Composing & Performing Musician
Cecilie started singing at the age of ten when she started attended local choirs. Throughout her teenage years she took private singing lessons which introduced her to classical, jazz, folk and pop music.
In 2000 she started a BA (Hons) in Jazz Studies at Leeds College of Music, Leeds, U.K. During the three year course her main focus became performance and compositional styles within jazz and improvised music. It was in the autumn of 2000 Cecilie came up with the concept of Expazz (Later called Periwinkle) and recruited pianist Rob Barron, double bassist, Matt Deegan, now replaced by Audun Ellingsen and drummer Henrik Salvesen, now replaced by Ulrik Ibsen Thorsrud. By March 2002, Cecilie had composed all the musical material for the quartet and Expazz had recorded twice producing a demo and the CD Hermetic Words, and played that year at various venues in Leeds and at Molde International Jazz Festival in Norway. This ongoing quartet is now called Lonesome George and is touring and giving concerts both in Norway and England.