Signe Emmeluth

Signe is a Danish saxophone player, composer and improviser currently based in Oslo.

Her music explores the relationsship between fixed and fluid components, and she is interested in the intersection between composition and improvisation and the flexibility in this space. 

With a sharp and unique tone her playing is easily recognized.

Melodies with rapidly changing octaves and a shift between the naive and playful to brutal primal screams are some of what makes up Signe Emmeluth’s vocabulary.

She graduated from the NTNU Jazz Department, Trondheim in 2017.

In recent years, Signe has marked herself as a growing voice on the scene for improvised music and she has become an important part of the music environment in Scandinavia through her playing and composing for her own band Emmeluth’s Amoeba as well as when playing solo.

She’s collaborating with The Ex, Hanne De Backer, Paal Nilssen-Love and Gard Nilssen among others and is seen in different versions of Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

In 2020 she received the prestigious JazZtipendiat and premiered the work Physicality in/emotion for Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at Moldejazz 2021. She was also given the price “De Unges Lindeman” by Maja S.K. Ratkje in 2021. In 2022 she premiered her commission work Banshee at Vossa Jazz. The album received an Spellemann Jazz in 2024. In 2024 she premiered her latest work for larger ensemble ALT at the Borealis festival. 

Full CV here

Signe Emmeluth is a saxophonist, improviser and composer based in Oslo, Norway