August Rosenbaum


August Rosenbaum is a Danish composer, record producer and jazz pianist.

Biography

Composer August Rosenbaum has won two Danish Music Awards, performed at the acclaimed Sónar Festival, and has been shortlisted for both the Nordic Music Prize and the National Danish Critics’ Award. His album Vista from 2017 and EP Rasa were produced by Grammy nominated producer Robin Hannibal and won the award for "Best Alternative Album" at the 2018 Danish Music Awards. In 2021 Rosenbaum exhibited the large scale installation Celeste at Copenhagen Contemporary together with artists Lea Guldditte Hestelund, Ea Verdoner and Cæcilie Trier. The score for the exhibition was released on the Copenhagen-based label Posh Isolation.
Rosenbaum is also known for collaborations with artists like Quadron, Rhye and MØ, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and visual artist Jesper Just. He has commissioned works for film, theatre and performances at a.o. Palais De Tokyo, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Royal Danish Ballet.

Discography

Soundtrack

Music for film, performance, exhibitions

  • Piano Works by August Rosenbaum, 2024, DR Koncerthuset
  • Vores Fars Sol by Jasper Spanning, 2024
  • Interfears by Jesper Just, 2024, Galerie Perrotin Los Angeles / Nicolai Wallner Copenhagen
  • All Kinds of Love by Casper Sejersen, Tilda Swinton, 2024
  • Celeste by August Rosenbaum, Lea Guldditte Hestelund, Ea Verdoner, Cæcilie Trier, 2021, Copenhagen Contemporary.
  • Seminarium by Jesper Just, 2021, Gl. Holtegaard / Galerie Perrotin Tokyo
  • The City Cecilie Bahnsen campaign film
  • The Summit Cecilie Bahnsen campaign film
  • En Helt Almindelig Familie feature film by Malou Reymann
  • Corporealities by Jesper Just, 2020, Galerie Perrotin, New York.
  • Servitudes by Jesper Just, 2019, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Maat, Lisbon. Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen
  • Nomad by Jasper Spanning
  • Circuits by Jesper Just
  • Interpassitivities by Jesper Just
  • Credo Part II ft. Coco O ' by Jasper Spanning
  • Nebula ' by Andreas Emenius
  • Simon - a portrait of Simon Rosenbaum by Bente Milton
  • King Lear by Peter Langdal
  • In Your Arms feature film by Samanou A. Sahlstrøm
  • Interruption by Malou Reymann
  • Eliten by Thomas Daneskov
  • Black Rider by Robert Wilson, dir. Katrine Wiedemann
  • Laughter in The Dark by Kirsten Delholm
  • What Difference Does It Make by Ralf Schmerberg
  • Katalog 1 by Jasper Spanning
  • 16.5 Time by Malou Reymann
  • Talk Before It's Too Late by Daniel Kragh Jakobsen
  • Dem Man Elsker by Malou Reymann
  • Les Amours Perdues by Samanou A. Sahlstrøm
  • Backwater by Thomas Daneskov
  • Sirens of Chrome by Jesper Just

    Awards and nominations

Danish Music Awards
  • 2018 - Alternative album of the year - Vista
Danish Theatre Critics Award
  • 2017 - Best Performance
Göteborg Film Festival - Dragon Award
  • 2015 - Best Nordic Film ''
Danish Music Awards
  • 2014 - Best Jazz Composer
  • 2010 - Best New Jazz Artist
Danish Critics Choice Award
  • 2014 - Musician of the year
Nordic Music Prize
Danish Publishers Award
  • 2014 - Best Jazz Composer
Danish Arts Council
  • 2011-2013 - Den Unge Elite
Léonie Sonning Music Prize
  • 2011 - Young Talent Award