Andreas Skår Winther (born 10 April 1991 in

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, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (drums), the younger brother of jazz guitarist

Christian Skår Winther Christian Skår Winther (born 8 May 1989 in Ålesund, Norway) is a Norwegians, Norwegian musician (guitar) and the older brother of jazz drummer Andreas Skår Winther (b. 1991), known from bands like Monkey Plot, Listen to Girl, Ich Bin N!ntendo ...

(b. 1989), and is known from bands like Megalodon Collective and Left Exit, Mr K.

Career

Winther is currently studying jazz and improvised music in the jazz program at

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, and is active in several bands in the jazz and improvisation scene in Norway and Sweden. With the band Left Exit, Mr K, a duo project including Karl Hjalmar Nyberg (saxophones), he released the album ''Left Exit, Mr. K Featuring Michael Duch & Klaus Holm'' (2015). In 2015 he also played on the album ''Megalodon'' by Megalodon Collective. He has also given a series of solo drum performances live in Norway and performed in trio with Natalie Sandtorv and his guitarist brother

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Honors

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

: Winner of Jazzintro at the 2016

Moldejazz Molde International Jazz Festival (MIJF) or Moldejazz (established 1961 in Molde Municipality) takes place annually in July, and is known as one of the oldest jazz festivals in Europe. It was initiated by the local Storyville Jazz Club. Since 1 ...

with Megalodon Collective

Discography

;With Left Exit, Mr. K *2015: ''Left Exit, Mr. K Featuring Michael Duch & Klaus Holm'' (Clean Feed) ;With Megalodon Collective *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

: ''Megalodon'' (Gigafon Records)

References

External links

MEGALODON COLLECTIVE LIVE
on YouTube
Andreas Winther Solo @ Bråkesund
at GuitarGaze.co.uk 21st-century Norwegian drummers Norwegian jazz drummers Norwegian male drummers Norwegian percussionists Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni Norwegian composers Norwegian male composers 1991 births Living people Musicians from Ålesund 21st-century Norwegian male musicians Norwegian male jazz musicians {{Norway-musician-stub