Lars Andreas Haug

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Lars Andreas Haug (2017)

Lars Andreas Haug (born April 12, 1975 in Frogner ) is a Norwegian jazz musician ( tuba and soprano saxophone , Tubmarine, composition ).

Live and act

Haug graduated from Rud High School with an arts degree; from 1994 to 2001 he studied up to a master’s degree at the Norges Musikkhøgskole . In a duo with the singer Live Maria Roggen , he released Tu'Ba (1998). In the acoustic trio Tri O'Trang he worked with Helge Lien (piano) and Torben Snekkestad (saxophone); it has released the albums Liker (2000), Fordivi (2002), Plays Jon Eberson (2005) and Må (2006).

With the band 1300 Oslo he released the live album Live in the North in 2001 . Since 1996 he has been a member of the Etno jazz trio Akku ; In cooperation with the joiker Elfi Sverdrup and the jazz singer Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer, an album of the same name was created in 2001. With the trio Moment's Notice with Knut Aalefjær (drums) and Vidar Sæther (saxophone) he released the albums Moment's Notice (2003) and Sorryhappy (2005). He was also an active member of Trygve Seim's ensemble with publications such as Sangam ( ECM , 2004). In 2004/06 he received the Norwegian artist grant Statens Arbeidsstipend . At the same time he taught at the Norges Musikkhøgskole (as improvisation and main instrument teacher).

Haug presented his own compositions with the wind orchestra on the record Vinterfjøs (Curling Legs, 2005), on which he also performed with saxophonist Trygve Seim and Mats Eilertsen and Per Oddvar Johansen (drums). In 2008, pieces for a quintet expanded to include bassoon and trombone followed on the album Fabatune . For Rikskonsertene (2006) he toured intensively through Norway; In 2009 he was on a concert tour in Egypt with Trygve Seim and Frode Barth. In addition to his Lars Andreas Haug Quintet, Haug worked with the LA Band septet , in which he also played his self-made Tubmarine - a horizontally sawn-off tuba with a long, periscope-like tube. He can also be heard on recordings by Ole Paus , Hasse Poulsen , Steffen Schorn , Ragnhild Furebotten and with Grzegorz Piotrowski's World Orchestra .

Discographic notes

  • Vinterfjøs (Curling Legs 2005)
  • Fabatune (Curling Legs 2008)
  • Conrairo (Curling Legs, 2013, with Camilla Susann Haug, Gunnar Halle , Frode Haltli, Helge Lien, Steffen Schorn, Knut Aalefjær)
  • Lars Andreas Haug / Steffen Schorn Soul Twins (Glacier Records 2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
personal data
SURNAME Haug, Lars Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz musician (tuba and soprano saxophone, Tubmarine, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Frogner