Åke Nygren

Swedish music director, born 17 February 1908 in Alvesta parish, Kronoberg county, died 4 September 1980. He graduated as an organist in 1929 and as a church singer and music teacher in 1931. He studied singing and speech techniques for his uncle Karl Nygren-Kloster and for Leo Barczinsky and Antti Sovijärvi. He studied recitation for Gabriel Alw, Hilma Henningsson and Gerda Lundequist. He was a teacher of voice and speech therapy at the Stockholm Academy of Music 1945–1976, at Stockholm University in 1936, at Stockholm University 1960–1975, a teacher of liturgical reading at the Faculty of Theology in Uppsala 1949–1964 and was an actor at the Puppet Theater 1970–1974. Together with his brother Bertil Nygren Kloster, he led the voice school from 1942, later together with his wife Cajs-Marie Nygren b. Wallin (1912–1999) and sons.