Music for a While | |
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 Tora Augestad and Music for a while 2014. | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Oslo, Norway |
| Genres | Kabaret, jazz |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | Grappa |
| Members | Tora Augestad Mathias Eick Stian Carstensen Martin Taxt Pål Hausken |
| Website | www |
Music for a While (established 2004 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian kabaret ensemble led by Norway's uncrowned queen of cabaret, Tora Augestad. [1] [2]
Their music is obtained from the cabaret, baroque and church music repertoire, with elements of jazz. They present different musical styles with a very distinctive sound. [1]
Music for a While released their debut album Weill Variations (2007). [3] The follow-up album Graces that refrain (2012) received critical acclaim. [2] It was accompanied by a tour in Norway. [4] Their third release was the album Canticles of Winter (2014). [1]
Pitsj is a female Norwegian a cappella quintet. The band consists of Anine and Benedikte Kruse, the twin sisters Ane Carmen and Ida Roggen, and Anja Eline Skybakmoen.
Mathias Eick is a Norwegian jazz musician, and the brother of the jazz musicians Johannes Eick and Trude Eick. He is mainly known from his releases on the jazz label ECM Records. His main instrument is the trumpet, but he also plays upright bass, vibraphone, piano and guitar. He has performed with several well-known music groups and musicians, e.g. Jaga Jazzist, Manu Katché, and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra together with Chick Corea and Pat Metheny. Besides this he is also known for his collaboration with Norwegian singer-songwriter Thomas Dybdahl, and recordings with the Norwegian bands Turboneger, DumDum Boys, Motorpsycho, D'Sound and Bigbang.
Stian Carstensen is a multi-instrument Norwegian musician, entertainer and with Jarle Vespestad (drums) and Nils-Olav Johansen, central members of the Balkan-jazz orchestra Farmers market.
Tora Karen Elisabeth Augestad is a Norwegian mezzosoprano, musical conductor and actor. One of Norway's most established classical singers, she focuses on jazz, musical theater, contemporary music, and cabaret. Her stage debut was the lead role in "Annie" in 1994, and won the Norwegian talent competition in 1993 at TV 2. Augestad has received Spellemannprisen and other awards for her albums. She is a frequent collaborator of Norwegian composer Marcus Paus.
Pitsj is the eponymous debut album by the female Norwegian a cappella quintet, Pitsj. The album was released in 2006 through Grappa Music.
Gjenfortellinger with Pitsj is a jazz a cappella album. It was released in 2009 on Grappa Music.
Marcus Nicolay Paus is a Norwegian composer and one of the most performed contemporary Scandinavian composers. As a classical contemporary composer he is noted as a representative of a reorientation toward tradition, tonality and melody, and his works have been lauded by critics in Norway and abroad. His work includes chamber music, choral works, solo works, concerts, orchestral works, operas, symphonies and church music, as well as works for theatre, film and television. Paus is regarded as "one of the most celebrated classical composers of Norway" and "the leading Norwegian composer of his generation."
Bjørn Ole Rasch is a Norwegian artist, composer, arranger and producer. He is a professor of popular music at the Agder University College. With his wife, Annbjørg Lien, he runs the Kongshavn Studios in Kristiansand.
Ellen Andrea Wang is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer. She is the cousin of singer-songwriter Marthe Wang. Raised in Søndre Land, Oppland, she released her debut album, Diving, in 2014. She formed the band Pixel in 2010. Wang has toured with Manu Katché and Marilyn Mazur and has performed with Sting.
Ane Carmen Stuve Roggen is a Norwegian singer, conductor, arranger, and journalist. She is the younger sister of jazz singer Live Maria Roggen and the twin sister of jazz singer Ida Roggen.
Ida Rannveig Stuve Roggen is a Norwegian jazz singer, information officer, and literary scholar, and is the younger sister of jazz singer Live Maria Roggen and twin sister of Soprano Ane Carmen Roggen.
Anja Eline Skybakmoen is a Norwegian jazz singer, composer and band leader, the younger sister of guitarist Jonas Skybakmoen, and married 31 July 2014, to the guitarist David Aleksander Sjølie.
Pål Hausken is a Norwegian jazz musician, most known from bands like the jazz trio In The Country where he plays together with Morten Qvenild and Roger Arntzen, but also for his collaboration with artists like Susanna Wallumrød, Bull of the Year, Zahl and Music for a While together with Tora Augestad.
Ivar Anton Waagaard is a Norwegian musician (piano). He has collaborated with several Norwegian artists like Sigmund Groven, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Arve Tellefsen, Truls Mørk, Aage Kvalbein, Solveig Kringlebotn, Randi Stene, Aage Kvalbein, Tora Augestad, Jannike Kruse, Silje Nergaard, Jonas Fjeld and Lars Klevstrand.
Martin Taxt is a Norwegian jazz musician (tuba), known from a variety of jazz bands like Koboku Senjû, Microtub, Muringa, Music for a While and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.
Lena Nymark is a Norwegian jazz singer and music teacher raised on the island Sula, south of Ålesund. She was educated at the Norwegian Academy of Music. In addition to vocals, she plays saxophone, clarinet, flute and electronics.
Sigurd Hole is a Norwegian jazz musician from Rendalen living in Oslo.
Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen is a Norwegian jazz singer, songwriter, cabaret artist and songwriter, known from her own releases and appearances.
Ørjan Matre is a Norwegian contemporary composer.
Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra, or simply Hate Songs, is an operatic song cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Norwegian composer Marcus Paus based on poetry by American poet Dorothy Parker. Paus' Hate Songs was published in 2014, and was included on Tora Augestad's and the Oslo Philharmonic's album Portraying Passion: Works by Weill/Paus/Ives (2018) with works by Paus, Kurt Weill and Charles Ives; it has received critical acclaim and was awarded the Spellemannprisen for 2018 in the Classical class.
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