jazzland Recordings) • 2008: Distil (Okka Disk), with "School Days" • 2010: Theater Tilters (Jazzland Recordings) • 2011: Here Comes Everybody (Jazzland Recordings) • 2013: There's A Hole in the Mountain (Jazzland Recordings) • Within "Territory Band" • 2002: Atlas (Okka Disk) • 2004: Map Theory (Okka Disk) • 2005: Company Switch (Okka Disk) • 2006: New Horse for the White House (Okka Disk) • 2007: Collide (Okka Disk) • Within the quartet "Parish" (Bobo Stenson, Mats Eilertsen, Thomas Strønen and Ljungkvist) • 2004: Rica (Challenge Records) • Within the quintet "Firehouse" • 2004: Live at Glenn Miller Café (Ayler Records) • Within the quintet "Yun Kan" • 2004: Yun Kan 12345 (Caprice Records) • 2007: Badaling (Caprice Records) • 2013: Ten (Hoob Records) • With Marilyn Crispell • 2009: Collaborations (Leo Records) • Within "The Deciders" • 2013: We Travel The Airwaves (Jazzland Recordings) • With Wadada Leo Smith and TUMO • 2013: And It Happened... TUM Records) • 2013: Occupy The World TUM Records) • Within "Fire! Orchestra" • 2013: Exit! (Rune Grammofon) • 2014: Enter (Rune Grammofon) • 2014: Second Exit (Rune Grammofon) • Within "Pipeline" • 2013: Pipeline (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1969
Fredrik Ljungkvist born at Kristinehamn.
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Fredrik Ljungkvist”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1453276: Fredrik Ljungkvist
Reputable secondary · Wikidata
Institutional database
- MusicBrainz artist record for Fredrik Ljungkvist
Scholarly · MetaBrainz Foundation
Honors
• 2004: "Jazz kannan" as the musician of the year from the Swedish Jazz Society (Jazz i Sverige)
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
Institutional database
MusicBrainz artist record for Fredrik LjungkvistMetaBrainz Foundation
Institutional witnessreference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
Open the remaining particulars
Fredrik Ljungkvist is connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
Within the Encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 18 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,438 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Fredrik BallPerson
- Fredrik HermanssonPerson
- Fredrik KempePerson
- Fredrik LarzonPerson
- Fredrik LundinPerson
- Fredrik NordströmPerson
- Fredrik NorénPerson
- Fredrik PaciusPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Fredrik Ljungkvist?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.