Anne-Marie Giørtz

Anne Marie Giørtz ( born March 19, 1958 in Stockholm ) is a Norwegian jazz singer.

Giørtz had from 6 to 19 years of age ballet lessons and participated in performances of the Norske Opera of Det Norske Teater with. She studied from 1976 at the University of Oslo piano, alto saxophone and jazz singing. She attended various summer courses and seminars and studied vocal and vocal technique at Rigmor Tarøly, Ellen Sundby, Torstein Følinger and Henning Karlstad.

In 1980 she became a member of the jazz band EIM, with which she toured Norway and participated in the Molde Festival. in the 1980s they took, inter alia, participated in five productions of the Telemark Teater and entered Nye Teater (with music by Arne Nordheim ) on the Norske Teater and at Oslo. On ABC teatret she stood more than two hundred times in the musical Little Shop of Horrors on stage. They also gave concerts with Toralf Maurstad and Wenche Medbo.

In 1982, Giørtz own quintet, since 1986, she leads the band AB and TO. In 1988 she became a member of Tom Lund Trio de Janeiro ( with Sveinung Hovensjø ). With the group she joined, among others in Scandinavia, Germany, France, Spain, Russia and Brazil.

Giørtz received two nominations for the Spellemannprisen ( for Breaking out, in 1983, Totally, 1996) and won the award with the Trio de Janeiro for the album Brazilikum (1993). With Veslemøy Solberg and Kaia Huuse they worked together on a project on texts by Aksel Sandemose. Since the mid- 1990s, she teaches singing, among other things høgskole at Norges Musikk and the University of Oslo.

Discography

• Breaking Out, Anne Marie Giørtz Kvintett, 1983
• Tigers Of Pain, Anne Marie Giørtz band, 1985
• From and To, From and To, 1989
• Brazilikum, Trio de Janeiro, 1993
• Amoregano, Trio de Janeiro, 1995
• Totally, From and To, 1996
• Jenter fra Jante with Veslemøy Solberg and Kaia Huuse, 1999
• Spark Of Life, From and To, 2002