Tuva Halse: Air Music feat. Håkon Kornstad – commisioned work
Air, arias, beautiful landscapes and the sound of modern chamber jazz!
Tuva Halse won the #huninvesterer grant from DNB in 2024. This year she returns to the festival with the commissioned work Air Music, which takes us back to the classical roots where the baroque and written meets the Nordic and improvised.
With a nod to Handel, Bach and Purcell Air Music is located somewhere between the traditional and the modern, the written and the improvised and the baroque and Nordic. With the lyrical and melodious in the center, Halse has in her commissioned work gone back to her roots and found chorales, sonatas and cantatas that touched the heart in her childhood. Elements from this music are now explored in an improvised context, with electronic and vocal elements in the face of the Nordic jazz expression. In addition to Halse's regular quintet, consisting of some of the most exciting young names on the Norwegian jazz scene, Håkon Kornstad appears in this work where the boundaries between classical music, jazz and improvisation are blurred.
Tuva Halseis an improvising violinist and composer who is currently pursuing her master's degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music, after attending studying jazz in Trondheim. She is active in a number of different projects such as Tuva Halse Quintet, Bento Box Trio, Miriam Kibakaya Concept and OJKOS to name a few. She has already played at several of the central jazz scenes in Norway with her own and other people's projects, with musicians such as Mathias Eick, Tord Gustavsen, Mats Eilertsen, Sissel Vera Pettersen and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. Earlier this year she received the prestigious appointment of NTNU Ambassador (which Kornstad also received in 2013), praised for "her playful lyrical nerve and a rare, courageous sensitivity in tone and playing style". Inspired by nature, relationships and human emotions, she composes music with improvisation at the center. Here you can find traces of both folk music and Nordic jazz, played with a warmth and intimacy that moves the listener.
Håkon Kornstadhas long been one of the country's foremost jazz musicians, acclaimed for his unique saxophone sound. He has given us genre-defining albums with bands such as Wibutee, together with Bugge Wesseltoft, with his own Kornstad Trio, and in duo collaborations with Håvard Wiik and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten.
Tuva Halse – violin
Håkon Kornstad – saxophone & vocals
Oscar Andreas Haug – trumpet
Benjamín Gísli Einarsson – piano
Gard Kronborg – bass
Øyvind Leite – drums
Doors open at 16:30, concert starts at 17:30 / Numbered seats / Free age limit
Photo: Marius Beck Dahle
