Carsten Dahl

Carsten Dahl
Dahl in 2010
Background information
Born	Copenhagen, Denmark
Genres	Jazz, classical, experimental
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instrument(s)	Piano, drums
Years active	1980–present
Website	Official website

Carsten Dahl is a Danish pianist.

Awards

Dahl's solo albums received the DMA Jazz Prize for Best Recording in 2004 and 2011. Other awards include: Ben Webster Award 1997, Rodovre Musicprice 1997, Jasa Prize 2002, honored by the Danish music council in 2003 for 'Moonwater' and in 2013 for 'DreamChild', DMA Jazz in 2004 for the piece 'Solo Piano', Django D'orPrize in 2006 'Master of Jazz', DMA Jazz in 2011 for the piece 'Effata', and Jazz Specials Prize for album of the year 2011 Metamorphosis. He has also been nominated for the Robert music prize for 'Charlie Butterfly', the Carl prize, and received the prize of honor EWH with NHOP and Premie for 'DreamChild'. 'DreamChild' was also nominated for a grammy in 2013 and his solo CD "PAPILLON" won the Carl Prize for "composer of the year 2014" (named after the Danish composer Carl Nielsen). Nominated for DC of the year 2015 for GOLDBERG VARIATIONS.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Year recorded	Title	Label	Notes
1996	Will You Make My Soup Hot and Silver	Storyville	Trio, with Lennart Ginman (bass), Frands Rifbjerg (drums)
1998	Message from Bud	Storyville	Trio, with Lennart Ginman (bass), Frands Rifbjerg (drums)
1998?	Ed Thigpen Rhythm Features: It's Entertaintment	Stunt	with Ed Thigpen, Jesper Bodilsen
1999?	Six Hands, Three Minds, One Heart	Stunt	with Mads Vinding, Alex Riel
1999	The Butterfly Dream	Storyville	Solo piano
2000?	Lys På Himlen	Dacapo	with Christina Dahl
2000	Jazzpar 2000 Quintet	Storyville	Quintet, with Jorg Huke (trombone), Tony Coe (soprano sax, tenor sax, clarinet), Lars Danielsson (cello, bass), Aage Tanggaard (drums); in concert
2002?	The Sign	Stunt	with Arild Andersen, Patrice Heral
1996–2003	Solo Piano	Stunt	Solo piano
2003	Moon Water	Stunt	Trio, with Arild Andersen (bass), Patrice Heral (drums)
2003?	The Library Bar Concerts	Verve	with Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman
2004	Copenhagen-Aarhus	Edge	Solo piano
2004?	Blue Train	Marshmallow	Trio, with Lennart Ginman, Frands Rifbjerg
2005?	Ginman/Blachman/Dahl!	Universal	with Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman
2006?	God Bless the Child	Marshmallow	with Lennart Ginman, Frands Rifbjerg, Bob Rockwell
2006?	Charlie Butterfly	Stunt	Duo, with Allan Vegenfeldt
2006?	Det gyldne landskab	Private	with Christina Dahl
2006?	Short Fairytales	EmArcy	with Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen
2006?	Tribute to Night Train	Ploug Partnership
2007?	Bebopish Rubbish Rabbit	Marshmallow	Trio, with Lennart Ginman, Frands Rifbjerg
2008?	Minor Meeting	Grave News	Trio, with Jesper Lundgaard, Alex Riel
2008?	Humilitas	Storyville	Quartet, with Jesper Zeuthen (alto sax), Nils Davidsen (bass), Stefan Pasborg (drums)
2009?	In Our Own Sweet Way	Storyville	with Mads Vinding & Alex Riel
2011?	Synesthesia & Metropolis	Exlibris	with Ensemble MidtVest
2011?	Live at Tivoli/Copenhagen	Stunt	with Ed Thigpen, Jesper Bodilsen
2011?	Effata	Storyville	Solo piano
2011?	Metamorphosis	Storyville
2011	Live at Montmartre	Storyville	Duo, with Eddie Gomez (bass); in concert
2011	Space Is the Place	Storyville	Trio, with Arild Andersen (bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
2012?	Dreamchild: Solo Piano	Storyville	Solo piano
2013?	Soliloquy	Storyville	with Ensemble MidtVest
2013	Under the Rainbow	Storyville	Trio, with Arild Andersen (bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
2013?	Reverentia	Storyville
2013?	Soliluque	Exlibris
2013?	Papillon	Tiger	Solo piano
2014?	Bach – The Goldberg Variations for Prepared Piano	Tiger	Solo piano
2014?	The Myth and the Moth	Tiger	Solo piano
2014?	A Good Time	Storyville	Trio, with Lennart Ginman, Frands Rifbjerg
2015?	Grace	Tiger	Solo piano

As sideman

• Jazz-oratorium – I Den Lille By (Exlibris, 2006), with Klaus Rifbjerg
• The Element of Swing (Stunt, 2006), with Ed Thigpen, Joe Lovano, & Jesper Bodilsen
• The Poetic Principle (Cowbell, 2008), including Benjamin Koppel, Miroslav Vitous, Anders Koppel & Stefan Pasborg
• I Think It's Going to Rain (Stunt, 2012), Hanne Boel

External links

• Official site