As a highly estimated film composer with an international career Frans Bak has managed to bring a distinctive Nordic sound into a number of bigger TV and movie productions – including ‘The Killing’ (‘Forbrydelsen’), ‘Lilyhammer’ (The Norwegian Netflix series starring Steve Van Zandt), etc. Recently Bak also recorded the music for the British series ‘Dr. Foster’, which just finished airing on BBC1 – with an audience of more than 10 million watching the final episode. In addition, Frans Bak also composed the music for three Oscar-nominated short films: ‘Ernst and the Light’, ‘Helmer & Son’ and ‘Sweethearts?’.

At SPOT 2016 Bak has assembled a group of Nordic musicians – including the Swedish singer Josefine Cronholm, a string ensemble, a musician creating soundscapes and loops and with Frans Bak himself at the grand piano – to perform a series of compositions which all urge to thoughtfulness and preoccupation.

Frans Bak says about the forthcoming event, “I have long wished for the opportunity to let the film music unfold and spread its wings, because the listener will get to experience the music in a very different setting, standing on its own – an experience with a modern/Nordic feeling”.

Presented in cooperation with DJBFA – Komponister og Sangskrivere