Kārlis Auziņš
Kārlis Auziņš (born May 20, 1988 in Madona , Latvia ) is a Latvian jazz and improvisation musician ( soprano and tenor saxophone , composition ).
Live and act
Auziņš moved to Riga in 2007 to lay the foundation for his further musical education at the Riga Cathedral Choir School. From 2009 he completed his bachelor's degree in jazz saxophone at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Harmen Fraanje , Yaniv Nachum, Dick Hafer , Joris Roelofs , Ferdinand Povel and Jasper Blom . At that time he was active in various musical projects such as the Keno Harriehausen Quartet (winner of the International Zeeland Jazz Award 2013, but also the Mechelen Jazz Contest 2014), Tossia Corman , the Mainspring Jazz Collective . Since 2014 he studied at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in the master's program; in the same year he founded a duo with the Swedish bassist Joel Illerhag, who is also part of his quartet. In 2016 he released his debut album with the quartet on Gateway Records ; In the same year an album of the same name was released with the improvisation quartet Mount Meander , which was followed by a live album from Berlin in 2019. In 2017 Jonas Engel brought him into his own quartet Own Your Bones . He also plays in a collaborative trio from Riga with the guitarist Matīss Čudars and the drummer Ivars Arutyunyan.
Discographic notes
- Images in Regard of the Central Reference System (Gateway Records 2016, with Artur Tuźnik , Joel Illerhag, Simon Olderskog Albertsen)
- Mount Meander (Clean Feed 2016, with Lucas Leidinger , Tomo Jacobson, Thomas Sauerborn )
- Jonas Engel: Own Your Bones (Klaeng 2018, with David Helm and Dominik Mahnig )
Web links
- Web presence
- Kārlis Auziņš at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auziņš, Kārlis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian jazz and improvisation musician (saxophone, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madona , Latvia |