new artist 3. 11. 2009
New Tango Orquesta
Since the beginning in 1996, New Tango Orquesta have, on five albums and a countless number of international tours up to now, with the composer Per Störby as a leader, explored and developed the concept of “nuevo tango”. With their unique mix of baroque music, tango, free improvisation, minimalism and romantique, they have gained territory all over the world with their special sound. Their focused performances are a complete acoustic, dynamic, and musically masterpiece one should never miss. .
Helge Lien Trio invited to London Jazzfestival 30. 08. 2009
HLT will play on Friday, November 20th @ Pizza Express Jazz Club as part of the London Jazzfestival.
new collaboration with Kalleklev Management 8. 06. 2009
Helge Lien Trio on Kalleklev Management for Scandinavia
The award winning Helge Lien Trio is now on Kalleklev Management for live concerts in Norway/ Scandinavia.
www.helgelientrio.com
www.kalleklev.no
Dans Les Arbres at Shared Sounds Festival, Berlin 7. 06. 2009
20th of June, Radialsystem
SHARED SOUNDS Music between the Exit Signs
Nach dem großen Erfolg im vergangenen Jahr findet von 18.-21. Juni zum zweiten Mal das Festival SHARED SOUNDS im RADIALSYSTEM V statt. Vier Tage lang präsentieren außergewöhnliche internationale Musiker Projekte, die Jazz, Weltmusik und Klassik zu einer neuen Art von Kammermusik verbinden. Während 2008 Europa und seine Folk-Traditionen im Mittelpunkt des Festivals standen, öffnet sich SHARED SOUNDS diesmal Einflüssen aus der arabischen Welt.
Auf dem Programm stehen Konzerte mit Jon Balkes Siwan, Amina Alaoui, Kheir-Eddine M’Kachiche und dem Elbipolis-Barockorchester, dem Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, der Cellistin Frances-Marie Uitti und dem Sound Artist Joel Ryan, Dans les arbres, Michael Wollny, Asita Hamidis Bazaar und dem Anouar Brahem Quartet.
mehr info: http://www.sharedsounds.de/
chiessiproductions@Jazzahead 17. 04. 2009
We are at Jazzahead 24th-26th of April. Please contact us for a meeting. See you in Bremen!
Helge Lien Trio wins Norwegian Grammy 1. 02. 2009
Spellemanprisen 2008 in the category Jazz goes to Helge Lien Trio for the album “Hello Troll”. Congratulations!
spring season 14. 01. 2009
new dates!
check out the “on tour” section – new concert dates for Dans Les Arbres, Wu Fei, Helge Lien Trio and Rosendal/Earle Templeton.
Norwegian Grammy nomination for Helge Lien Trio 14. 01. 2009
“Hello Troll” (Ozella) is nominated for the Norwegian award “Spellemannsprisen” 2008!
Wu Fei Norway premiere! 12. 01. 2009
Wu Fei will play in Oslo in Duo with sax player Rolf-Erik Nystrøm 2nd of April, it will be her first performance in Norway.
She will also play at Vossajazz (solo).
Kongsberg Jazzfestival Musicians Award to Helge Lien 7. 07. 2008
Kongsberg Jazzfestival has awarded piano player Helge Lien with the DnBNor Musicians Award.
Kongsberg Jazzfestival has since 1996 given this award to one outstanding Norwegian musician. The price is provided by the Norwegian bank DnBNor. The musician gets half the prize money at once, the rest is to be used for a prize winner’s concert at the 2009 festival.
This year the jury chose piano player and composer Helge Lien. He has released five widely acclaimed albums with his own trio, has worked the past years with singer Silje Nergaard and has also composed music for a tv series at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK.
Helge Lien is also recognized abroad. He has a wide Japanese audience, and will this fall tour in major European cities.
Former winners:
Morten Qvenild 2007, Håvard Wiik 2006, Solveig Slettahjell 2005, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten 2004, Live Maria Roggen 2003, Håkon Kornstad Trio (Håkon Kornstad, Paal Nilssen-Love og Mats Eilertsen) 2002, Christian Wallumrød 2001, Petter Wettre 2000, Audun Kleive 1999, Sidsel Endresen 1998, Bugge Wesseltoft 1997, Nils Petter Molvær 1996.