The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1992 in Norwegian music.

Events

April

* 10 – The 19th

Vossajazz Vossajazz or Vossa Jazz (established 19 December 1973) is an international jazz festival in Voss, Norway, which takes place annually during the week before Easter, and which also includes concerts throughout the year. The festival has been led by ...

started in

Voss, Norway Voss () is a municipality and a traditional district in Vestland county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages include Bolstadøyri, Borstrondi, Evanger, Kvitheim, Mjølfjell, Opphe ...

(April 10 – 12).

May

* 20 – The 20th

Nattjazz Bergen International Jazz Festival or Nattjazz, is one of the largest jazz festivals of Norway. The festival has a musical profile with an emphasis on ethnic and contemporary jazz. It is held annually in late May, coinciding with Festspillene ...

started in

Bergen, Norway Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, secon ...

(May 20 – 31).

June

* 27 – The 23rd

Kalvøyafestivalen Kalvøyafestivalen was a Norwegian music festival arranged at Kalvøya in Bærum nearby Oslo, Norway. The festival was initiated by people connected to the folk club Hades at the art center on Høvikodden. The festival was started by Sten Rander ...

started at Kalvøya near by Oslo (June 27 – 28).

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* The band Storytellers was initiated.

Albums released

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Jon Balke Jon Georg Balke (born 7 June 1955) is a Norwegian jazz pianist who leads the Magnetic North Orchestra. He is the younger brother of saxophonist Erik Balke. Career Balke started playing classical piano but switched to blues at 12, though he pe ...

* ''Nonsentration'' (ECM Records) with

Oslo 13 1300 Oslo (active from 1979 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian jazz band originally called Oslo 13 (1979–93), founded and operated the first two years by Bror Hagemann and continuated by Jon Balke. In 1994 the band got a joint leadership with Tr ...

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Jan Garbarek Jan Garbarek () (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Østfold, southeastern Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław ...

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Ragas and Sagas ''Ragas and Sagas'' is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, featuring Ustad Fateh Ali Khan and musicians from Pakistan released on the ECM label in 1992.

'' (ECM Records) with Ustad Fateh Ali Khan and Musicians from Pakistan

Deaths

; March * 27 – Harald Sæverud, composer (born

1897 Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...

). * 28 – Elisabeth Granneman, singer, songwriter, children's writer and actress (born

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...

). ; August * 3 –

Finn Ludt Finn Ludt (16 November 1918 – 3 August 1992) was a Norwegian pianist, composer and music critic. He was born in Fana. He made his concert debut in Bergen in 1945. He composed several songs, including "Blåklokkevikua", "Blåbærturen" and "L ...

(73), pianist and harpsichordist, best known as an organist (born

1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

Births

; January * 17 –

Kristian B. Jacobsen Kristian Breivik Jacobsen (born 17 January 1992 in Bodø, Norway) is a Norwegian bassist. Biography Jacobsen studied music at Norwegian Academy of Music (2012–2013) before joining the jazz program at Norwegian University of Science and Techn ...

, jazz bassist and composer. * 20 – Anders Eikås, rock drummer of

Honningbarna Honningbarna ( en, "The Honey Children") is a punk rock band from Kristiansand, Norway, known for performing lyrics in the local Kristiansand dialect. Career The band débuted in 2010 with the EP ''Honningbarna''. In January 2011, they wer ...

(died

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

). ; March * 6 –

Lukas Zabulionis Lukas Zabulionis (born 6 March 1992 in Lithuania) is a Norwegian saxophonist and composer of Lithuanian origin, residing in Sandefjord, Norway. Biography Zabulionis has lived in Sandefjord since he was 7 years old. After graduation at Sandefj ...

, jazz saxophonist and composer. * 15 –

Elisabeth Lid Trøen Elisabeth Lid Trøen (born 15 March 1992 in Voss, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, and composer. Biography Trøen picked up the saxophone at 16 in 2008, and studied jazz at Voss Jazzskule. By the age of 20, she had already played with ...

, jazz saxophonist and composer. ; April * 6 –

Mathias Stubø Mathias Stubø (born 6 April 1992 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian musician and DJ in the genre electronica, also known as Proviant Audio. He is the son of jazz vocalist Kjersti Stubø, grandson of jazz guitarist Thorgeir Stubø and nephew o ...

, electronica artist and DJ. ; May * 9 –

Ingrid Søfteland Neset Ingrid Søfteland Neset (born 9 May 1992) is a Norwegian Classical flautist living in Stavanger (2017). She is the daughter of music teachers guitarist Terje Neset (born 1959) and pianist Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø (born 1961), and the sister of ...

, classical flautist. * 25 – Krissy Matthews, blues rock singer, songwriter and guitarist. ; September * 9 –

Frida Amundsen Frida Waage Amundsen (born 9 September 1992) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter from Vaksdal. In autumn 2009, she signed a recording contract with EMI EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also re ...

, singer and songwriter. ; Unknown date *

Siril Malmedal Hauge Siril Malmedal Hauge (born 1992 in Langevåg) is a Norwegian jazz singer and songwriter residing in Oslo, Norway. Biography Siril Malmedal Hauge is a vocalist educated on the jazz program at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in ...

, jazz singer, composer and band leader.

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