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Christina von Bülow

Christina von Bülow (born 1962) is the daughter of guitarist Fritz von Bülow. She graduated from the Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen in 1990 and studied with Stan Getz at his home in Malibu a year before his death. Getz became a mentor for the young saxophonist, but the legendary alto player Lee Konitz has also been a huge influence on Christina’s lyrical approach to music. Since the late 1980’s, she has led her own groups, often made up of prominent musicians from the Danish jazz scene: guitarist Jacob Fischer, pianists Ben Besiakov, Horace Parlan and Søren Kristiansen and bassist Hugo Rasmussen. But she has also found many collaborators in Sweden: clarinetist Putte Wickman, guitarist Rune Gustafsson, bassist Georg Riedel – but especially trumpeter Jan Allan and tenor saxophonist Bernt Rosengren, with whom she has recorded and toured. She has recorded several albums in her own name and was nominated for a Danish Music Award for “West of the Moon” in 2001 and “A Prima Vez” in 2004. She was awarded the JASA Prize in 1994, the Ben Webster Prize in 2002 and the Palæ Prize in 2009.