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Genre
  
Jazz

Benita Haastrup

Albums
  
De Små Synger: Jubilæumsudgave, Sunrise, Going North, Trio, Something About Heroes

Record labels
  
Stunt Records, Gateway Music, Calibrated

Similar
  
Jens Skou Olsen, Christina von Bülow, Hugo Rasmussen, Fuzzy

Benita Haastrup (born 1964) is a drummer, percussionist, educator and composer in Denmark.

She studied at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, graduating in 1992. In 1998, she received the Ben Webster Prize. Haastrup has been a member of Marilyn Mazur's Percussion Paradise and of the all-female jazz group Sophisticated Ladies. She has also performed with Richard B. Boone, Idrees Sulieman, Johnny Griffin, Muhal Richard Abrams, Duke Jordan, Bent Jædig, John Tchicai, Fred Hopkins and Jesper Thilo, among others. She has performed in the United States, China, Africa and throughout most of Europe.

Haastrup teaches at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory.

Songs

Mæ - siger det lille lamDe Små Synger: Jubilæumsudgave · 1998
Alverdens fugle og dyrDe Små Synger: Jubilæumsudgave · 1998
Nede i fru Hansens kælderDe Små Synger: Jubilæumsudgave · 1998

References

Benita Haastrup Wikipedia


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