For info about CDs with Kristian Bugge (Baltic Crossing, Kings of Polka, Karl Skaarup, Mette Kathrine), visit the record company: Go Danish Folk Music or order the CDs from folkshop.dk
Kristian Bugge was born in 1979. After graduating from school, he studied five month at Raduga Art College in Moscow where he was taught by Mikhail Tsinman, the first violinist of The Bolshoi Theatre. In the spring of 2000, he went to study at the Malung Folk High School, Sweden. Here he received six month of lessons in traditional dance from Ami Petterson followed by fiddle classes with the distinguished Swedish fiddler Kalle Almlöf. It was an inspiring year which again confirmed his love of traditional music. He spent the Spring of 2001 in beautiful Stockholm, Sweden and later that year he was admitted to the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, Denmark as a major in folk music.
In recent years Kristian has met with many young European musicians, among them the members of the English/Finnish/Danish band Baltic Crossing. In 2004 Kristian Bugge became the first musician ever to receive the Radium Award. The prize is awarded by the team behind the music programme Radium at the Danish Radio's P2.
Kristian's début CD was released summer 2005. It was nominated in four categories at The Danish Music Award - Folk 2006, in which Kristian received the awards as Danish debut of the year and Danish Folk Instrumentalist of the year!
Sing Out!, volume 50 2 summer 2006: ...a remarkable impressive debut ... Bugge is a superb fiddle player, with a great control and tone, and very mature sence of tradition ... What's most evident here, apart from Bugge's great technical ability - which is also true of every other musician here - is his relentless questing for music. He's as eager as a puppy to absorb sounds, to discover traditions and explore them. More than that, he's blessed with a powerful imagination in terms of arrangements. Welcome a great new Danish fiddler; he's going to be around for a long time. -CN
fROOTS , october 2005 by Andrew Cronshaw: very strong debut album by a fiddler of great facility and lift who..s obviously going to be, indeed already is, a major mover as the Danish roots wave gathers momentum...
"...a fine technical player, and is gifted with an instinctive and highly developed sense of traditional music, rare in a musician his age." - Polskie Radio SA
"He won Denmark's first Radium Award, and he's a seriously good fiddle player, whether performing with trans-national group Baltic Crossing or others. There's a prodigious talent here, with a very strong sense of tradition, and he'll be a major force in Danish music." - Global Village Idiot
Ja, det ska verkligen bli kul! Fick du de nya engelskorna jag mailade? Vi kan väl köra vårt lilla engelske-set från förra gången i vilket fall? Vill du köra melodi eller stämma? Eller vi kan kanske skifta...
I am happy to have you among my friends. Thanks for jamming after the concert in Roskilde. See you somehow, maybe in Poland. You know, there's always a great time here :D
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