Biography & CV
Berlin-based saxophonist Mia Dyberg plays in the fields of jazz and free improvisation. Her unique melodic expression stems from sound experiments & Scandinavian melancholy. She composes for the Mia Dyberg Trio, which plays free jazz with narrative motifs & time-stretch grooves. Clean Feed Records released Ticket! which received 4 stars from Downbeat Magazine. She is a founding member of the dadaist improvisation collective Klub Demboh and plays regularly with Axel Dörner and Michael Griener, among others. ‘Mia Dyberg is a saxophonist who is well inside the free improvised. But not without having “head and tail” in what she does. Dyberg’s playing is controlled and easy-to-grasp. She has full control of the free but also has a good sense for jazz history’ – Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts.
Photo: Peter Gannushkin
Selected Festival appearances
Ulrichberger Kaleidophon
Akut Festival
Berlin Jazzfestival
Jazzfestival Saalfelden
Umeå Jazz Festial
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Selected Press quotes
’The saxophonist’s adroit phrasing and tonal flexibility express a variety of moods and textures quite clearly, and her melodic imagination ensures that each gesture lands with emotion.’ —Bill Meyer Downbeat Magazine
‘It’s always good to welcome new talent to the music scene, especially when the artists have their own strong vision of what music should and could sound like. And Mia Dyberg clearly fits into that category. Next to her own musical vision, she has the additional strength of being very open to perform with musicians with completely different approaches, and from different cultural and instrumental backgrounds, or even age groups. She demonstrates this openness with her Duo Scrapbook Album Series‘ by Stef The Free Jazz Collective
‘I don’t know how Mia Dyberg does it, but many times you forget that it’s a saxophone she is playing. It is so much more than that’ – Lisa Appelqvist, Kristianstadbladet
‘(…)Dyberg’s sense of freedom and expansiveness. Dyberg is a fountain of creativity and always searching for collaborators who can go along with her on those bold adventures to the land of the unexpected she takes.’ – Greg Cohen
‘Both Dyberg and Robertson utilized a range of ancillary sound-making devices and techniques, stretching into AACM/CMIF/ BAG-inspired passages of deep conversation, playful chatter and bluesy storytelling’ —Clifford Allen, New York City Jazz Record
Academic Background and more detailed Bio:
Mia Dyberg (b, 1986) is a danish & swedish saxophonist, improviser and composer currently residing in Berlin, Germany, where she works as a freelance musician since 2016. She performed with improv-musicians such as Tristan Honsinger, Steve Heather, André Vida, Rieko Okuda, Håvard Wiik, Matthias Müller and Tobias Delius. She is a founding member of the dadaist improvisation collective Klub Demboh and plays regularly with Carina Khorkhordina, Joel Grip, Marie Takahashi & others since 2017.
She performed i.e. in New York, Alexandria and Stockholm with musicians as Jeb Bishop[US], Herb Robertson[US], Clayton Thomas [AU], Marina Dzukljev [SERBIA] Niklas Barnö [SE] Oscar Noriega[US], Kamilla Kovacs [DK] , Christian Balvig [DK] and Michael Evans[US].
She leads the Mia Dyberg Trio which plays Free Jazz with narrative motifs & timestretch-grooves, compositions by Dyberg, Thomsen or collectively improvised. Clean Feed Records released the debut album Ticket! which received brilliant reviews in jazz magazines such as 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine(USA). The trio was selected for 12 points, Dublin & AKUT Festival 2019 in Germany. Clean Feed Records released the trio’s latest album Timestretch (2023), which received 4 stars in jazz.pt with founding member Asger Thomsen on double bass and Simon Forchhammer on drums.
Mia is also a part of the Copenhagen jazz/improv. scene and holds a Master Diploma in Music ‘2015 from the Conservatory of Copenhagen, where she studied with Jakob Anderskov, Søren Kjærgaard among others. She co-founded the international improvisers collective The Community.