Bands and Projects
Bands as leader:
Bévort 3
Known for her intense and creative approach to
the saxophone, multi award-winning
instrumentalist, composer and orchestra leader
Pernille Bévort's trio project Bévort 3 was recently
named 'Ensemble of the Year' at 2022's Danish
Music Awards.
Their highly anticipated new
record 'Northbound' is set to release on February
9th. 2024.
Pernille's trio Bévort 3 moves from the cool swinging to the bluesy and Nordic
sounding in a sparkling trio format, which has earned them recognition both at
home and abroad.
In this trio with Morten Ankarfeldt and Espen Laub von Lillienskjold, Bévort
has found a forum where she can express herself freely and imaginative with her
strong 'playmates' Morten Ankarfeldt on bass and Espen Laub von Lillienskjold on drums.
The trio has been diligent with the recordings in recent years. On Fire was
released in 2021 and the live album 'Live 2020-2021' was released in 2022. Both
albums were nominated for a Danish Music Awards Jazz as Release of the Year in
2021 and 2022.
Radio Bévort
Radio Bévort is a colorful ensemble where different
nationalities, inspirations and instruments meet. The compositions are inspired
by diverse genres of music and indeed by life itself.
In the music you can feel the flavor of tango and jazz and also find very free
passages combined with very thoroughly written arrangements.
The band's line-up is rather unconventional with a rhythm section of drums,
bass, guitar and accordion/piano combined with 4 woodwinds that "doubles". This
combined with the different compositions and arrangements composed especially
for this ensemble, gives the group a special sound with a timbre colored by the
woodwind arrangements and the accordion/piano.
Pernille's latest release with Radio Bévort, BLIK (2020), was nominated for a Danish Music Awards Jazz in the cotegory Composer of the Year 2020.
In the line-up you find some of the best musicians on
the Danish jazz scene of today:
Pernille Bévort: tenor- and soprano saxophone
Mariane Bitran: C flute and alto flute
Kasper Wagner: alto saxophone and clarinet (soprano saxophone)
Ole Visby: tenor saxophone and bass clarinet
Marie Louise Schmidt: piano
Morten Ankarfeldt: bass
Bjørn Heebøll: drums
Bands as side 'man':
Sisters of Jazz
Maluba Orchestra
Musik, Eventyr og Unoder
Other ensembles and albums