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Om Anders Börjesson

Award-winning composer and organist Anders Samuel Börjesson (b. 1975 in Sweden) is the winner of the prestigious 2028 AGO Pogorzelski-Yankee Annual Competition.

Börjesson studied in Oskarshamn, Gothenburg, and Paris. Beginning in 1996, he studied at the University of Gothenburg, where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Church Music in 2000, followed by a Master of Arts in Music Performance and a Postgraduate Diploma in Organ in 2002. His principal organ teacher was Mikael Wahlin. His diploma repertoire included Max Reger’s Symphonic Fantasy and Fugue, Op. 57. As part of his diploma studies, he spent a year in Paris studying with Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin at Saint-Sulpice.

Since 2011, Börjesson has served as organist of Mariestad Cathedral, situated on the eastern shore of Lake Vänern in central Sweden, where he presents a weekly series of organ concerts.

His interest in composition began at an early age. As a teenager, he composed synth-pop music before discovering the organ as his principal instrument. In 1998, he composed a sixty-minute Organ Symphony, which received its first performance that same year at Vasa Church in Gothenburg, performed by Ulf Norberg, now organist of Stockholm Concert Hall. That year, Börjesson and fellow student Mattias Eklund also composed and performed the winning entry in a national music competition involving the six music universities in Sweden, inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

In 2026, Börjesson was named the winner of the prestigious 2028 AGO Pogorzelski-Yankee Annual Competition, an international organ composition competition endowed by Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Lester D. Yankee in the USA.

His other competition successes include winning the International Contest in Organ Composition of the Swedish Organ Society in 2015 and two of the three categories in the Orgelkids Composition Contest in the Netherlands in 2019. In 2020, he was appointed one of the ‘House Composers’ of the US-based publishing house Leupold Editions, a division of The Leupold Foundation.

As a pianist, Börjesson has performed Grieg’s Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto with orchestra, and has also transcribed the orchestral parts for organ. As a composer, he has received commissions from several prominent institutions and musicians. These include J. D. Hicks (USA) in 2018 and 2026; Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway (2024); Linköping Cathedral, Sweden (2026); and Skara Parish (Skara pastorat, Sweden), for the inauguration of a new Baroque organ in Varnhem Abbey (2026).

His compositions have been featured on recordings released by Pro Organo, featuring James D. Hicks, and Hyperion Records, featuring Christopher Herrick.

Börjesson’s works are published by Cantorgi förlag (Sweden), Norsk Musikforlag (Norway), since 2020, Leupold Editions (USA), and since 2025, Wessmans musikförlag.

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Published works, various publishers:

*Tre stycken (Three Pieces), Cantorgi förlag 2015, 1st prize in the Swedish Organ Society International Composition Competition.
*Marcia funebre for Piano and Organ Harmonium, Cantorgi förlag 2018.
*Paraphrase on the Swedish Children’s Song ”The Squirrel”, Commissioned in 2018 by James D. Hicks, Norsk Musikforlag 2020.

*Sonatina for Do-Organ and Flute / *Eine kleine Bach-Paraphrase, 1st prize in the Orgelkids International Composition Competition 2019. Public domain.

For Choir and Organ: Se, vi går upp till Jerusalem (Wessmans musikförlag 2025), Döden är uppslukad (Wessmans musikförlag, 2025), Herren är min herde, Herre, förbarma dig, Bara hos Gud, Som hjorten längtar till vattenbäckar, Ett skri genom natten (Wessmans musikförlag 2026).
Published organ works, Leupold Editions, USA
*Chorale Treatments Vol. 1-6, 2020-2024.

*Fantasy Variations on the Ukrainian National Anthem, 2022.
*National Anthems from Westerns Allies (European and NATO Countries), 2023.

*Little Concert Piece for Two Organs (2023)
*Symphonic Legend for Organ (under pseudonym Zechariah Mack, 2023)
*Ten Pieces for Organ (2023)

*Festive Postlude on the Norwegian National Anthem (2024 - Commissioned by Brita Sjöberg in Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim)

• *Organ transcription of the orchestral part of Grieg's Piano Concerto (2025).
• *Organ transcription of the orchestral part of Rhapsody in Blue by G. Gershwin (2026).
  *Fantasy on the Names MAGNUS GABRIEL DE LA GARDIE and VARNHEM (2026).
  *Organ transcription of Clara Schuman’s Three Preludes and Fugues Op. 16.
• *Five Picturesque Scenes for Clarinet and Organ
• *Fem smärre tonbilder (i sammanhang) Op. 7 av E. Andrée, arr. for Organ Anders Börjesson
• *Easter Diptyque for Trombone and Organ