Martin Taxt
Martin Taxt (* 1981 in Trondheim ) is a Norwegian jazz and improvisation musician ( tuba ).
Life
Taxt studied at the Music Academy in Oslo and in 2006 at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) in Paris. Since then he has dealt with contemporary and improvised music; u. a. with the Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama in the Norwegian ensemble Streifenjunko , which released two albums on the SOFA label, Varianter av døde trær (2008) and Selektiv hogst (2010, with Toshimaru Nakamura ). Expanded to a quintet, the formation appears as Koboku Senjû . Together with Peder Simonsen and Robin Hayward he runs the Microtonality Tubatrio Microtub .
Taxt toured Europe, Japan, China and North America with the ensembles Koboku Senjû, Murmur, Flymodus and with Kim Myhr . Taxt has been running the SOFA label since 2010 and has organized the Fri Resonans Festival in Trondheim since 2006 . In the field of jazz he took part in recordings with the Spin Ensemble (including with Nils Ostendorf ) and Florebius (including with Lena Nymark ) in the mid-2000s , as well as with the formations Splashgirl , JÆ , Eva & the Heartmaker , Music for a While as well as with Maria Mena, Hanne Hukkelberg, Jessica Sluchter and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra ( Stems and Cages ). In 2017 he presented the album Listening to the footsteps of living ones who are still on the ground (Ftarri) with Toshimaru Nakamura .
Web links
- Web presence
- Martin Taxt at Allmusic (English)
- Martin Taxt at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taxt, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian jazz and improvisation musician (tuba) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trondheim |