Henryson was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2015.

Jazz Musician of the Year (“Jazzkatten”) by the Swedish Radio in 2014.

Svante Henryson was Northern Norway’s Landsdelsmusikernes Artist-in-Residence 2010-2012, composing and performing with the Sami community.

Chamber Music Piece of the Year in 2010 for Sonata for Solo Violin awarded by the Swedish Music Publishers’ Association.

Svante Henryson is a composer of orchestral music, as well as choral music and chamber music. His “Electric Bass Concerto”, composed in 2007, introduces the bass guitar in a new role as a classical solo instrument.

Henrysons first solo album, Enkidu, was released in 1997. He has also been prominently featured on many other albums in a very wide musical area.

After a drastic change in direction, he became bass guitarist of Yngwie Malmsteen’s band 1989–1992. During this period he started playing cello, an instrument on which he is an autodidact.

1987–1989 he was Principal Bassist of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra led by Iona Brown.

Spellemannprisen 1984 for Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 (with the Oslo Philharmonic)
Spellemannprisen 1987 for Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 (with the Oslo Philharmonic)
Spellemannprisen 1988 for Britten/Mozart/Tchaikovsky (with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra)
Spellemannprisen 1988 Spellemann of the Year (with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra)

He left his hometown already at age 14 to study music: two years in Härnösand, three years at Ingesund College of Music and (later) one year at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He was Principal Double Bass of the World Youth Orchestra 1983 to 1984.

Still in his teens and halfway through music college, he became a member of the Oslo Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons 1983–1986. After making his solo debut with the Oslo Philharmonic in Wanhal’s Bass Concerto, he became the orchestra’s Assistant Principal Bassist.

Svante Henryson (born 22 October 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a composer, cellist, bass guitarist and double bassist, active within jazz, classical music, and hard rock.