Magnus Båge has worked as a flautist since 1990. The recent years he has been a freelance musician and has devoted himself to his solocareer, chamber music, jazz studies and composition. He has participated in many different contexts as a flutesoloist, orchestral musician, reedmusician (saxophone and clarinet). The last years he has also performed in the jazz world in Sweden and internationally.

Magnus’ own invention, a special kind of mouthpiece, which he calls the Expression slide, provides new opportunities to create effects on a flute that has never been possible before. ”I wanted to express new ideas, sounds and timbres. My great interest in Indian music and jazz, has of course inspired and influenced the development of the music that I have been working on since I constructed the Expression slide. In the European jazz, many musicians have borrowed sounds and expressions from our brothers and sisters in the east.”  The mouthpiece has inspired several composers to directly compose for Magnus Båge; Rolf Martinsson wrote “Shimmering Blue” 2005, Jan Sandström wrote ”Flute Concerto” 2009 och 2011 came “Concerto for flute, strings and harp”  by Anna-Lena Laurin.

Magnus received his soloist diploma at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 1994, and performed the Mozart flute concerto in G major with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has since then been frequently engaged as a soloist and worked in many of Sweden´s symphony orchestras. His first solo cd (Flute Music, SFZ 1005) was released in autumn 2003 and recieved brilliant reviews both in Sweden and abroad.
This is a real knockout recording… not another flute record but a milestone in the art of  flute playing.” - Sir James Galway.

The studies in jazz and jazz improvisation have resulted in collaboration with the jazz pianist Lars Jansson, bassist the bass player Fredrik Jonsson and the drummer Christer Sjöström – a new and important step in his career!

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