Christian Meaas Svendsen

Christian Meaas Svendsen is a Norwegian double bassist and composer, born and raised in Kongsberg. He studied jazz and improvisation at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and works across free improvisation, jazz and contemporary music. He leads the ensemble Nakama, runs the collective label Nakama Records, and keeps a solo practice on double bass centred on the physical link between body, bow and instrument. Svendsen began in the Kongsberg Big Band and later played in Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit (First Blow and Erta Ale, both 2014), Momentum, Duplex and the Ayumi Tanaka Trio.