Andreas Skår Winther (born 10 April 1991 in

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, Norway) is a

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musician (drums), the younger brother of jazz guitarist Christian Skår Winther (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

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and his guitarist brother

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Honors

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

: Winner of Jazzintro at the 2016

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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 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

: ''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 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 Male jazz musicians {{Norway-musician-stub