Artist Info: Irene Becker

MA in music, degree earned at the Department of Musicology at University of Copenhagen in 1981.

Studies at the Creative Music Studio, in Woodstock, New York in 1980 with, among others, vibraphonist Karl Berger, percussionist Nana Vasconcelos and kora-player Foday M. Suso.

Studies in composition with Bob Brookmeyer at The Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in 1996-98.

Played from 1975-80 in one of the first of the Danish women’s rock groups, Hos Anna, and in groups like Caracas and Marilyn Mazur’s Primiband. [read more...]