Mike Nielsen
{{Short description|Irish musician and composer}}
{{about||people with a similar name|Michael Nielsen (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Mike Nielsen
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1961|2|21}}
| birth_place = Sligo, Ireland
| genre = Jazz, classical
| occupation = Singer, musician
| instrument = Guitar
| years_active =
| label = Lyte
}}
Mike Nielsen (born 21 February 1961) is an Irish guitarist, composer, and educator specializing in jazz and improvised music.{{cite web|title='Live Reviews', Journal of Music|url=http://journalofmusic.com/criticism/live-reviews-mike-nielsen-and-louis-winsberg|access-date=26 May 2012}}{{cite web|title='Mike Nielsen', The Irish Times|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2011/0204/1224288945978.html|access-date=26 May 2012}}
Career
Born in Sligo, he began on ukulele at the age of four.{{cite web|title='Mike Nielsen launches album at The Model', Sligo Champion |url=http://www.sligochampion.ie/entertainment/mike-nielsen-launches-album-at-the-model-934958.html|access-date=19 May 2012}} He studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Dublin College of Music as well as the Berklee College, Boston.Hodgett, Trevor: "Nielsen, Mike", in: The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. by Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 737.
Performing on acoustic and electric guitars, he has worked with Kenny Wheeler, Larry Coryell, Kenny Werner, Jason Moran, Simon Nabatov, Eric Revis, Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman, with whom he toured Europe in 2001, New Zealand/Australia in 2004 and has recorded two albums. He has also performed with the Crash Ensemble and featured as a soloist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.{{fact|date=October 2020}}
Nielsen is Director of Jazz Performance at the Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama.{{cite web|title=DIT, Conservatory of Music and Drama, Mike Nielsen Biography|url=http://www.dit.ie/conservatory/departments/orchestralstudies/staffandvisitinglecturers/mikenielsen/|access-date=19 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724165857/http://www.dit.ie/conservatory/departments/orchestralstudies/staffandvisitinglecturers/mikenielsen/|archive-date=24 July 2012}}
Discography
- Solo at Garden City (2000)
- Osmosis (2003)
- Sound Recipes (2004)
- Evolution with Benjamin Dwyer (2005)
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Category:People from Sligo (town)
Category:Irish jazz guitarists
Category:Musicians from County Sligo
Category:20th-century Irish guitarists
Category:21st-century Irish guitarists
Category:20th-century Irish male musicians
Category:21st-century Irish male musicians
Category:Irish male guitarists
Category:Alumni of the Royal Irish Academy of Music
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