Ida Duelund Hansen

DOUBLE BASS, VOICE & COMPOSER

Ida Duelund Hansen is a Danish bass player, vocalist and composer who is currently based in Melbourne. She specialises in jazz, experimental and pop music performance and composition.

Since she moved to Melbourne to study at the Northern Melbourne Institute of Tafe in 2009, Ida has performed as part of several festivals, including the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival (with bass player Jonathan Heilbron), Melbourne International Women's Jazz Festival (with Diana Clark and Dough De Vries) and the Quiet Music Festival.

In Denmark Ida has performed as part of Copenhagen International Jazz Festival, Vinterjazz Festival and performed at venues including Copenhagen Jazz House, Operaen (Christiania) and Trinitatis Natkirke. She also featured on the record 'Verdens Navle' (compositions by Jørgen Emborg) released by Sundance Records (Copenhagen).

"Ida...demonstrate(s) an expressive continuum in harmonic and timbral composition from unnerving baroque contrapuntal dissonance to the sickly crackle of cotton thread over a double bass string." RealTime Arts

Chamber Made Opera projects:

Minotaur The Island >> Ariadne (2011)
Blood >> composer, double bass and voice (2011)
Another Lament >> composer, double bass and voice (2010)

Photo © Paul Dunn