Eirik Hegdal: 'EnEnEn' with Johan Lindström
Commissioned works: beautiful music in many shades
Eirik Hegdal has composed new music and for Kongsberg 2019 he brings the colorful trio 'EnEnEn' together with the outstanding Swedish pedal steel guitarist Johan Lindström
The work reveals a unique free-spirited and fresh universe, and it is easy to be fascinated by their creative interplay. Since their inception in 2007, they have released two colorful albums, 'Rød & Blå' (2010) and 'Grønn & Gul' (2017).
It will be a meeting between great musical ears, well organized with tailor-made music from Hegdal. We will hear beautiful music in many shades, which will hopefully be released in a new color-titled album after this Kongsberg premiere!
Johan Lindström has enriched Norwegian concertgoers with his pedal steel guitar playing with Susanne Sundfør. At home in Sweden, he is known for his work with various jazz greats, Ane Brun, Tonbruket, as well as his own Johan Lindström Septett. Hegdal can say that he got his first taste of Lindström's genius when he heard him with Per Texas Johanson (with music from the album "Alla mine kompisar") at a concert at Blå in Oslo in 1999.
Eirik Hegdal – saxophone, clarinet, composer
Michael Francis Duch – double bass
Tor Haugerud – drums
Johan Lindström – guitar
Tor Breivik – sound design
The doors open at approx. 16:00
Concert start at 16:30
Age limit: 18 years
Accompanying person with an accompanying certificate: only needs to buy a seat ticket and only pays the ticket fee. Contact Ticketmaster for further information.
A SIGNIFICANT JAZZ AWARD
Saxophonist and composer Eirik Hegdal received the Kongsberg Jazz Festival's big musician prize of NOK 200.000 during last year's festival. The award will go to a performer who has made a mark on the Norwegian jazz scene, and who at the same time shows potential for further development - both nationally and internationally. The jury believes that Eirik Hegdal fulfills these criteria by a good margin. As part of the award, the award winner holds a concert at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival the following year. The award recipients from the last two years, Susanna Wallumrød (2016) and Marius Neset (2017) have both returned to the festival the following year and performed three unique concerts in three different constellations.
Eirik Hegdal will therefore be seen in a triple format during this year's festival, on three different days with three different constellations.
The jury wanted to emphasize Hegdal's outstanding abilities as an instrumentalist, and his educational work. Hegdal was for a long period artistic director of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and during this time led the orchestra to a number of artistic triumphs, several times in collaboration with international prides such as Joshua Redman and Dave Holland.
"Eirik Hegdal is a musical powerhouse, not just for Trondheim, but for the whole country," says Tor Dalaker Lund, member of the jury for the Kongsberg Jazz Festival's musician prize.
As a composer, Hegdal has written works for the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Vertavo Quartet and the Trondheim Sinfonietta, in addition to countless jazz compositions both for his own and other bands. He has also, in collaboration with Asle Karstad and Trondheim Voices, won a Hedda prize for audiovisual design and sound design for the theater performance 'Hundre hemmelighete'.
Eirik Hegdal x 3
Friday 05.07.2019/15/00 @ Lågdalsmuseet, XNUMX:XNUMX
FOLK
Saturday 06.07.2019/17/30 @ Sølvsalen, XNUMX:XNUMX
Musical Balloon
Photo: Julieane Schütz
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