Steve Dobrogosz (born 26 January 1956 in

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) is an American composer, songwriter and pianist. Dobrogosz is the son of

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and Donna Bartone and grew up in

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and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School. He studied at the

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in Boston, Massachusetts, and afterwards moved to

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in 1978, where he began recording and performing. Dobrogosz continues to reside in Stockholm. Dobrogosz's over 1500 compositions span several genres, including

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, pop, and classical. He has written a number of popular choral compositions, including ''Mass'' (1992) which has been performed in over 40 countries. He has collaborated with singers such as

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, Berit Andersson and more recently with Anna Christoffersson

His albums with Christoffersson, ''It's Always You'' and ''Rivertime'', were nominated for the Grammis Award in the jazz album category. His 1982 album with

, ''Fairy Tales'', was named best Norwegian album of all time in a 2012 Norwegian artist poll.http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/dobrogosz_steve/bio.jhtml He is married to Swedish flutist Katarina Fritzén. They have three sons, including

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, a contemporary jazz pianist and multi-instrumentalist.

Discography

*Songs (1980), with Steve Dobrogosz Trio *Confessions (1981) *Fairytales (1982), with

*The Child's Gift (1986), with Steve Dobrogosz Vocal Ensemble *Pianopieces (1994), solo, duets with Petur Östlund *Duckwalk (1996), Steve Dobrogosz Quartet *Mass and chamber music (1997), with St. Jacob's Chamber Choir *Ebony Moon (1998), solo piano *Best of Dobrogosz and Andersson (1999), with Berit Andersson *Feathers (2000), with Jeanette Lindstrom *Requiem/Te Deum (2004), with St. Jacob's Chamber Choir *It's Always You (2006), with Anna Christoffersson *When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd (2006), with St. Jacob's Chamber Choir *Rivertime (2008), with Anna Christoffersson *My Rose (2009), a Shakespeare oratorio *Stream (2009), solo piano *Poems (2007), with Annika Skoglund *Golden Slumbers (2009), Steve Dobrogosz plays Lennon–McCartney *Your Songs (2010 ), Steve Dobrogosz plays Elton John *Covers (2010), with Anna Christoffersson *World (2010), pianos *Celebratory Music (2010), for pipe organ, with Andrew Canning *Charts (2011), solo piano *Christmas Cantata (2012), Linköpings Akademiskakören *The Water of Life (2013), solo piano *Forest (2014), solo piano *Dreams (2014), solo piano *Free Country (2015), solo piano *Sequencer (2015), 43 basement tapes *Bara (2015), with Chikako Hino *The Wild Bird Flies (2016), piano trio *Stabat Mater (2016), Hiroshima Chuo Choir, Nozomi Terasawa *Silencer (2016), solo piano *The B3z (2019 reissue), soul/jazz band *Anthology (2017), with Berit Andersson *Sha-La (2017), Steve Dobrogosz Vocal Ensemble *Forgotten Man (2019 reissue), Americana piano *Candlelight (2017 additional material), solo piano *The Earth Is Singing (2018), with SYC Ensemble Singers, Jennifer Tham *Rocking Chair (2019), rock piano *Mood (2020), chill *The Gospel Chord (2021) *Yuletide (2022), Christmas piano *Almost Live (2022), with Anna Christoffersson

References

External links

Steve Dobrogosz official homepage

Steve Dobrogosz YouTube playlist
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