Cecilie Grundt

Cecilie Grundt is a Norwegian saxophonist and composer, educated at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim. She has toured extensively with her own bands, and has released five solo albums: 'Contemporary Old School' (2019), 'Order and Chaos' (2020), 'Cecilie Grundt & Vigleik Storaas' (2022), 'Live at Dokkhuset' (2024) and 'Illuminate' (2024).

Concert highlights from her career include Cecilie Grundt Quintet + Nils-Olav Johansen in 2019, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Come Shine at The Big Challenge Festival 2019, Cecilie Grundt Quintet at the BMW Welt Jazz Awards 2020 in Munich, the Alternatilla All-Woman Jazz Band at the Alternatilla International Jazz Festival 2021 in Mallorca, and Cecilie Grundt Quartet + Knut Riisnæs in 2022.

“Cecilie Grundt’s eclectic arrangements offer a taste of Norway’s innovative jazz scene” - DOWNBEAT

“Superior modern jazz from the saxophonist” - JAZZ JOURNAL

“Cecilie Grundt has something very special as a composer, band leader and soloist” - TOR HAMMERØ

"A blindfolded listener could be forgiven for thinking the session might have taken place fifty years earlier at a studio in Hackensack, New Jersey" – TEXTURA