About Archi Jamt
Since 2005 the string quartet Archi Jamt has made more than a hundred concerts. It all started as a project by Estrad Norr and continued on by the members own initiative as they realized how well the played together. The quartet made great success and the need for a string quartet in the province of Jämtland was apparent. Especially since this is the kind of group that takes on any kind of music together with all the fantastic compositions written for string quartets.
Archi Jamt got a flying start with lots of frequent assignments, acknowledged by the show Mitt i musiken (Swedish National Radio) and has up to todays date played in countless churches, pubs, libraries, theaters, the apline world championships, and more...
One of the more meaningfull assignments regularly taken on by Archi Jamt are school tours. With great enthusiasm children from the age of 6 and up to high school has been involved into the world of the string quartet. Other kind of collaborations includes choirs, vocal ensembles and artists like the pop singer Karin Turesson and jazz musician Leif Olsson.
The quartet has participated on several recordings. Recently Johan Ederfors released the CD "Festival of the Poplars" with compositions dedicated to Archi Jamt themsevles.
The great strengths of Archi Jamt is its diversity within the group and the courage to take on new challenges, always with devotion and the true joy of playing.
Bengt-Eric Norlén
The first violinist of Archi Jamt has got his education at the Academy of Music in Örebro and Gothenburgh, and by private studies in London. He worked in the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra for ten years before he decided to move back home to the beautiful surroundings of the province of Jämtland. He is now combining teaching at the musicprogramme of Birka folk highschool with the life as a freelancing musician.
Annelie Rydh
Educated at the Academy in Örebro and in Budapest. She travelled around Sweden as a freelancing violinist for a couple of years but has now been living in Jämtland for 17 years and makes her living by teaching and playing the violin in different kinds of constellations.
Annelie combines a part time job as a voilin teacher with various freelance assigments and has for the last 16 years been a part of the piano trio Trio Quinta.
Peter Roos
After studies in classical music at the Academy in Malmö he moved to Stockholm to get an exam in Swedish folkmusic too. He teaches, plays the viola in Archi Jamt but is also a busy violinist - not least in his bluegrass-band The Blue Mountain Boys.
Katarina Åhlén
Katarina got her classical chamber music degree at the Conservatoire of Trondheim, Norway, and is now working as a full-time freelancing cellist in the surroundings of Jämtland and northern Sweden. As a musician she has a broad range and is a member of bands like Eastwick, Trio Quinta and Las Divas.