Benita Haastrup (born 1964) is a drummer, percussionist, educator and composer in

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. She studied at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

, graduating in 1992. In 1998, she received the

Ben Webster Prize The Ben Webster Prize is an annual jazz award set up by the Ben Webster Foundation to honour Danish and American jazz musicians as well as other professionals active in the promotion of jazz in those countries. The American jazz musician Ben Webst ...

. Haastrup has been a member of

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's ''Percussion Paradise'' and of the all-female jazz group ''Sophisticated Ladies''. She has also performed with Richard B. Boone,

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Bent Jædig Bent Jædig (28 September 1935 – 9 June 2004) was a Danish jazz musician. He played tenor saxophone and flute. Born and raised in Copenhagen, Bent Jædig first studied clarinet before playing saxophone. In the 1950s, he settled in Germany and ...

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and

Jesper Thilo Jesper Thilo (born 28 November 1941) is a Danish jazz musician, mainly known as a tenor saxophonist, alto saxophonist and clarinetist. He is considered to be one of the top European straight-ahead jazz musicians of the post-1970 period. Ben ...

, among others. She has performed in the United States, China, Africa and throughout most of Europe. Haastrup teaches at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory.

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* 1964 births Living people Danish jazz drummers Danish music educators Place of birth missing (living people) Danish women composers 20th-century Danish composers 21st-century Danish composers Danish women music educators Women percussionists 20th-century women composers 21st-century women composers {{Denmark-music-bio-stub