Anders Koppel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Anders Koppel

Danish composer

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1947

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Profession: composer, film score composer

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Anders Koppel

  • Anders Koppel (born 17 July 1947 in Copenhagen) was a co-founder in 1967 of the rock group Savage Rose.
  • From 1976 to 2012 he was a member of the trio Bazaar.
  • He plays in the trio Koppel-Andersen-Koppel which includes his son, saxophone player Benjamin Koppel.
  • Koppel has twice received the Danish film award Robert for best film score (1994 and 1996).
  • His first daughter Sara Koppel is an animator and artist, and the second daughter Marie Carmen Koppel is a gospel, soul, and jazz singer. Koppel has composed music for eight ballets for the New Danish Dance Theatre and music for more than 150 movies, 50 theatrical plays and three musicals.
  • He has also composed more than 90 works for classical ensembles, chamber music and 20 concertos, among them two saxophone concertos and four marimba concertos. He played the piano as a child with his father, composer Herman D.
  • Koppel, and later clarinet with several television and concert appearances.
  • He began playing the organ in 1966.

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