2011 in Scandinavian music

The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 2012.
(Go to last year in Scandinavian music or next year in Scandinavian music.)

• 26 January – Norway's inaugural Bodø Jazz Open opens in Bodø, running until 29 January.^[1]
• 28 January – Marit Sandvik receives the Nordlysprisen award, given to a contributor to the music of Northern Norway.^[2]
• 28 February – Swedish duo Roxette launches its 55-date "Charm School World Tour", part of "The Neverending World Tour" in Kazan, Russia, in front of 8,000 people.^[3]
• 6 April – It is reported that keyboardist Per Wiberg has left the band Opeth.^[4]
• 16 April – During Norway's Vossajazz festival:
  • Mari Kvien Brunvoll receives the Vossajazzprisen for 2011.^[5]
  • Mathias Eick performs the commissioned work Voss.^[6]
• 9 June – Rockland the Opera, an opera by Finland's Jukka Linkola, is premièred at the Nivala Ice Arena.^[7]
• 17 June – The 28th Stockholm Jazz Festival opens in Stockholm, Sweden, lasting until 19 June^[8]
• 17 June – Finnish singer Tarja Turunen performs with tenor José Cura at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.^[9]
• 15 October – Olli Kortekangas's one-act opera Yhden yön juttu (One Night Stand), commissioned by the Sibelius Academy, is premièred at the Helsinki Music Centre^[10]
• 1 November – Norwegian TV station NRK broadcasts a 30-minute film in which musician Jørn Stubberud (aka Necrobutcher) undergoes an exorcism by US televangelist Bob Larson.^[11]
• December – Blood Red Throne take on Yngve "Bolt" Christiansen as their new vocalist, replacing Osvald "Vald" Egeland.^[12]

• Kalevi Aho – Trumpet Concerto^[13]
• Per Nørgård – Symphony No. 8^[14]
• Djuro Zivkovic – On the Guarding of the Heart^[15]

• 1 January – Flemming Jørgensen, Danish singer and actor, 63 (cardiac arrest)^[46]
• 17 January – Sjonni Brink, Icelandic singer-songwriter, 36 (stroke)^[47]
• 3 February – Eline Nygaard Riisnæs, Norwegian classical pianist and musicologist (born 1913).^[48]
• 6 February – Per Grundén, Swedish tenor, 88^[49]
• 24 February – Jens Winther, Danish jazz trumpeter, 50 (stroke)^[50]
• 2 March – Erling Kroner, Danish jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader^[51]
• 10 April – Børt-Erik Thoresen, television host and folk singer, 78^[52]
• 22 April – Eyvind Solås, classical pianist, composer, actor, and TV host, 73^[53]
• 24 April – Dag Stokke, Norwegian keyboardist TNT, church organist and mastering engineer, 44 (cancer)^[54]
• 31 May – Sølvi Wang, Norwegian pop and folk singer and actress, 81^[55]
• 24 July – Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist, 71 (heart attack)^[56]
• 4 September – Hilde Heltberg, Norwegian pop and folk singer songwriter, 51 (cancer).^[57]
• 8 October – Ingvar Wixell, Swedish operatic baritone, 80^[58]
• 11 October – Kim Brown, British-born Finnish rock musician, 66^[59]
• 19 October – Lars Sjösten, Swedish jazz pianist and composer^[60]
• 2 November
  • Arne "Papa" Bue Jensen, Danish trombonist and bandleader, 81^[61]
  • Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer, 96^[62]