Nikolaj Hess and Naja Marie Aidt

Name: Nikolaj Hess and Naja Marie Aidt
Start: 2026-09-09T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-23T22:00:00+02:00
Location: BRØK

took place · 9 Sep 2026

BRØK, Copenhagen

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Pianist Nikolaj Hess and author Naja Marie Aidt meet at BRØK in Copenhagen on Wednesday, 9 September 2026 for a concert without a fixed script. Improvisation, readings, and piano pieces merge in the moment, with the direction shaped by the interplay between the two artists. BRØK is located at Brønshøj Square in a former school building run by Copenhagen Municipality and hosts several halls for concerts and events. This concert is one of two Danish dates for Nikolaj Hess this season. Tickets cost 90-180 kr.

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About: Nikolaj Hess

One of Danish jazz's most versatile voices, Nikolaj Hess moves between solo piano recitals, chamber ensembles and film scoring - his credits include Lars von Trier's Melancholia - and has earned two Danish Music Awards for his recordings.

236.7K

monthly listeners on Spotify

213K

plays of 'Portraits in Jazz' on YouTube Music

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winner of Danish Music Award

What's new

2026
Nikolaj Hess released the album Portrait in Black and White with the quartet Portraits in Jazz, which also includes saxophonist Claus Waidtløw, bassist Anders Christensen and drummer Jakob Høyer.
2026
During 2026, Hess released a series of singles, including 'Ballad For Bernt', 'Night Nurse', 'You've Changed', 'Cliff' and 'Nocturne'.
2025
Hess released the singles 'Ride The Tide' and 'Little Heartache' in 2025.

Tracks

Spacelab & StringsChamber jazz album from 2021 on Sunnyside Records - widely praised by critics

Portrait in Black and WhiteLatest album (2026) with the quartet Portraits in Jazz

Transformative Reflections - Red StudioAlbum from 2024 with Marilyn Mazur, Tony Scherr and Kenny Wollesen

At the MoviesAlbum from 2023 with Anders Christensen and Mikkel Hess

By This RiverDuo album from 2006 with Sissel Vera Pettersen (Music For Dreams)

Recent shows

Nov 30, 2001 The Drop Inn, Copenhagen (DK)

About: Naja Marie Aidt

Born on Christmas Eve 1963 in Aasiaat, Greenland, and raised in Copenhagen's Vesterbro, Naja Marie Aidt has built a body of work across poetry, short stories, novels and drama since her 1991 debut. Her latest novel Øvelser i mørke won the DR Romanprisen 2025, chosen by readers across more than 90 book clubs nationwide.

19+

languages into which Aidt's books have been translated

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published titles in the author's work

120+

DR Novel Reading Clubs that read Exercises in the Dark

What's new

2025-06
Naja Marie Aidt received the DR Novel Prize 2025 for the novel Exercises in Darkness at a live broadcast from Dokk1 in Aarhus on June 14.
2025-06
The prize of 25,000 kr. was voted for by readers from over 90 novel reading clubs at libraries across the country.
2024-02
The novel Exercises in Darkness was published by Gyldendal in February 2024 - Aidt's second novel, seven years after her previous publication.

Tracks

BavianShort story collection (2006), won the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2008 and the Critics' Prize 2007

Har døden taget noget fra dig så giv det tilbage. Carls bogProse book (2017) about the loss of her son Carl - nominated for the National Book Award in the USA 2019

Øvelser i mørkeNovel (2024), won the DR Novel Prize 2025

Sten saks papirNovel debut (2012), critically acclaimed family novel and thriller

Så længe jeg er ungDebut poetry collection (1991), the starting shot for an authorship of over 20 titles

Nikolaj Hess and Naja Marie Aidt

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