Peter Rosendal relishes his own musical unpredictability. Difficult to pigeonhole, he doesn’t object to being called unorthodox as a musician, composer or arranger. Or, in his own words: ‘I like to pull the rug out from under the listener.’ On Trickster, Rosendal juggles with 22 instrumentalists in an ensemble created for the occasion by pairing The Orchestra with folk group Trio Mio.
Born in 1976, Peter Rosendal arranged all of the music heard here and composed most of it, creating a complex, whimsical and – true to the Rosendal spirit – humorous programme, drawing inspiration from the island of Fano off the west coast of southern Jutland in Denmark to Belo Horizonte in Brazil and beyond.
Often labelled as a jazz pianist (which he is), Rosendal is much more than that. He is a member of award-winning folk trio ULC alongside Trio Mio and has written for Denmark’s famed musical collective The Orchestra. The results on Trickster are con