Helge Sunde

Helge Sunde Havsgård ( born June 9, 1965 in Stryn ) is a Norwegian jazz musician (trombone, big band leader) and composer.

Life and work

Sunde studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo in Olav Anton Thommessen, Bjørn Kruse, Lasse Thoresen and Alfred Janson (Diploma 1995). At the end of the course the publication of his composition Festina lente was on the album Absolute Pling Plong: Eight ways of making music ( with seven fellow students ). As an arranger and composer for symphony orchestras and contemporary chamber ensembles he could make himself a name. As early as 1992 he was the representative of his native country in the big band of the EBU. On stage is the trombone player and multi-instrumentalist in formations such as the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, to experience the Listening Ensemble of Geir Lysne ( Sangam, 2004), the Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra, the band of Mory Kanté and as leader of his own bands. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung was Sundes Denada big band with his " clever arrangements and a high, perfectionist game culture " one of the surprises of the Berlin Jazz Festival in 2010.

He has collaborated on recordings by Ole Paus ( Biggle 's testamente, 1992) Motorpsycho ( Let'em Eat Cake, 2000), Arve Henriksen ( Cartography, 2008) and Wenche Myhre ( In Concert, 2008).

Sunde in the past was also a teacher at the State Academy of Music, the University of Oslo and at other universities.

Prizes and awards

In 1990 he was honored as a member of the Oslo Groove Company, which he founded with fellow students as Geir Lysne with the Spellemannprisen. In 2010 he received the ECHO Jazz for his big band activities.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Rotation (Aurora, 2006; with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Ernst and saxophone Concentus )
• Denada (ACT, 2007).
• Finding Nymo (ACT, 2009).