Fanny Gunnarsson

Pianist, singer & composer
Malmö

Fanny Gunnarsson is a pianist, singer and composer based in Malmö. During her career, Fanny has played and collaborated with many big names in jazz and can be heard on a variety of records released over the years. She is passionate about original music and has actively chosen to target the contexts where she gets to work with her own or other people's compositions.

In 2019, Fanny was nominated by Sveriges Radio's Jazzkatten as newcomer of the year and with the band We Float won the prize for Jazz Group of the Year 2018. Her own group, Fanny Gunnarsson Quartet, has since its inception in 2014 released three full-length albums and an EP, all of which have been well received by both the press and audience and established the quartet on the Swedish jazz scene. The latest release "Night of Stars" was released on April 14, 2023, which was celebrated with a tour around Sweden that continues during 2023-2024. Fanny Gunnarsson Quartet was also selected to represent Swedish Jazz in the showcase Nordic Jazz Comets 2023. The EP "Share Your Past" was released in 2019 where the single "Rue du Jour" was named one of the best songs of the year by Göteborgs-Posten, the second album " Mirrors" (2017) was named one of the top ten records of the year by the music magazine Lira and the debut record "Same Eyes As You" with Jan Lundgren as producer was released in 2014, which led the quartet to stages such as Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival and Fasching.

Other bands that Fanny is a member of are the already mentioned We Float and the genre-crossing quartet Cure-a-Phobia.

About Fanny Gunnarsson Quartet:
"This is new, innovative and creative jazz of a high class which, in its own way, continues in a rich tradition." Sune Johannesson – Kristianstadsbladet.