We had a great tour, celebrating Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, being 15 years! Listen and watch the Oslo concert HERE These joined the tour: LIVE MARIA ROGGEN voice EIRIK HEGDAL saxophones, clarinet ESPEN REINERTSEN tenor saxophone, bass clarinet HANNA PAULSBERG tenor saxophone JOHN PÅL INDERBERG soprano- and baritone saxophone EIVIND LØNNING trumpet MARIE SOLUM GRAN french horn ØYVIND BRÆKKE trombone ADRIAN LØSETH...

Warning: Undefined variable $dots in /customers/4/c/9/eirikhegdal.com/httpd.www/wp-content/themes/sight/functions.php on line 731 TJO with Marius Neset won the Norwegian music award “Spelemannsprisen” for Best Jazz album 2014! Great fun!

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Happy to share that the album “We are?” with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Eirik Hegdal were, by Jazznytt (Jazz magazine), chosen to be a part of “the 50 most important norwegian jazz releases” through the last 50 years! This was my first project for the TJO. It meant a lot to me to release this album. Listen at https://wimp.no/album/20114399 Here is also...

We will fly again! September 22nd and 23rd at KamFest.no in Trondheim! Cirka Teater and Alpaca Ensemble at Trondheim Chamber Music Festival. A great outdoor happening! Be there! From www.kamfest.no Composer: Eirik Hegdal Directors: Anne Marit Sæther, Espen Dekko og Gilles Berger Alpaca Ensemble:Sigrid Stang, violin Marianne Baudoin Lie, cello Else Bø, piano Sissel Vera Pettersen,...

Warning: Undefined variable $dots in /customers/4/c/9/eirikhegdal.com/httpd.www/wp-content/themes/sight/functions.php on line 731 Hundre Hemmeligheter, a play by Cirka Teater/Anne Marit Sæter/Eirik Hegdal, just won two prizes at the Hedda Awards; for Best audiovisual design and Best play for children. The prize for the audiovisual design goes to Asle Karstad, Trondheim Voices and me. Great joy! 🙂    

A new album from Angles 9! Visit www.cleanfeed-records.com Here are some info from that site: The working cell called Angles has a new opus, this time recorded in studio and released in two supports, CD and LP. After “Every Woman is a Tree” and “Epileptical West – Live in Coimbra” (Angles 6), and after “By...

Warning: Undefined variable $dots in /customers/4/c/9/eirikhegdal.com/httpd.www/wp-content/themes/sight/functions.php on line 731 The Trondheim Jazz Orchestra are these days playing concerts in the mid of Norway, and an exclusive concert at Unterfahrt in Munich. You can follow us at Facebook. You’ll find the dates for our tour in the Concert calendar. Hope to see you! Photo by Arne Hauge

The 12th of February there will be a release of a new album with Alpaca Ensemble & Eirik Hegdal. The recording is titled “Moving Slow”. Cover design by Birgit Rostad, mastered by Morten Stendahl, recorded at Øra Studio, mixed by me, played by Sigrid Stang, Marianne Baudouin Lie, Bergmund Skaslien, Tor Haugerud and me, released...

A new year. New opportunities. May 2014 bring you all new challenges, with good outcome! I will in the next few weeks be finishing a musical (something I never thought I would do ..). This is a collaboration with Cirka Teater and Trondheim Voices. The play “Hundre Hemmeligheter” (Hundred Secrets) will run at Trøndelag Teater...

Tomorrow I’ll leave for Stockholm to practise with Angles 9. Here is the tour schedule: Nov 28th at Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm, SE Nov 29th at Victoria/Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo, NO Nov 30th at All Frontiers Festival, Monfalcone, IT Dec 4th at Grand Theatre, Groningen, NL Dec 5th at Lublin Jazz Festival, PL Dec 6th at Musik Kultur, St Johan in Tirol,...

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra with Sofia Jernberg & Olav L Mjelva played our first concert (out of two) yesterday, at Riksscenen in Oslo. Saturday we’ll play an early gig at Umeå Jazz Festival in Sweden. This is traditional folk music from Norway, arranged by the great trio: Sofia Jernberg, Alexander Zethson and Lene Grenager! Our leading star...