Asger Nissen

The Danish alto saxophonist, Asger Nissen, moved to Berlin in the fall of 2017. With a personal strong sound of emotional, energetic, curious and yet controlled and versatile style of playing, Asger Nissen has already established a strong name within the Jazz and Avant Garde circles of Berlin and Germany, playing and having performed with artists like Jim Black, Jonas Westergaard, Otis Sandsjö, Bernhard Meyer, Wanja Slavin, Felix Henkelhausen, Uli Kempendorff, Christopher Dell etc.

“Nissen is an excellent improviser who knows how to combine abstraction with singable emotions. Especially his composing is a strong trademark of his, with long dramaturgical arches that reveal a certain spiritual closeness to Tim Berne.” - JazzThing, 2020.

He has performed and toured in a broad variety of countries; Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, England, and the US, as well as having performed at the major european jazz festivals: Jazz Baltica, North Sea Jazz, and Copenhagen Jazzfestival.

Before moving to Berlin, Asger Nissen was an active voice of the Copenhagen Jazz scene, amongst others with the award winning Avant Garde Sextet, ALAWARI.

Asger Nissen is currently doing his Bachelor studies at the prestigious Jazz Institut Berlin (JIB)/ Universität der Künste. At the JIB, he has been under close and personal guidance by Professors Greg Cohen (US, bass), Peter Weniger (DE, saxophone), and Douglas Weiss (US, bass) as his main educators.