Anne Marie Giørtz

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Anne Marie Giørtz (2018)
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Anne Marie Giørtz (born March 19, 1958 in Stockholm ) is a Norwegian jazz singer.

Giørtz had ballet lessons from the age of 6 to 19 and took part in performances at the Norske Opera des Det Norske Teater . From 1976 she studied piano, alto saxophone and jazz singing at the University of Oslo. She attended various summer courses and seminars and studied vocal and voice technique with Rigmor Tarøly , Ellen Sundby , Torstein Følinger and Henning Karlstad .

In 1980 she became a member of the jazz band EIM , with whom she toured Norway and took part in the Moldefestival . in the 1980s she took u. a. participated in five productions of the Telemark Teater and performed at the Norske Teater and the Oslo Nye Teater (with music by Arne Nordheim ). At the ABC-teatret she was on stage more than two hundred times in the musical The Little Horror Shop . She also gave concerts with Toralf Maurstad and Wenche Medbø .

In 1982 Giørtz founded her own quintet, and since 1986 she has been leading the band AB and ZU . In 1988 she became a member of Tom Lund's Trio de Janeiro (with Sveinung Hovensjø ). With the group she performed u. a. in Scandinavia, Germany, France, Spain, Russia and Brazil.

Giørtz received two nominations for the Spellemann Prize (for Breaking out , 1983 and Totally , 1996) and won the award with the Trio de Janeiro for the album Brazilikum (1993). She worked with Veslemøy Solberg and Kaia Huuse on a project based on texts by Aksel Sandemose . Since the mid-1990s she has been teaching singing a. a. at the Norges Musikk høgskole and the University of Oslo.

Discography

  • Breaking Out , Anne Marie Giørtz kvintett, 1983
  • Tigers Of Pain , Anne Marie Giørtz band, 1985
  • Now and then , now and then, 1989
  • Brazilikum , Trio de Janeiro, 1993
  • Amoregano , Trio de Janeiro, 1995
  • Totally , Every now and then, 1996
  • Jenter fra Jante with Veslemøy Solberg and Kaia Huuse, 1999
  • Spark Of Life , Now and then, 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Giørtz, Anne Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm