Bendik Hofseth

Bendik Hofseth (Oslo 2016)

Bendik Hofseth (born October 19, 1962 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer.

Live and act

Hofseth played in various Norwegian bands since 1980, including 1980 to 1982 in Erik Wøllo's quintet , 1982 in Lakki Patey's band , 1983 to 1984 in Jon Eberson's group , 1984 to 1985 in the rhythm and blues group Heavy Gentlemen and next to it with Pål Thowsen .

He then went to the United States for six years , where he worked with the Steps Ahead and Full Circle groups . He has also performed with Norwegian musicians such as the group Ab und zu , Kenneth Sivertsen and Arild Andersen and the German saxophonist Michael Villmow .

After returning to Norway in 1991, he founded his own band, with which he recorded several CDs, mostly with his own compositions, and worked with musicians such as John McLaughlin , D'Gary , Hariprasad Chaurasia , Mikhail Alperin , Django Bates , Andy Summers , Tony Levin , Rickie Lee Jones , Helge Iberg , Andrea Marcelli , Øystein Sevåg , Ingeborg Hungnes and Terje Venaas , Jacob Young , Ketil Bjørnstad , Bertine Zetlitz , Jan Bang , Sigvart Dagsland , Espen Beranek Holm and Bjørn Eidsvåg . He has also performed with symphony orchestras such as the Oslo Filharmoniske Orkester , the Filharmonie i Bergen and the Trondheim Symfoniorkester and recorded Bjørn Kruse's saxophone concerto .

Hofseth also recorded pop, entertainment and film music (with Reidar Skår, among others ) and composed for theater, ballet and film. He is chairman of NOPA (Norsk vorening for komponister og tekstforfattere), the Norwegian association of composers and lyricists.

Bendik Hofseth (2016)

Discography

• NYC 1989 with Steps Ahead
• IX , 1991
• Amuse Yourself , 1993
• Metamorfoser , 1994
• Colors , 1996
• Planets, Rivers and ... IKEA , 1996
• Smilets history , 1999
• Oppfinnelser , 1999
• "Itaka", 2004

Web links

• Bendik Hofseth's homepage
• Bendik Hofseth at Discogs (English)