Benita Haastrup (born 1964) is a drummer, percussionist, educator and composer in
Denmark
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.
She studied at the
Rhythmic Music Conservatory in
Copenhagen
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, graduating in 1992. In 1998, she received the
Ben Webster Prize
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. Haastrup has been a member of
Marilyn Mazur
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's ''Percussion Paradise'' and of the all-female jazz group ''Sophisticated Ladies''. She has also performed with
Richard B. Boone,
Idrees Sulieman
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,
Johnny Griffin
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,
Muhal Richard Abrams
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Duke Jordan
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Jordan was born in New York and raised in Brooklyn where he attended Boys High School. An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regul ...
,
[ Bent Jædig, ]John Tchicai
John Martin Tchicai ( ; 28 April 1936 – 8 October 2012) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer.
Biography
Tchicai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a Danish mother and a Congolese father. The family moved to Aarhus, where he s ...
, Fred Hopkins and Jesper Thilo
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, among others. She has performed in the United States, China, Africa and throughout most of Europe.
Haastrup teaches at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory.[
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References
External links
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1964 births
Living people
Danish jazz drummers
Women drummers
Danish music educators
Place of birth missing (living people)
Danish jazz composers
Danish women jazz musicians
20th-century Danish composers
21st-century Danish composers
Danish women music educators
Women percussionists
20th-century women composers
21st-century Danish women composers
Ben Webster Prize recipients
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