Thomas Fonnesbæk
Thomas Fonnesbæk (* 1977 in Helsingør ) is a Danish jazz musician ( double bass , also composition ).
Live and act
Fonnesbæk started playing the double bass at the age of twelve; in the following years he had private lessons with Bo Stief , Jens Melgaard , Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Mette Hanskov and Ole Kock Hansen . He studied at the Rytmisk Conservatory of Music until 1998 ; then he worked as a freelance musician. In 1998/99 he also played in the Lyngby-Taarbæk Symfoniorkester.
From the late 1990s Fonnesbæk worked in the Scandinavian jazz scene; first recordings were made in 1999 with the Peter Poulsen Sextet ( Twelve Blocks Down ). In the following years u. a. the bands of Jacob Christoffersen , Kristian Jørgensen , Lars Jansson , Nikolaj Bentzon and Thomas Clausen . In 2012 he recorded his debut album Sound of My Colors (Prophone ) in Sweden with Lars Jansson (piano) and Paul Svanberg (drums) , followed by the production Where We Belong (2015) with the same line-up. In 2015 he released the duo album Eeg - Fonnesbaek ( Stunt ) with the singer Sinn Eeg . In the field of jazz he was involved in 24 recording sessions between 1999 and 2017, apart from the aforementioned with Alex Riel , Thomas Maintz and Mariane Bitran . In 2018 he presented the duo album Blue Waltz with Enrico Pieranunzi . Fonnesbæk lives in Copenhagen.
Web links
- Portrait (Danish)
- Web presence
- Thomas Fonnesbæk at Allmusic (English)
- Thomas Fonnesbæk at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eeg - Fonnesbæk (Nordic Music)
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 19, 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fonnesbæk, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elsinore |