Fotos: Sara P. Borgstrom, Henrik Martensson
Anders Niska and Klas Wahl HARPA nominated 2020 for the music in

​'Balloons over Babylon' by Folke Rydén
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​Anders Niska has a peculiar and distinctive neo-classical composition style and masters perfectly symphony and wind orchestras as well as big band and jazz groups. He started as a saxophone and bassoon player and has degrees in composition and film music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Anders has composed and arranged for all leading Swedish Orchestras.
Klas Wahl is a composer and producer from Sweden. He masters programming, composing, sounddesign and mixing at his fingers tips, from years of working with dancemusic, tv and film.
Klas has collaborated with some of the world’s finest artists. In 2002, Klas had his first no.1 hit in the club chart: ‘Monkey’ by Therese. He co-wrote and produced Victoria Beckham’s ”Let your head go” (#1 singel chart UK) and worked with Stonebridge ”Put em high” (#7 in UK.) 

Together they have scored lots of international films and tv-series.
US Premieres 2020:
Samaria (directed by Daniel Alfredson)
Death of an Author (directed by Daniel Alfredson)
Dear Agnes (directed by Daniel Alfredsson)
Peace (directed by Robert Port)
Earlier works include:
Swedish Dicks (2 seasons)
Rig 45 (2 seasons)
Blackway (featuring Anthony Hopkins)

Currently they are working on a horror tv-series.
Nomination text:
​For a thoroughly composed score with several emotional nuances and delicate use of themes. The music framed the scenes with utterly sensitivity, created structure and enhanced the story telling, which shows excellent film scoring craftsmanship.
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​​"Anders and Klas are great to work with because they are not only professional composers but also two very empathetic and compassionate individuals. Their feelings for the story and the main character hugely enhanced the score. The music in the film plays a vital part of making Balloons over Babylon such an extraordinary feel-good documentary".

​director and producer,
​Folke Rydén 
"As an artist or composer you struggle all the time composing and creating. Sometimes everything flows and at other times you are just stuck. When I got the news about this nomination I was working very hard but I came nowhere. All of a sudden everything changed! It means a lot to us and it shows that we are doing something right!
It’s the relationship with people like Folke Rydén and other creative filmmakers that makes it fun. When you bring something to the table or try to push things from your comfort zone, you need trust. I think we got that in Balloons Over Babylon. So to get nominated is just so much more then the music for us."
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Anders Niska and Klas Wahl