Asgeir Asgeirsson

Asgeir started to play guitar in his teens under the influence of rock and blues music, Asgeir studied classical guitar for four years before he began his studies at FÍH School of music were he graduated from jazzdepartment in spring of 1999. In his early years Asgeir played with a lot of bands and musicians including rockband Soldogg and funkband Saelgaetisgerdin. Asgeir moved to Amsterdam in the fall of 1999 were he studied at the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam with Henk Sprenger for two years. In Holland he played with Jesse Van Ruller and Michiel Borstlap which are among the best known jazzmusicians in Holland, Asgeir also performed on the Dutch national radio. Asgeir has also taken private lessons from people like Brad Shepik, Steve Cardenas, Karsten Houmark, Justin Haynes and Jonathan Kreisberg. In Iceland Asgeir has played a big variety of music: rock, funk, blues and jazz, performed on the radio and on tv. Asgeir has been nominated to the Icelandic musicawards both as a guitarist and for his compositions. Asgeir has also imported people like Seamus Blake, Ingrid Jensen and Chris Cheek for the Reykjavik Jazzfestival, Cheek who also plays on Asgeirs solo debutalbum being released in September 2006. In 2005 Asgeir played at the Copenhagen Jazzfestival with octett og singer Ragnheidur Grondal. In spring 2006 Asgeir worked in the Reykjavik theater on the opera Carmen by Bizet where they had changed it to a musical. Ásgeir is currently working as a teacher at FÍH School of music and a very active musician and a composer.