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Danish
composer
and instrumentalist Jakob Draminsky Højmark has since 1986
worked in the fields of european improvised music, opera and
intermedia.
Born 1959 in Copenhagen, Denmark has he
since 1977 been active as musician and composer in most of
Europe with residences in London, Paris, West Berlin and Barcelona.
From 1986 he has been involved in European improvised music as
woodwind instrumentalist (bass clarinet and sopranino
saxophone).
He has done composition and instrumental studies with Pierre
Dørge (Copenhagen), Wolfgang
Fuchs (Berlin) and Gabriel Brncic (Barcelona) as well as he has
participated in
electroacoustic work-shops at DIEM (DK), IRCAM(F) and PHONOS
(Sp).
He has received commissions for works for instrumental groups
and theatres, as well as grants from various national Danish art
foundations.
Among his recent collaborators are french
composer Pascal Comelade, REAO w/Mark Cunningham and GAT,
the danish noise duo Tzarina Q Cut w/Jørgen Teller, Koji Asano and DJ Mousedown.
In the field of opera he has done several
collaborations with the danish operagroup Musikteatret Undergrunden
and the danish poet Peter Laugesen
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