Eirik Hegdal: Musical Balloon
On the balloon journey, Hegdal has a particularly inspired team of top musicians with him
Together they did the first performance of 'Musical Balloon', which was the Tiningsverket at Vossa Jazz in 2018. In addition to the premiere causing great excitement among the audience, there was a press corps that smiled broadly from ear to ear. The jazz magazine, Downbeat wrote, among other things:
"... one of the best commissions of recent vintage". "... a fascinating suite in a micro-big band context, laced with theatricality, moments of swinging bravura and an overall narrative ebb-and-flow".
The music is refreshing, exuberant and yet unified; here are percussive, free syncopation, tight winds with leaps of joy, surprising melodies and continuous motifs. A micro-big band that with excess sends the energy on, let you rise up together with Hegdal's balloon!
Eirik Hegdal – clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet
Mattias Ståhl – vibraphone
Jon Fält – percussion
Eivind Lønning – trumpet, piccolo trumpet
Nils-Olav Johansen – guitar, banjo, vocals
Ole Morten Vågan – double bass
Tor Breivik – sound design
The doors open at approx. 16:30
Concert start at 17:30
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
Thursday 04.07.2019/16/30 @ Sølvsalen, XNUMX:XNUMX
'EnEnEn' with Johan Linderström
Friday 05.07.2019/15/00 @ Lågdalsmuseet, XNUMX:XNUMX
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Photo: Julieane Schütz
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