Conductor Joachim Gustafsson is active in both opera and orchestral music around Scandinavia and beyond. He is the artistic director of the Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogotá in Colombia.
Gustafsson was born in 1967. His first instrument was the violin, and he attended the University of Gothenburg from 1983 to 1987, studying that instrument. Gustafsson co-founded the Zorn Trio in 1985 and made his debut recording in that group in 1996 on the album The Zorn Trio Plays Mats Johansson. From 1994 to 2004, he was concertmaster of the Gothenburg Opera Orchestra in Sweden. Becoming inte...