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Catharina Backman

Catharina Backman is born in
1961 and grew up outside Stockholm. She played piano from an
early age in the Municipal Music School. Efter secondary
school she got interested in jazz and improvised music and
studied at the Skurup folkhögskola. After that she went on
tour as the music director of "Varieté Vauduvill" with
performances in a tent with snake-charmers, fakirs and belly
dancers. There she got used to theatre music and and to be on
stage. As a surplus she learned to play the accordion.
Back
in Stockholm again she started the group "Katzen Kapell"
together with two friends from the Skurup folkhögskola. The
repertoire consists of their own material, influenced by tango
music.
Catharina Backman has studied composition in
Stockholm with Maurice Karkoff and at Malmö Academy of Music
with Hans Gefors and Kent Olofsson (examined in 2000). Gunilla
Wretemark.

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