Søren Kjærgaard

Søren Kjærgaard (2017)

Søren Kjærgaard (born March 5, 1978 in Lemvig , Jutland ) is a Danish jazz musician ( piano , keyboard , arrangement ) and composer .

Live and act

Søren Kjærgaard grew up in his hometown Lemwig. After his early musical education, he received piano lessons from the age of seven. In 1997 he moved to Copenhagen to study at the Rytmisk Conservatory of Music . In 2000 he and his Trio Fuchsia won the Nordic Young Jazz Competition . From 2001 to 2002 he lived in New York City for a year , where he played with jazz musicians such as Michael Blake (in his band Blake Tartare ), Tim Berne , Herb Robertson , Jim Black and Steven Bernstein , before studying in Copenhagen in the summer of 2002 completed.

On his return he was artistic director and arranger of the formation Ultraktement , the band of the Copenhagen Music Conservatory, on whose album Andersens Drømme he participated. He also worked with Danish rock musicians such as Nikolaj Nørlund and Jens Unmack . In 2004 he made his debut album Bandapart with a band made up of Jonas Westergaard (bass), Jeppe Gram (drums) and Jakob Bro (guitar) . In the same year he was awarded the Danish National Radio's Jazz Prize. After his first trio album Amfebia (2005), the solo album Keys was released the following year .

In 2010 he gave concerts with his band at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2011, he presented the album Femklang (Ilk Music) with his American trio of Ben Street (bass) and Andrew Cyrille (drums) ,

Søren Kjærgaard (2014)

followed by Concrescence (ILK, 2018)

Web links

Commons : Søren Kjærgaard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence
• Nordic music

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biographical information at ILK Music (accessed on August 19, 2010)
2. ↑ Portrait at All About Jazz ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 19, 2010) 
3. ↑ Report on the Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010 at All About Jazz (accessed August 19, 2010)
4. ↑ Review of Jakob Beakgaard's album at All About Jazz (2012)