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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.)

Events

• 26 January – Norway's inaugural Bodø Jazz Open opens in Bodø, running until 29 January.
• 28 January – Marit Sandvik receives the Nordlysprisen award, given to a contributor to the music of Northern Norway.
• 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.
• 6 April – It is reported that keyboardist Per Wiberg has left the band Opeth.
• 16 April – During Norway's Vossajazz festival:
  • Mari Kvien Brunvoll receives the Vossajazzprisen for 2011.
  • Mathias Eick performs the commissioned work Voss.
• 9 June – Rockland the Opera, an opera by Finland's Jukka Linkola, is premièred at the Nivala Ice Arena.
• 17 June – The 28th Stockholm Jazz Festival opens in Stockholm, Sweden, lasting until 19 June
• 17 June – Finnish singer Tarja Turunen performs with tenor José Cura at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.
• 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
• 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.
• December – Blood Red Throne take on Yngve "Bolt" Christiansen as their new vocalist, replacing Osvald "Vald" Egeland.

New works

• Kalevi Aho – Trumpet Concerto
• Per Nørgård – Symphony No. 8
• Djuro Zivkovic – On the Guarding of the Heart

Albums released

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Deaths

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

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