Kristian Borring

Kristian Borring is a Danish born jazz and session guitarist. He is cited to be "a guitarist of enormous technical ability who utilizes his considerable gifts thoughtfully and tastefully, a highly accomplished guitarist and composer” (The Jazz Mann, UK). On graduating from Guildhall School of Music (London) in 2006, he cemented his name on the UK scene as a leader and sideman alike and has performed all over Europe and Australia. He has multiple acclaimed albums to his name (on Jellymould Jazz Records, Babel, Ultra-Sound Records and Coolit! Records), receiving radio play worldwide (e.g., BBC, ABC, DR), and has performed with a range of names such as Archie Shepp, Will Vinson, Jim Hart, Jamie Oehlers, Fabian Almazan, Tal Cohen, Monika Lidke, The Puppini Sisters, Ray Quinn, Bruno Heinen, Tommaso Starace and many more. Kristian has been compared to players such as Pat Metheny (Jazzwise, UK) and Pat Martino (Jazz Journal, UK), and is described as a “serious post-bop wizard” and “a transcendent stylist capable of swift complex lines and serious swinging” (Vintage Guitars, US). Kristian’s latest offering, ‘Earth Matters’ with the trio Number Junky was featured in the American magazine Jazziz with the track ‘The Elf’. ‘Earth Matters’ … “will not fail to seduce jazz and guitar fans in particular" – (Jazz Mania, BEL), "an album we could all benefit from listening to " (Dingo Jazz, AUS). In 2017 Kristian relocated to Australia to teach jazz guitar and composition at the prestigious Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts in Perth. Here he now performs with his trio Number Junky and is busily working as sideman while continuing to perform and tour with his European group, which has received much acclaim – “great force and a controlled ferocity” (Jazz Special, DK), “control and empathy” (BBC 3), “creative contemporary jazz at its very best” (Jazzviews, UK). In 2021 Kristian also founded his own label Coolit Records in response to the decrease in global touring due to the world pandemic.