Martin Küchen (b. 1966 in Eskilstuna) is a Swedish multireedist and composer, currently residing in Lund. His career began with busking in the streets of Sweden and Europe in the 1980s and early 1990s, with Swedish folk music and klezmer being his main stylistic focus. In the mid-1990s, he began to touch upon free improvisation and free jazz, and since then he’s been fully occupied as an international touring musician, having performed with various constellations and contexts such as Fracture Mechanics, LOOPER (w. Ingar Zach & Nikos Veliotis), duo with Keith Rowe, duo with Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Chip Shop Music, duo with Seijiro Murayama, and many more. He has also been part of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Fire! Orchestra and Per Zanussi's research ensemble (PZE); as well as having collaborated with dancer Ryuzu Fukuhara and poets such as Ilmar Laaban, Johan Jönsson, Maria Küchen and Bob Hansson). He’s played on more than 60 albums.
He’s continuously writing music for the ensemble Angles 9, and he has also composed music for Trespass trio, All Included and Martin Küchen & Landaeus trio. Currently he’s working on new music for an extended version of Angles 9, as well as writing a jazz-opera for Angles 9 with a string quartet and vocalist Elle-Kari Larsson, a piece that will have its premiere in the fall of 2022.