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Dan Laurin (1960 in Jönköping, Sweden) is an award-winning Swedish recorder player.
He studied at the Conservatories of Odense and Copenhagen from 1976-82. Since 1980 he has been on the concert stage, performing and recording with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Bach Collegium Japan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and The Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and many other ensembles, with regular tours to Japan, the United States, Israel and across Europe. His work as a performing musician is complemented by an active teaching schedule including professorships at The Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, Odense; The Conservatory of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen. More recently Dan Laurin was appointed professor of the recorder and teaches at Stockholm's Royal University College of Music, and he has also been appointed guest professor at the National University for Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo. He researches and lectures on many areas of interpretation, music aesthetics, recorder acoustics, sound techniques, and performance issues.
Dan Laurin can plausibly be said to be one of the greatest players of the recorder active today, alongside others such as Michala Petri.
Dan Laurin is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and in 2001 he received the medal 'Litteris et Artibus' from the King of Sweden.
Laurin collaborated with the Australian instrument maker Frederick Morgan to advance recorder design, and this resulted in a succession of reconstructions of instruments from earlier times, including an instrument that was designed specifically for Dan Laurin's 9-CD recording of Jacob van Eyck's monumental Der Fluyten Lust-hof (BIS-CD-775/780), the largest work ever written for a wind instrument
. Laurin has inspired a new generation of listeners and players, and has already trained some of the leading young recorder virtuosi in Europe and beyond. As a young man he reinvented the recorder as a vehicle of the highest artistic expression, and his playing continues to delight, challenge and enthrall audiences and fellow-musicians across the world.
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