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Dan Peter Sundland

Born in Oslo, Norway, 15th July, 1986. Grew up in a village outside Trondheim, Norway called Børsa.

Started playing bass at age 14, studied with bass players Andreas Bergsland (the first two years) and Mattis Kleppen (the next seven). Attended the jazz department of Sund Folk College 2005-06. Attained a bachelors degree in performing jazz at the jazz department of NTNU Music Institute in Trondheim in 2010. Attained a European Jazz Masters degree (EUJAM) at the jazz department of NTNU Music Institute in Trondheim in 2013 with exchange to Berlin Jazz Institute (Spring 2012) and Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen (Fall 2012).

Teachers include Bjørn Alterhaug, Mattis Kleppen, Ole Morten Vågan, Mats Eilertsen, Michael F. Duch and Tor Haugerud.

Awards

SpareBank1 JazzTalent 2013 Geir Digernes' Memorial Award 2012

Gear

1965 Gretsch 7071 Electric bass w/added Highlander piezo pickup
MarkBass Little Mark III


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Album Review

Stephen Gauci: Live At Sowieso, Berlin

Read "Live At Sowieso, Berlin" reviewed by John Sharpe


Tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci cuts a busy figure in his native New York City. But with Live At Sowieso, Berlin he brings his brand of unbridled energy to the hotbed of free improv which is the titular German city with striking results. He retains one familiar face for the journey in the shape of drummer Kevin Shea, a longstanding member of the reedman's trio, who is still best known for his tenure in the anarchic Mostly Other People Do The ...

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Dan Peter Sundland: Elevenette

Read "Elevenette" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Eleventte is the ambitious debut album of Norwegian, 27-year- old bassist Dan Peter Sundland that attempts to merge compositions for chamber ensembles, improvised segments and texts from contemporary American poets. Sundland's group consists of four classically-trained musicians, plus seven musicians with backgrounds in modern jazz and free improvisation, most notably tenor saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg and drummer Hans Hulbækmo, both members of Paulsberg Concept, and trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, one of the most promising, busiest Norwegian free improvisers and a member ...

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"Sundland's electric bass is like few others, with lines and tone qualities inspired by accustic bass players, at the same time as he with great imagination employs the guitar-like possibilities of the elctric bass in the orchestral palette." Petter Petterson, Jazznytt(N), no6 2011
Primary Instrument

Bass, electric

Location

Berlin

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

OHRENSCHMAUS, Rats...

Lumo Records
2020

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Dialogism

Inexhaustible Editions
2020

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Loplop

Gotta Let It Out
2019

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Elevenette

Ora Fonogram
2014

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