We are having a lovely tour in the US! So many beautiful meetings and concerts. Looking forward to come back soon again!

So happy to be able to travel with my dear friend and our music again. Looking forward to play in Sweden, France, Spain and Denmark! We have also taken some new photos – Made by my dear sister, here is the first photo from the latest shoot! Hope to see you at any of our

This week, me and my dear friend LarsEmil visited Gothenburg and the Nordic Folk Alliance conference to play an official showcase concert with our duo Symbio. It was very nice to meet all the artists and delegates from the Nordic countries who took part of the conference – Meeting and sharing music with each other.

We are so happy to be invited to represent Sweden with an official showcase concert at the Nordic Folk Alliance this year – Together with 3 other great Swedish artists. We look forward to the conference in Gothenburg in April! /Johannes

Finally it is time to release this EP, which we recorded with Garizim back in August 2018. It took quite a long time to get it ready, because of different reasons. But after all – We are really happy to release it now! Name of the EP is “Moments in Between” and it consists of

Very happy to receive the honorable Scholarship for music creators and composers, from Swedish organisation STIM! The best thing about all of this is that I got to receive the scholarship together with my old idol and friend Stefan Brisland-Ferner. A musician that ment a lot to me when I was young and started my

We really look forward to visit France and play 10 concerts in August! France is one of my favorite countries and especially the south were we will be playing is one of the most beautiful places on earth (from my experience!). To be on the road with my friend in Symbio is one of the

Finally we get to play live with our new collaboration project where my duo Symbio meets up with the brilliant Swedish Jazz/pop-duo Sisters of Invention! We play 4 concerts together this summer and one concert at the Stockholm Jazz Festival in Stockholm, October. Covid situation is slowly getting more stable and we hope for the

I´m really happy to be given the Stockholm City Cultural Scholarship of 2021. I feel grateful and lucky to receive this award together with some other great artists and musicians. Thank you very much! This gives me some extra motivation and support to work on my upcoming projects and to continue to develop myself as

I just came home from a really enjoyable tour in South of Sweden. The tour was a cooperation between Symbio and regional music-organisation Musik i Syd. We are very grateful for having the opportunity to play live in front of people again, for the first time since more then 6 months… In these hard times

Because of the Covid-situation worldwide: Many concerts are cancelled this summer. I will have a real summer holiday (at least no gigs or work during weeks/months) for the first time in 10 years. I will try to use this time to take it really easy and rest after many years of heavy working and travels.

In december 2019 I had to pleasure to spend some days together with my friend Valentin Lambert. He is a lovely saxophone player from France and during three days we met in Stockholm to play together for the first time, after talking about doing it for years. We had a good time together, created and

We look forward to visit the International Folk Alliance conference in US, New Orléans next week! We will play an official showcase and also 10 private showcases during the week. This will be very exciting, it is our first time in US!

Here are the dates for our upcoming tour with Symbio in Germany starting tomorrow! We really look forward to these 10 upcoming concerts! 🙂

During this summer I have had some wonderful experiences on stage and off stage. One of the best memories is from the famous Rudolstadt Festival (photo) in Germany where we played a concert with Symbio in front of 2300 people. The audience was lovely and so warm to us!! We were there representing the Swedish

I am so happy to recieve the 2 years grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Comittee this year. This grant gives me the possibility to focus on my upcoming solo album and to give more time to my projects during the coming two years. My gratitude for this grant and for the support of my

Really looking forward to play with Symbio this summer! Here are the dates for our concerts! 🙂

I have just recieved a new hurdy-gurdy made by the Galician hurdy-gurdy maker Jaime Rebollo. Jaime is a very good hurdy-gurdy maker, in my opinion one of the best right now. I met Jaime for the first time when he was a student in my course in Galicia (2013) and already then I felt that

After a gig and a hurdy-gurdy workshop in Belgium we have had one week of tour with School concerts in West-North of Sweden with Symbio! It has been really amazing, except from waking up very early in the morning every day.. 🙂 We have met some very nice people and got a lot of inspiration

We are very happy to release a new live-video with Symbio playing our song “Rising” live at Swedish Indie Music Awards 2019 in Stockholm! Watch the video on youtube!  

Looking forward to play some concerts in Sweden, Belgium, Germany and Austria with Symbio during February, March and April. Hope to see you there! 🙂 Check out more info at: www.symbiomusic.com Warm greetings // Johannes

We are very happy to announce that Symbio will play as a live act at the Swedish Alternative Grammy Award: Manifestgalan on the 15th of February in Stockholm, at Nalen! We look forward to this!!

We are right now on our first UK-tour! It is always a pleasure to be out playing with LarsEmil and our belowed duo SYMBIO! Right now we are doing some concerts in the UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland)! Looking especially forward to visit Celtic Connections for the first time and play there! Check out more

Two months ago I met up with two UK-based musicians in Glasgow to experiment with our instruments. The three of us had never met or played together before so it was a fun experiment for us and we had a nice time together. After 2 days of jamming, we came up with a track that

Very happy to recieve a grant of 60.000 SEK from the Swedish Royal Academy of Music! This will help me a lot during next year! 🙂

During the last days me and my good friend LarsEmil visited The Womex (World Music Expo) at Las Palmas to promote our duo Symbio. We met a lot of people and also made some new friends during the last days! We were not the only Swedes visiting Womex and we have had a nice time

Finally it is time for us to release the new album of Symbio! The album is called “RISING” and we really love the music on this album. It has been a wonderful journey to create this music and to record and produce the album. Welcome to our release concert this evening in Stockholm at Stallet

Dear friends! We have recorded a new video with our dear duo Symbio. You can watch and listen to our new video here! The song is called “A Hundred Years of Joy and Sorrow” and it will be featured on our new album “Rising”! 🙂 Warm greetings! // Johannes  

I am very honored and grateful to recieve a very generous grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Comittee. These money will give me the possiblity to focus on preparing and recording my first Solo album. I have been longing to record this album since 1,5 years.. But many things happend in my life and it

Our new album “Rising” will soon be ready and the official release is in September 2018. If you want ot support us it is possible to pre-order a signed copy of the album already now! Check out our kickstarter campaign right here! We really look forward to share this new album with the world! 🙂

Check out our new live session video with Symbio. The name of this tune is Hiraeth and it is going to be a part of our new album that we will start to record in the last week of March. Hiraeth video on youtube! 🙂  

This week we had a very lovely concert with Garizim at V-dala Nation in Uppsala. We really have reached a new level with our music and performance and that feels great… I look very much forward to finish the material for our upcoming album and to record in summer 2018. In two weeks we will

Dear friends and listeners! After an intensive winter with massive touring together with LarsEmil and our beloved project Symbio I have had two weeks of vacation. Just before the vacation I was given a very generous grant from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and I am very, very happy for that. I remember the

We just had our first concert in Scotland, Aberdeen! It was such a pleasure to be a part of the Northern Arc Sessions at beautiful venue “The Lemon Tree” in central of Aberdeen. We shared the stage together with the Scottish band Talisk and the audience was beautiful and very kind to us! Thanks a

We have just had 2 great weeks with Symbio, touring in the North of Sweden. We have been playing concerts for children in 15 different schools and also some public concerts. We have met wonderul children and are really boosted with warm words, smiles and hugs from these lovely children!!! It is such a previledge

We had a very nice concert with Symbio at the Cultural Festival of Stockholm the 17th of August. Thank you very much everyone who came, it was a please to play at this stage and in front of this wonderful audience! During August we have had to very nice festival gigs at Urkult Festival and

We look forward to play with Symbio at three very nice festivals this month, two in Sweden and one in Norway. #UrkultFestival (SE) #Stockholmskulturfestival (SE) #Nordsjofestivalen (NO) Welcome to visit our website if you want to see when we play close to you! 🙂

Yesterday we had a very nice time together recording our new live music video in Stockholm. The music we play in this video is a new tune from us that will feature our upcoming album which will be released in the fall of 2018. This video will be released already in the fall 2017! 🙂

Time moves fast! We are already in the middle of the summer and during this month I have been working a lot with my dear trio Garizim. We have been composing new material for our upcoming album which will be recorded next spring. We have also been playing three concerts in three beautiful churches and

Last week I had three concerts together with Maija Kauhanen (kantele, voice) in Sweden. I love our duo and we had a great time together, playing concerts and also recording a new tune wich will be released as a digital single this fall. Thanks for to the audience for generous and motivating comments after our

Thanks for two enjoyable solo concerts in Galicia! Friday in Rábade and Sunday in Santiago. Wonderful audience at both concerts, so warm and communicative. I was touched and happy to meet so many nice people. Thanks to all people in the audience who gave me nice comments and bought my cd.s (sold out all 30

Today it was announced that Symbio recieves an economic support on 60.000 SEK from the Swedish Arts Council for the making of our debut album “Phoresy”. This economic support helps a lot and we are very humble and happy to recieve it among so many great Swedish musicians applying for it. We are now composing the material

Galicia in North-west of Spain is a special place for me. I gave a workshop and a concert there in December 2012 and I met so many warm, kind and great people! Since then I always wanted to go back but I just did not find the time or possibility… Last year when I was in

My dear friends and I in the trio Garizim have been composing a lot of new music during the spring and we now look forward to playing concerts and make recordings during the summer. We also had a nice photo session earlier this spring together with my sister Sona Hellman. Here is a new photo

This years program of the well renowned concert serie “Musik på Slott och Herresäten” has just been released! I am very happy to be a part of this program together with my dear colleague Maija Kauhanen. We will play two concerts with our duo 20th and 21th of June. This serie is produced by Scenkonst Sörmland and you can

We have just had one week of intensive rehearsals with Symbio, composing new music for our upcoming album which will be recorded later this fall. We are looking forward to play our new tunes at Urkult Festival (SE), Stockholm Kulturfestival (SE) and Nordsjöfestivalen (NO) in August this summer!

After 6 days of touring I am finally home from a tour with Symbio! We have had some really nice days together, playing music and hanging out together, meeting beautiful children and teenagers during our concerts! Here is a photo together with some of the organizers/producers of the school concerts we played in a beautiful theater

Last Sunday I had some nice time in the studio together with LarsEmil and our project Symbio. We recorded a new track which will be released as a singel on spotify during May! Recording engineer was Petter Berndalen from Playing with Music Studios. Great guy! Now we will focus on composing new material for our upcoming

I had a lovely time in Rotterdam together with my friends in Symbio and Garizim.. what a lovely crew to hang out with! The Celtic & Balfolk Night at De Doelen in Rotterdam was a really nice event… We are so happy to get invited to play there! We played one concert with Symbio and one

Last Saturday (11th of February) we had a very enjoyable concert at Nordklang Festival in lovely St Gallen, Switzerland. The venue was very cozy and filled with audience! Thanks everyone for coming, we hope to be back in Switzerland soon again! Now it is time for Symbio to play three school concerts in Sweden before

Here is a brand new video with me and Clara Guldberg Ravn (recorders) playing some medieval 1400th century music, from an Italian manuscript. The music is arranged by us and we recorded this video live October the 6th last year. Check it out here if you want! For people in Sweden who are interested our next

Last weekend I played some special concerts with Symbio in Rotterdam. The idea of this event is to bring live music to people in their everyday-life. What a great idea!! We played in a small tent right in the middle of a shopping street with speakers both inside and outside the tent. The entrance to the

I am very happy to receive a grant of 60.000 SEK from the Swedish Royal Academy of Music. I want to give my warmest gratitude to the musicians in the jury who chose to give me this grant among a lot of other great young musicians. Thank you very much for your support! Read more about the grants

We have had the pleasure to be chosen to be a part of Nordic Showcase FOLKELARM 2016 in Oslo, Riksscenen. It was a pleasure to meet the organizers of the cosy event. Very good atmosphere here and good musicians everywhere! Thank´s to everyone who gave us appreciation after our concert on Thursday evening, it was

For Swedish speaking: Kära vänner, Ett av mina absoluta favoritprogram i radio är programmet “Tankar för dagen” som sänds varje dag i P1. Just idag så har jag själv fått möjligheten att dela med mig av mina tankar i detta program. Om man vill lyssna på min tanke och mitt program så kan man göra

Finally our new music video is ready! We are so happy to show it to the world! 🙂 The song is from our new album Phoresy and the video can be seen here! We hope you will enjoy it and if you do, you can check out more about Symbio at www.symbiomusic.com! All the best //

Finally Symbio´s debut album Phoresy is available on Spotify! Welcome to listen to it right here! If you want to order the album, you can send me and e-mail or buy it through Ginza. All the best! 🙂 // Johannes

We have just released two new live videos with Garizim! We are right now composing a lot of new music which will be recorded during summer 2017. I really love our new music and I am looking forward to one week of playing and composing in Amsterdam with this trio during the first week of November. Please feel

We have had a wonderful release tour with one of my absolute favorite duos Symbio. Thank you everyone who came to our concerts during the last weeks 8 concerts all around Sweden. We have had some great and magic moments during our concerts this last week. We are so grateful to have met so many beautiful

We had an amazing concert with Symbio at Linköping FolkmusikFestival last Saturday. The concert took place in a theater and it was full of people in listening. Thanks for all 400 people giving us standing ovations and so many beautiful, warm words about our music and performance. Thanks also for buying our album, we hope you

It is finally time for Symbio to release our first album “Phoresy”. We already sold some albums during our mini-tour in Holland/Belgium and now it is time for 7 upcoming concerts in Sweden during next week. We are looking forward to those upcoming concerts and we are happy to release our new album! Please come and see us

We have just returned home to Sweden from a wonderful mini-tour in Holland and Belgium together with Symbio and we have had such a wonderful time during this weekend. To all nice people who gave us so much appreciation and good energy during and after our concerts – Thank you!! You make us remember again

The Swedish Public Radio channel P1 published a short interview with me because of my master concert the 15th of September. The interview featured the daily cultural news program “Kulturnytt P1”. Feel free to listen to the interview here! 🙂