Peter Bruun, Søren Kjærgaard & Jonas Westergaard
Biography Peter Bruun, Søren Kjærgaard & Jonas Westergaard
Søren Kjærgaards
work as a pianist, composer and improviser encompasses a variety of settings ranging from his trans-Atlantic trio with drummer Andrew Cyrille and bassist Ben Street, to the duo collaboration with Torben Ulrich, the 82 year old legendary Danish tennis player and inter-disciplinary artist. Kjærgaard has received numerous awards and grants, including three Danish Music Award nominations (’06, ’09), a Danish Arts Council Prize Award (’10) for the album “Open Opus” with Kjærgaard/Street/Cyrille and his third trio release “Femklang” with Street and Cyrille was selected as Album Of The Year 2011 in The New York Jazz Record.
Peter Bruun
has placed himself among the most accomplished drummers in European modern jazz and improv for his distinct playing style. He has released music on the legendary ECM-label with Django Bates’ ‘Beloved’, toured with French guitarist Marc Ducret and 2018 saw the birth of the ambitious project All Too Human. All Too Human have since released two albums (Vernacular Avantgarde and Because You're Worth It').
Peter recieved the Carl Nielsen Prize for 'composer of the year 2019' and All Too Human recieved the Jazz prize/William Demant foundations for group of the year in 2020.
“Copenhagen drummer Peter Bruun has a Passion for Productive Paradoxezz. Black can be white vice versa. There is jazz, the other music and there is also the clever game of playing the other music in an other way." Henning Bolte - European Jazz Network
“…finds a way of breathing new life into the avant-garde” - All About Jazz
Jonas Westergaard
studied double bass in Copenhagen and New York. He is long regarded a leading voice on the instrument in Europe.
Recipient of Jacob Gade’s Legat in 2000 and Léonie Sonning’s Talent Prize 2005.
Recipient of the Danish Radio P2 Jazz Prize 2006, which launched and let to the release of “Helgoland”, a performance written for 9 musicians, that earned him a Danish Music Award 2009, in the category Composer of the Year.
He is currently residing in Berlin, where a.o. his work with the trio Dell/Lillinger/Westergaard (DLW) must be mentioned as a critical and essential force on the European experimental art scene. Their latest album “Beats”, following “Grammar” and “Grammar II”, is on the Longlist of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik@21.01 and the trio is nominated for the Deutsche Jazz Preis 2021, in the category Band of The Year.
