Otto Willberg

Otto Willberg is a Double Bass player and improviser involved with multiple contemporary music and improvised music groups. He currently leads the band Early Nite, which is participating on Jazz North’s subsidised roster scheme ‘Northern Line’. In April 2017 he participated in an AIDF funded tour to Japan which included performances with renowned experimental musician Toshimaru Nakamura, and resulted in a live album release on the Raw Tonk label. As an improvising double bassist he has toured mainland Europe and performed in groups with musicians Alex Ward, Hannah Marshall, and Mark Hanslip. He is also a member of the Spike Orchestra, and has performed at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, London Contemporary Music festival, Darmstadt fur Neue Musik, Supernormal and London Jazz Festival.