Let Mørck

Lasse Charles Mørck Nielsen (born February 10, 1989 in Svendborg ) is a Danish jazz musician ( double bass , composition ).

Live and act

Mørck, whose father and grandfather were classical double bass players, began playing electric bass in elementary school , and later also piano and guitar . When he was 12, his friend Søren Nørregaard showed him some of his compositions. As a student at the grammar school in Svendborg, he began to be interested in jazz and the double bass.

After graduating from high school in June 2008, he moved to Copenhagen, where he completed the basic musical course in Frederiksberg. Snorre Kirk and Magnus Hjorth gave him the opportunity to play with them and later join their respective bands. Then he studied in the jazz program of the Swedish Skurups Folkhögskola before returning to Copenhagen to begin his studies at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory . From 2015 he studied at the Universidad Veracruzana with the solo double bass player of the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Dechnik. Back in Denmark, he completed his master's degree.

At the same time he released his debut album Imagining Places I've Never Been (2017), which was created in a quartet with Jesper Løvdal, Tobias Wiklund and Snorre Kirk. The album received the Jazznyt Prisen 2017 as the best album of the year, and one of the compositions “Prairie Sunset” brought him the third prize as a young Danish jazz composer. In the following year he was awarded the First Prize as a young Danish jazz composer in 2018 (for the composition "Tezcatlipoca", which appeared on his follow-up album The Aztec Creation Myth Suite ). He can also be heard on albums by Snorre Kirk, Magnus Hjorth, Sidsel Storm and Tobias Wiklund.

Web links

• Web presence
• Lasse Mørck at Discogs (English)