Marie Mørck
Jazz singer and composer
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Marie Mørck is one of the most promising vocal jazz talents in Denmark at the moment. Despite her young age, she impresses every listener, leaving a mark with her soft yet dark voice.
While she shows her deep-rooted love of traditional jazz, scatting her heart away, it does not keep her from pushing the music in her own modern direction.
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Marie Mørck, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (1994) started singing from early childhood, as she was accepted at the danish classical choir school Sankt Annæ Gymnasium. As a teenager, Marie was taught jazz piano by teachers Karen Bach and Rasmus Ehlers.
After graduating college in 2013, she was accepted at MGK Copenhagen (preschool for conservatory), here she studied with singer Nana Fagerberg for two years.
At MGK, Marie's interest in jazz singing increased, and in 2015, she auditioned and was accepted at the jazz school Skurups Folkhögskola in Sweden. She studied at the department of jazz tradition and improvisation for two years with teacher Almaz Yebio and graduated in 2017. By then, she was accepted at Syddansk Musikkonservatorium in Odense, where she just finished her bachelor in jazz singing as of June 2020.
In april 2018, she performed in the international competition "Riga Jazz Stage".
Marie Mørck Quartet has recently performed in Scandinavia, Estonia, France and China.
The group released their debut album "Fooling Around" this November which received very positive appraisals by both audience as well as reviewers, who called it "one of this years best European vocal jazz albums" (Jan Hocek, Jazzport (CZ)) and claimed that "this Nordic group creates a mosaic of dreams in a vibrant jazzworld." (Lasse Seger, Orkesterjournalen (SE)).
Their record has been played generously on the Danish jazz radio.
Besides her main project, Marie has been writing music with guitarist Kasper Björnsson since 2013, exploring samba and gypsy-jazz. Their released their debut record "Shooting Stars" in May 2020.
In 2017, she founded a duo with bass-player Lasse Mørck.
She keeps tending her passion for classical music in DUVE (Ensemble of Young Classical Singers), which she was accepted to last year.