Helge Sunde

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Helge Sunde (2015)

Helge Havsgård Sunde (born June 9, 1965 in Stryn ) is a Norwegian jazz musician (trombone, big band leader) and composer.

Live and act

Sunde studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with Olav Anton Thommessen , Bjørn Kruse , Lasse Thoresen and Alfred Janson (diploma 1995). At the end of his studies his composition Festina lente was published on the album Absolute Pling-Plong: Eight ways of making music (with seven fellow students). He made a name for himself as an arranger and composer for symphony orchestras and contemporary chamber ensembles. In 1992 he was the representative of his home country in the EBU big band . The trombonist and multi-instrumentalist can be seen on stage in formations such as the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Listening Ensemble by Geir Lysne ( Sangam , 2004), the Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra , the band of Mory Kanté and as leader of his own bands. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Sonde's big band Denada was one of the surprises of the JazzFest Berlin 2010 with its “smart arrangements and a high, perfectionist playing culture” .

He has also worked on recordings by Ole Paus ( Biggle's testamente , 1992), Motorpsycho ( Let'em Eat Cake , 2000), Arve Henriksen ( Cartography , 2008) and Wenche Myhre ( In Concert , 2008).

Sunde has also been a teacher at the State Music Academy, Oslo University and other universities in the past .

Prizes and awards

In 1990 he was awarded the Spellemann Prize as a member of the Oslo Groove Company , which he founded with fellow students like Geir Lysne . In 2010 he received the ECHO Jazz for his big band work .

Discographic notes

  • Rotations (Aurora, 2006; with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Ernst and Saxofon Concentus)
  • Denada ( ACT , 2007).
  • Finding Nymo (ACT, 2009).
  • Ensemble Denada Windfall (Ozella, 2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait (Norsk Musikkinformasjon)
  2. ↑ Catalog raisonné (kulturnett.no) ( Memento from January 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ A selection of his symphonic and chamber music is published on the album Rotations (2006).
  4. ↑ Denada press review ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
  6. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
  7. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
personal data
SURNAME Sunde, Helge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sunde, Helge Havsgård (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Stryn