Henrik Bolberg Pedersen
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Henrik Bolberg Pedersen is a Danish trumpeter and flugelhorn
Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...

 player with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra.

Collaborations

Pedersen has also been credited as a session musician
Session musician
Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

 for notable artists including (but not limited to):
  • Tommy Flanagan
    Tommy Flanagan
    Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered for his work with Ella Fitzgerald...

  • Geri Allen
    Geri Allen
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  • Tony Coe
    Tony Coe
    Anthony George Coe is a composer and jazz musician who plays clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor saxophone.Coe began his performing career playing with Humphrey Lyttelton's band from 1957 to 1962...

  • Django Bates
    Django Bates
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Awards

Pedersen placed first in the 1987 edition of the biennial European Jazz Competition.

External links

  • Henrik Pedersen mini-biography at Danmarks Radio
    Danmarks Radio
    DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...

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