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Lotte Anker (2014)
(Photo: Hreinn Gudlaugsson)

Lotte Anker (* 1958 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish musician (soprano, alto, tenor saxophone, composition) of free jazz and improvised music .

Live and act

Lotte Anker (2018)

Anker first studied classical piano and switched to saxophone and jazz in 1980. From 1980 to 1984 she studied music at the University of Copenhagen and attended courses from Dave Liebman , Marilyn Mazur , John Tchicai and David Murray . She also attended composition classes with Bob Brookmeyer and with Danish composers. She played in various groups of Marilyn Mazur as well as with Peter Brötzmann , Marc Ducret , Tim Berne and Andrew Cyrille . She made her first recording with the Primi Band in 1985. She also worked for theater and dance projects. In 1988 she founded her own quartet with the pianist Matte Petersen, to which the trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær joined in 1992 ("Being" 1993). In 1995 she was a member of the free jazz trio "Anker-Friis-Poulsen" with guitarist Hasse Poulsen and bassist Peter Friis-Nielsen ("Infinite Blueness" 1996). In 1996 she founded the twelve-member “Copenhagen Art Ensemble” with trombonist Ture Larsen, with whom she also plays new music and accompanied Django Bates and Tim Berne (several recordings, including “Shape of Twelve” 1997). Besides Copenhagen, she played a lot in New York. In 1997 she began working with the pianist Marilyn Crispell in a trio (with Marilyn Mazur, "Poetic Justice", Da Capo 2001), duo and quartet ("Sine Die"). In 2003 she founded another trio with pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Gerald Cleaver (album "Triptych" 2005 on Leo Records ). In 2017, Anker released the album Plodi (Klopotec).

Anker teaches composition, arrangement and improvisation in Copenhagen at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory and gives workshops.

Discographic notes

• Lotte Anker · Pat Thomas · Ingebrigt Haker Flaten · Ståle Liavik Solberg : His Flight's at Ten (Iluso, 2018)

Web links

• official website