Trygve Seim

Trygve Seim ( born April 25, 1971 in Oslo) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist.

Life and work

Seim started to play the saxophone, after he had heard in 1985 January Garbarek's CD " eventyr ". In 1990, he took his music studies at the conservatory in Trondheim.

In 1991, he and the Norwegian pianist Christian Wallumrød the group Airamero with John Eick on bass and Per Oddvar Johansen on drums. In 1994 the recording of the CD of the same name. The band undertook several tours in Scandinavia and Germany.

Trygve was appointed in 1992 to Jon Balke's Oslo group 13 and 1994 he took together with Morten Halle and Torbjørn Sunde, the head of the group under the new name " Oslo 1300 ".

Seim is also a member of the jazz quartet "The Source " with Øyvind Brække, Ingebrigt Flaten and Per Oddvar Johansen. The band recorded five CDs and toured throughout Europe and Russia. He also worked as a sideman for Edward Vesala and Kenny Wheeler.

Seim released in 2001 on ECM CD "Different Rivers" received good reviews worldwide. For this production, he received the Prize of the German Record Critics. Since then he took, among other things turn for the ECM album " Sangam " and participated in Iro Haarlas ECM album Northbound (2004) with.

Lately, he has also composed for classical musicians such as the Norwegian opera singer Anne -Lise Berntsen and "Between Voice and Presence " for the " Trio Mediaeval ". In 2006 he created for the Voss Jazz Festival commissioned by the " veins "; 2011 appeared the duo album Purcor (ECM, with Andreas Utnem )