Kathrine Windfeld (musician)

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Kathrin Windfeld (2018)

Kathrine Windfeld (born April 19, 1984 in Svendborg ) is a Danish jazz musician ( piano , composition ) who successfully leads her own big band.

Live and act

Windfeld's creativity was fostered as a child through storytelling and as a teenager through painting, theater, singing and playing the piano. During a five-month stay in a music course at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in 2003, the piano became her main means of expression and she began to compose her first pieces.

She studied at the Department of Musicology in Copenhagen, where she completed a Masters in Choir / Ensemble Conducting. Meanwhile, she was part of the experimental quintet "Ghost", which developed her feeling for writing and navigating complex rhythmic landscapes. It was through this band that she came to jazz and improvisation . After two years of jazz piano training at the Swedish jazz school "Fridhems Folkhögskola", she did a bachelor's degree as a jazz musician at the music academy in Malmö .

In 2011 she founded her own sextet, which still performs frequently in Denmark and Sweden. At the end of 2012 her quartet followed and the first edition of her Kathrine Windfeld Big Band , which appeared regularly with a more professional 15-person line-up (also with guests such as Mike Stern ) and released two albums with their own compositions and arrangements: The first album Aircraft was particularly popular attention in the Scandinavian region and received a Danish Grammy , while the album Latency (Stunt Records 2017) was recognized mainly in Great Britain and Germany. In 2018, Windfeld's big band Black Swan released the third album with compositions and arrangements by Thomas Agergaard . In September 2018, Windfeld went on tour in Great Britain with her big band. In December 2018 she led the hr big band for two concerts . A project with the Finnish Espoo Big Band followed in April 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
  2. ↑ Danish Dynamite on the piano (jazzthing)
personal data
SURNAME Windfeld, Kathrine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish jazz musician (piano, composition, own big band)
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Svendborg