Eirik Hegdal: PEOPLE
Commissioned works: folk music in focus, but with a foothold in jazz
Eirik Hegdal has selected a dream team to perform newly written music.
With "Følk", Hegdal wants to write music for strong individual voices that all have roots in traditional music. The music will also be colored by Hegdal's foothold in jazz, but will be stretched in the direction of Norwegian and Swedish folk music.
Here you can only enjoy a weave of beautiful and incredible vocals, a fiddle virtuoso, a drum magician and Hegdal himself at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in 2019!
Eirik Hegdal – saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Sofia Jernberg – vocals
Unni Løvlid – vocals
Gjermund Larsen – fiddle
Hans Hulbækmo – drums
Tor Breivik – sound design
The doors open at approx. 14:00
Concert start at 15:00
Free age limit
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
Thursday 04.07.2019/16/30 @ Sølvsalen, XNUMX:XNUMX
'EnEnEn' with Johan Linderström
Saturday 06.07.2019/17/30 @ Sølvsalen, XNUMX:XNUMX
Musical Balloon
Photo: Julieane Schütz
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