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BIO

Kasper Winding , born in Copenhagen Denmark.
Got his first professional job as a composer at 14 writing the score for the Danish cult film “The Beach Revolution”. Same year he joined the Danish Radio Orchestra as a drummer under the direction of Palle Mikkelborg. Since then there has been no looking back. He has released 11 records!

MUSIC

‘Entrance to Entrance’ with the band Entrance. “KICK” , “Attitudes and broken hearts ” , “Swing ” with the band KICK.‘ “Daddy’s in rare form tonight”, “No5”, “No6”, “Uno Deux Drei Four”, ” Voila” under his own name .  “Vibe-o-gram” under the name “Domestika” “Speechless” (UK top 5) with Lois and Oscar Fullone under the name Mish Mash.  “Musicality” With Thomas Blachman. In 2012 he joined the band TRIPEO with first single out in Feb 2013. In 2016 he released together with Lola Delon “Fuck Dance Lets Art”

HAS WRITTEN for:

Royal Danish symphony orchestra,  National Orchestra of Bratislava, Danish Radio Symphony orchestra. Also wrote songs, beats, doodles for Danish artist Caroline Henderson, Lois, Lis Sorensen, Maya Albana + Lola Delon, Kanye West. In 2004 he was commissioned to write the music/sound collage for “Tivoli Illumination” an installation for music, water and light, commissioned by Tivoli gardens in Denmark.

as PRODUCER

He has worked with artists such as:  CV Jørgensen, Per Nørgaard, Mew, Jonas Bjerre, Steen Jørgensen, Sebastien Tellier (UK single « Divine » together with Manuel de Home-Christo). Caroline Henderson, Lois, Maya Albana, Susi Hyldgaar.

REMIXED artists like:

Hypno Love, Efterklang, Sebastien Tellier, Acid Washed , Kavinsky. 

PLAYED

the ode triangle or snare drum with people like Phillip Glass, Barry White, Abba, Terry Reily, The Rolling Stones , Frank Zappa,… And for 3 of his teenage years he played drums with any jazz artist that happened to pass through Copenhagen and needed assistance such as: Joachim Kuhn, Dexter Gordon, Phillip Catharine… 

FILM SCORES

He has written 20 scores for film and TV. Among them: THE FLYING DEVILS, ONCES A THE COP By Anders Refn, EPIDEMIC by Lars von Trier, A GREAT DAY AT THE BEACH by Stellan Ollson, ON OUR OWN and JUST LIKE HOME, THE RIOT CLUB by Lone Scherfig, THE ONION FIELD by Joseph Wambaugh  (as ghost writer), FROM HEART TO HAND, THE PATRIOTS and P.O.V  by Tomas Gislason, THE MAN WHO COULDN’T OPEN DOORS by Poul Arden, SOIS SAGE by Juliette Garcias, MOON WALKERS by  Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, THE SALVATION by Kristian Levring.

FILM/Videos ( as  Director)

I GAVE HIM HIS LIFE ( Short film 2012) CHINATOWN TO CHINATOWN ( Music Video for Efterklang/Kasper Winding Project. 2012) SLAM CHICKS ( Short film commisond for the Aarhus bienale in Denmark 2010) JUST WALK ( with Paul Arden .music video for DOMESTIKA 2001)

THEATER

Directed the play ‘ A woman alone’ by Dario Fo and Franca Rame at The Tristan Bates Theater. In the west end London and Luxenburg 1998 Co directed/ created ‘ EXIT ‘2000 1999 and curated the Play/Performance’ Love stories ‘2006 both in Copenhagen.

BALLET MUSIC

THE TWINS, by Peter Martins/New York city Ballet TOUCHING PROVES ME LONESOME and NAVA RAMA by Andonis Forniadakis /Opera National de Lyon. SYLFIDEN by Alexander Kolpin  at Øster Gasvœrk – Theatre in Copenhagen. In the past couple of years he has seen film and photography as an extention of his music and is working to merge these 3 things into his own thing.

DANCING ON A DIME
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