Simon Toldam

SIMON TOLDAM ... ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE FIGURES ON THE BUSTLING SCANDINAVIAN IMPROVISED MUSIC SCENE.” - PETER MARGASAK, DOWNBEAT    BIO The award winning Simon Toldam is one of Scandinavia’s most exciting and distinguished musicians, having released 14 albums as a leader and co-leader. He is a five-time winner of Danish Music Awards - among these “Best Album of the Year” at Danish Music Awards Jazz 2019 - and is a member of the Danish jazz and contemporary music recording label, ILK Music. In 2015, he received the prestigious 3-year grant from The Danish Arts Foundation.  Toldam started his first trio at the age of 9, and has since then been leading and co-leading several groups playing jazz, improv and beyond. Composition and improvisation has always been – and still are - the mainpillars in the musical carrier of this versatile player. He has composed music for orchestras of various size all the way from trio to 20-piece orchestras, for film, theatre, contemporary dance, and has been official Festival Composer at Cph Jazzfestival . Besides leading/co-leading a number of groups, Toldam is in demand on the scene as sideman in various, jazz/new music settings, and as teacher on the conservatories in DK. Toldam main focus is currently leading his own trio and the new constellation Riedel/Berg/Toldam, both orchestras presenting the music of Toldam, showing all of his orchestrational abilities and his intriguing way of conveying his own music.