Lotte Anker (born 1958) is a Danish

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, and

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. With pianist Marilyn Crispell, she serves as one of the co-leaders of the Copenhagen Art Ensemble.

Musical career

Anker was born in

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and studied music at Copenhagen University from 1980 to 1984. In 1988, she formed a quartet with piano player Mette Petersen, (the Lotte Anker / Mette Petersen Quartet). In 1992, they added trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. In 1995, she became a member of the free improvising trio Anker, Friis, Poulsen with Hasse Poulsen on guitar and Peter Friis Nielsen on bass. Since 1996, Anker and Ture Larsen have been co-leaders of the 12-piece orchestra Copenhagen Art Ensemble. She recorded the albums ''Triptych'', ''Live at the Loft'' and ''Floating Islands'' with pianist Craig Taborn, and drummer Gerald Cleaver.

Discography

* '' Beyond the Mist'' (

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, 1989) * ''Being'' (Stunt, 1993) * ''Infinite Blueness'' (Av-Art, 1996) * ''Poetic Justice'' ( Dacapo, 2001) * ''Six Row Barley'' ( Utech, 2005) * ''

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'' ( Leo, 2005) * '' Alien Huddle'' ( Intakt, 2008) * '' Live at the Loft'' (ILK, 2009) * '' Floating Islands'' (ILK, 2009) * '' Birthmark'' ( Clean Feed, 2013) * ''Squid Police'' (Konvoj, 2014) with Jakob Riis * ''What River Is This'' (ILK, 2014) * ''Edge of the Light'' (Intakt, 2014) with Fred Frith * ''Plodi'' (Klopotec, 2017) * ''His Flight's at Ten'' (Iluso, 2018) with Pat Thomas,

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, Ståle Liavik Solberg With Tim Berne * '' Open, Coma'' ( Screwgun, 2001) With

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'' (Intuition, 2017) With Fred Frith Trio * ''

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'' (Intakt, 2021)

References

External links

Artist's website
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