Christian Meaas Svendsen

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Christian Meaas Svendsen (born February 26, 1988 in Kongsberg ) is a Norwegian jazz and improvisation musician ( double bass , electric bass , composition ).

Live and act

Svendsen began his career in the Kongsberg Big Band and trained for a year at Toneheim Folkehøgskole , before studying jazz music at the Norwegian Academy of Music with Bjørn Kjellemyr and Dan Styffe in Oslo , where he did a bachelor's degree in jazz / improvisation and classical music . He spent part of his studies at the Cologne University of Music with Dieter Manderscheid , Sebastian Gramss and Dietmar Fuhr .

Svendsen initially worked in projects such as Paal Nilssen-Loves Large Unit, Mopti, Duplex , the quartet of Magnus Bakken and the Andrea Kvintett . In 2007 he was awarded the Kongsberg Jazz Festival Talent Scholarship . During the 2010 Jazz Festival in Kongsberg, Svendsen was also given the opportunity to perform in seven different constellations. In 2011 he received the Kongsberg Community Culture Prize. for his commitment to the city's traditional JuleJam festival.

Together with his own quintet Mopti , he won the JazzIntro Prize in 2012 . In the group Nakama , which has published several albums since 2015, he processes folk , jazz and Asian music together with Adrian Løseth Waade, Andreas Wildhagen, Agnes Hvizdalek and Ayumi Tanaka in order to lead them to an unexpected synthesis.

Svendsen is also known for playing the double bass with several bows at the same time or with his feet. In his solo appearances and the two solo albums he also builds partly on the achievements of Stefano Scodanibbio . The music by Filosofer and projects by musicians friends like the Ayumi Tanaka Trio, the MMO ensemble around Martin Myhre Olsen or his duo with Katariin Raska also demonstrate Svendsen's interest in finding new forms of expression and languages. He also worked with Susana Santos Silva , Christine Wodrascka , Arild Andersen , Per Oddvar Johansen , Akira Sakata and Jørgen Mathisen.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography (Kongsberg Jazz Festival)
  2. ↑ Short biography (subradar)
  3. ↑ Terje Jensen: Festivalens travleste innbyr til jam. LaagendalsPosten, July 7, 2010, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Svendsen mottok cultural grant. LaagendalsPosten, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Mopti vant jazz intro. Norsk Jazzforum, July 17, 2012, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Prisdryss and Masterclass. In: Dagbladet . July 18, 2012, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Finding Ourselves in All Things (Nordic Music)
  8. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
personal data
SURNAME Svendsen, Christian Meaas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz musician (bass, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Kongsberg