Rasmus Henriksen

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Rasmus Henriksen is an award winning composer/arranger, trombone player and conductor living in Odense, Denmark. Graduated from the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in 2009 with trombone as his main instrument. He has released two albums as a leader: “Rasmus Henriksen Oktet fortolker Herman Bang” in 2018 with text by the Danish writer Herman Bang (1875-1912) and “Out of the Shadows” in 2016 with his own big band. Both albums contains original compositions and arrangements by it's leader. He has been increasingly used as arranger by several orchestras such as the Danish Radio Big Band, Roger Berg Big Band, Odense Symphony Orchestra, The Tivoli Big Band and Göteborg Wind Orchestra.

Adam Baruch from The Soundtrack of my life wrote about the album Out of the Shadows: “The arrangements are very elegant and interesting, typical of European Big Band approach, which treats the Big Band as a complex instrument. […] Very impressive for a debut album and definitely worth getting!”