Jan Gunnar Hoff

January Gunnar Hoff ( born October 22, 1958 in Bodø) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer.

Career

Hoff studied at the Conservatory of Trondheim at Terje Bjøklund and later took private lessons with Harold Danko (1987) and Django Bates (1994) and Andy Laverne in New York ( 2000). He began his musical career in a piano trio and as a sideman Jon Christensen. In 1982 he toured with Arild Andersen and Nils Petter Molvaer, 1987, he participated in a Norwegian all-star combo on the performance of a composition in January Garbarek for the Federation of Norwegian jazz musicians with.

1992 Hoff debuted at Harstad Festival with the performance of own composition, a four-part suite for piano trio and percussion, formed the basis of his own first album for the label Syklus Odin. He leads by Jan Gunnar Hoff Group ( with Audun Kleive, Knut Riisnæs and Bjørn Kjellemyr and since 1995 with Tore Brunborg ), which occurred at various festivals in Norway and the UK, in 2000 gave concerts in Paris and worked at the Molde Festival 2001 with Pat Metheny.

With the trio Northern accompanied Hoff musicians such as John Surman, Karin Krog and. He played in sessions with Chick Corea and Joanna MacGregor and in the bands of Kenwood Dennard (1999 ) and Martin France ( 2000). In 2004 he toured with Norby and Lars Danielsson Cæcilie. In 2005, he wrote songs for the free flow Vossajazz Festival, which were performed with the Portuguese singer Maria João, with whom he subsequently appeared in France. In 2006 he collaborated with Mike Stern, for whom he composed the piece magma.

For the Jazz Messe Meditatus Hoff received the 2006 Edvard Grieg Prize as a composer. The work appeared in 2007 in a recording with the Bodø Domkor.

Discography

• Syklus, 1993
• Moving, 1995
• Crosslands, 1998
• In town, 2003