Biography & CV
Short Bio
Mia Dyberg is a berlin-based alto saxophonist, improviser and composer. The Mia Dyberg Trio presents post-jazz with melodic fragmentation and prominent use of silence, alongside Asger Thomsen & Simon Forchhammer. Ticket (2018) and Timestretch (2023) were released by Clean Feed Records and gained recognition from European and North American media, including a 4-star review in Downbeat magazine. She is in the improv-collective Klub Demboh and plays regularly with Axel Dörner. She performed with Susana Santos Silva, Clayton Thomas, Oscar Noriega and Rieko Okuda among others. Recent highlights include playing at Portalegre Jazz Fest and joining Centrifugal Quartet.
‘Mia Dyberg is a saxophonist who is at home in free improvisation. But not without being “head and tail” in what she does. Dyberg’s playing is controlled and easy to grasp. She masters the free, but also has a good feel for jazz history’ – Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts.
CV 2025 I Mia Dyberg
Artistic education: Master’s degree ‘2015, Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium, Copenhagen, Denmark Websites www.miadyberg.com, www.miadybergtrio.com
Performed at for example: Akut Festival, Portalegre Jazz Festival & Elevate Festival
Mia Dyberg (b. 1986) is a Danish-Swedish alto saxophonist, improviser and composer based in Berlin since 2016. In her music, she often uses motifs, with an aim to tell stories, drawing on jazz roots with a particularly Scandinavian sense of melancholy. She is a permanent member of the dadaist improvisation collective Klub Demboh and plays regularly with Axel Dörner & Antonio Borghini.
Since 2017, she has toured and composed for the Mia Dyberg Trio, presenting post-jazz with melodic fragmentation and prominent use of silence. Collaborating with Asger Thomsen and Simon Forchhammer. Albums, ›Ticket‹ (2018) & ›Timestretch‹ (2023), released by Clean Feed Records, have gained recognition from European & North American media – including a 4-star review in Downbeat Magazine – and positions them as an innovative voice within European saxophone trios. Their subtle balance between density and intensity results in a fluid and coherent musical experience.
She has played concerts with e.g. Susana Santos Silva, Per-Åke Holmlander, Clayton Thomas, Mike Reed, Rieko Okuda, Tristan Honsinger, Kamilla Kovacs, André Vida, Michael Evans, Sofia Borges, Tobias Delius, Herb Robertson, Camilla Nebbia, Oscar Noriega, Kresten Osgood & Isabell Rössler.
She recognises the importance of collective, long-lasting projects. Here are some co-lead highlights: The Community, an improvisation collective, still active & based in DK. Co-founder (2014) & curator. Glasscut (LP Kassiani Records, May 2025) by Okuda/Dyberg (started playing in 2017). SORBD, HobbyHouse (Duo with Axel Filip); CD Release November 21st 2025 Relative Pitch Records. Participation in other ensembles, for example Raed Yassin’s Phantom Orchestra
‘Mia Dyberg is a saxophonist who is at home in free improvisation. But not without being “head and tail” in what she does. Dyberg’s playing is controlled and easy to grasp. She masters the free, but also has a good feel for jazz history’ – Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts.
‘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
Selected artistic highlights:
2025 Portalegre Jazz Fest, Mia Dyberg Trio, Portugal. Joining Centrifugal Quartet (Jeb Bishop, Michael Griener, Antonio Borgini, Mia Dyberg) Phantom Orchestra LP release Morphine Raum & Pre-release at Berghain, Berlin, Germany.
2024 Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, SORBD, Jazz Atelier, Austria
2024 Work Grant Composer-union, Autor, Denmark
2023 Berlin Jazz Fest guest with Natural Information Society (Chicago based renowned band) 2023 Timestretch CD released on Clean Feed Records
2022 Work Grant Musikfonds, Germany for Solo project “Saxophone and news”
2021 Wide Pointillism album Matthias Müller + SHARE Staff Meetings in Italy and Portugal.
2020 Workgrant Statens Kunstfond, Denmark and Project Grant Musikfonds Germany
2020
Live in Oslo Digital Album with Steve Heather and Asger Thomsen
2020 Klub Demboh plays Sun Ra Open Air Jazz am Kaisersteg, Jazzkeller, Berlin
2019 SWR2 Interview Jazz-Neuerscheinungen
and Mia Dyberg Trio live at AKUT Festival
2019 Solo at Elevate Festival, Graz, Austria
2019
Downbeat-Magazin 4* Review CD Ticket!
Photo: Peter Gannushkin
Selected Festival appearances
Ulrichberger Kaleidophon
Akut Festival
Berlin Jazzfestival
Jazzfestival Saalfelden
Umeå Jazz Festial
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Selected 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
