PROJECTS

www.copenhagensax.dk

The website of Copenhagen Saxophone Quartet Big soundsection!

www.4elements.dk

Home of the contemporary

music ensemble 4-elements.

The debut album soon to come!

www.amongmachines.dk

Duo with composer and laptop

artist Jens Hørsving.

Electronica advant garde.

Spring

Danish Jazz Quartet

Anders Banke, Jonas Westergaard, Peter Bruun and

myself. Own compositions with

inspiration from 70`` free jazz

Powerful hardcore jazz mixed with open lyrical moods.

www.trygveseim.no

Home of the Trygve Seim Orchestra wich I joined some years ago. Consist of some of strongest playing musicians

from the norwegian jazz scene.

www.triotrang.com

Norwegian Trio playing its

own spicy and bizarre chamber

jazz. Weird and poetic.

Cinemazurka

An ensemble that strictly

presents contemporary music for children mixed together with

live videos made and controlled

by VJ artist Anders Elberling.

Andersson/Snekkestad Duo

New Duo with swedish bass player

Thommy Andersson.

Primarily playing very laid back church concerts.

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contact:

torben@copenhagensax.dk

+45 24252759

Torben Snekkestad is born in Norway 1973.

Living in Copenhagen, Denmark

Classically educated saxophonist, dedicated to contemporary music

and improvisation music of all forms.
Alongside with his classical work, he has always found time

to play jazz music as well.
Have premiered numerous of pieces, both with his ensembles and

also as a soloist with orchestras such as

"The Norwegian Radio Orchestra" and "Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen.

He is the soprano-saxophonist of "Copenhagen Saxophone Quartet"

- one of Denmark's most prominent chamber music ensembles,

their records and concerts being internationally acclaimed.

He also plays contemporary music in another

Danish chamber music ensemble,”4 elements”.

Duo projects with composer Jens Hørsving (laptop) called

”Among Machines” and saxophonist Rolf Erik Nystrøm

Gives solo-saxophone concerts with pieces by composers such as

Berio, Stockhausen and Scelsi, along side with various scandinavian

compositions and also his own improvisations/compositions.

As a jazz musician his main projects are:

Spring (danish free jazz quartet),Tri O`Trang (a norwegian trio),

Trygve Seim Orchestra(norwegian band on the ECM-label)

Snekkestads wide ranging musical interests have led him into

numerous musical settings over the years, ranging from

the music of the baroque and classical chamber music to rock,

folk music and free jazz.

As a composer he writes mainly to his own ensembles, but

occasionally also for other projects.

He`s currently a teacher in classical saxophone at

”The Royal Danish Academy Music” and at various workshops.

Toured extensively throughout Europe, USA, Russia,

East Asia and Argentina.

NEWS

* Spring`s debut album on Ilk-music

out now ! PRESS

*AMONG MACHINES got a brand new web-site!

*4-elements will be solist´s with

Royal Philharmonic Copenhagen

in a new written piece by

Peter Bruun. Two concerts in january 2008

A modern "Concerto Grosso"

for 4e & Orchestra !