Liudas Mockūnas

Liudas Mockūnas is a Lithuanian saxophonist, reed player and composer, born in 1976. He works between free jazz and contemporary music, and is known for a sound built on multiphonics, overtones and extended techniques. He studied with Vladimir Chekasin at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, then at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, and teaches jazz at the Vilnius academy. Liudas Mockūnas co-founded Toxikum with Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg, and the group's 2003 album was named Danish jazz discovery of the year.