Cecilie Grundt

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Cecilie Grundt (born July 13, 1991 in Stavanger ) is a Norwegian jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Grundt became acquainted with music from an early age through her family's record collection and soon became interested in the music of Dexter Gordon and Charlie Parker . At the age of nine she started learning the alto saxophone . She received lessons at the Stavanger Performing Arts School while performing in various marching bands and other formations. At the age of 14 she played both alto and soprano saxophone; at the age of 16 she switched to the tenor saxophone under the influence of the music of John Coltrane , Sonny Rollins and Jan Garbarek . From 2015 to 2018 she studied architecture as well as in the jazz program of the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway in Trondheim.

Grundt founded her Cecilie Grundt Quintet there in 2016 , with Øyvind Mathisen on trumpet, Håvard Aufles on piano, Morten Stai on bass and Åsmund Smidt on drums. The band released the album Contemporary Old School in 2019 , which was critically rated as a major debut. She also runs the Matrjosjka quartet and another quartet of her own; she belongs to the Cosmic Swing Orchestra and the ØyvindLand group. In 2020 she and her quintet were invited to the BMW Welt Jazz Award . As a quartet (with Vigleik Storaas , David Andersson and Martin Mellem) she released the album Order and Chaos in 2020 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography
  2. ↑ a b BMW Welt Jazz Award 2020: the first Tuesday concert (Jazzzeitung)
  3. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
  4. ↑ meeting (jazzfun)
personal data
SURNAME Grundt, Cecilie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Stavanger