MATHIAS HEISE

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Danish jazz harmonica player, composer and arranger

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“A dynamic musical collective where creativity and improvisation are paramount.”
Jazzhus Montmartre

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“There is something about the connection with breath and lips that – at least in Heise’s case – creates moments of otherworldly beauty.”
Jørgen Nielsen, All That…

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Mathias Heise is one of the world’s leading harmonica players. He was born in 1993 in Rødovre, just outside Copenhagen, Denmark, and started playing harmonica at the age of seven. A few years later he also took up piano and keyboards.

Albums

So far, Mathias Heise has released seven albums in his own name.

With Action 4’s:

THE ACTION 4S(2025)

With Bjarke Mogensen:

Flux(2024)

With Mathias Heise Quintet:

Mouth Games(2023)

With Mathias Heise Quadrillion:

Quadrillion (2022)

Decadence (2017)

Sudden Ascent (2015)

With DR Big Band:

The Beast (2018)

See album reviews here.

Awards and nominations

2025: Palæ Bar’s Jazz Award

2024: Mouth Games nominated ‘Album of the year’ at Danish Jazz Awards.

2019: The Hartmann Diploma-Prize awarded to younger persons who are “expected to contribute to a continuously positive development of the Danish society”.

2019: The Beast nominated ‘Album of the year’ at Danish Jazz Awards.

2018: The Danish Arts Foundation’s award presented to artists “who have created a work of particularly high artistic quality” (for his album with DR Big Band The Beast).

2017: The Ben Webster Prize, as the youngest recipient ever.

2016: The Danish Crown Prince Couple’s Stardust Award – an award that is given to honor and highlight young Danish artists about to make an international break-through.

2015: New Jazz Star of The Year, Denmark.

2015: Mathias Heise Quadrillion nominated ‘Best New Jazz Act’ at Danish Jazz Awards.

2013: Chromatic Harmonica World Championship, Trossingen, Germany.

Selected discography as a sideman