Arve Eilif Furset (born 5 December 1964 in

Askvoll is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Askvoll. Other villages in the municipality include Holmedal, Kvammen, and Stongfjorden. The m ...

, Western Norway) is a Norwegian composer, jazz musician (piano, keyboards) and music producer, known from a series of record releases and cooperations with the likes of

Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk (born 28 September 1957) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums) and music tescher. Known from a series of concerts, festival performances and records with the likes of DumDum Boys, Thorgeir Stubø, Frode Alnæs, Palle Mikkel ...

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Elin Rosseland Elin Rosseland (born 5 April 1959 in Norway) is a singer, bandleader, and composer who studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and is known from collaborations with Vigleik Storaas, Johannes Eick, Sidsel Endresen, Eldbjørg Raknes, Christian W ...

Johannes Eick Johannes Eick (born 22 April 1964) is a Norwegian bassist (double bass and electric bass guitar), the son of bassist and vibraphonist Jürgen Eick (b. 1937), and the older brother of musicians Trude Eick and Mathias Eick. In his youth he played ...

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Jostein Hasselgård Jostein Hasselgård (born 24 March 1979) is a Norwegian singer. He was the winner of Norway's national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest and he won Norway a fourth place in the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the ballad ...

Eivind Aarset Eivind Aarset (born 23 March 1961) is a Norwegian guitarist who has worked with Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ute Lemper, Ketil Bjørnstad, Andy Sheppard, Mike Mainieri, Arild Andersen, Abraham Laboriel, Dhafer Youssef, Django Bates, and Nils ...

, and Norma Winstone.

Career

Furset studied music at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1983–85), and was a member of bands like the

Bodega Band Bodega Band (established 1929 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz orchestra based in Trondheim, and part of "Studentersamfundets Orkester" at the Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem. The original sextet was established during the student festival ...

(1985–89),

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(1986–87), and

& The Sympathy Orchestra (1989–90). He also worked regularly with bands like the quintet ''First Set'', with whom he performed at festivals in

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...

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 ...

and Moldejazz, the trio ''Konerne ved Vandposten'' and ''Orleysa''. Since 1999, he toured with

's band

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. In the late 1990s he also worked with pop musicians like the band ''Flava to da bone'' and Lynni Treekrem. Furset was orchestra leader and composer of ''

Trøndelag Teater Trøndelag Teater is a large theater in the city of Trondheim, in Trøndelag county, Norway. Trøndelag Teater stages large-scale dance and musical performances. History Originally built in 1816, the theater is the oldest stage in Scandinavia ...

'' and participated in more than thirty of the ensembles tours. Later he worked at the ''Sentralteateret'' and in ''

Oslo Nye Teater Oslo Nye Teater is a theater located in Oslo, Norway. The theater has its main stage in its own theater house at Rosenkrantz' gate 10. It is one of Norway's most visited theatres. Oslo Nye Teater AS is wholly owned by Oslo Municipality. Histor ...

'' and worked as a composer, arranger and composer for the big Saturday night shows on

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. He now works as a music producer in the field of

dance music Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded danc ...

, World Music and

electropop Electropop is a hybrid music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. Writer Hollin Jones has described it as a variant of synth-pop with heavy emphasis on its electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a re ...

, and teaches keyboards and electronical music at the "Nordisk Institutt for Scene og Studio" (NISS). He composed and produced two songs for the Norwegian

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...

, and the title ''I'm Not Afraid To Move On'', sung by

was the winner in the Norwegian finale, and 4th in the international finale.

Entries in the Eurovision Song Contest

I'm Not Afraid To Move On Norway participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song "I'm Not Afraid to Move On" written by Arve Furset and VJ Strøm. The song was performed by Jostein Hasselgård. The Norwegian broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) returne ...

" by

, Norway ( Eurovision Song Contest 2003), 4th place

Entries in national Eurovision pre-selections

Good Evening, Europe! {{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 ''Good Evening, Europe!'' is a national final song for the Eurovision Song Contest. It was performed by musical theatre singer Birgitte Einarsen in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix 2003, where it ended third, plac ...

" by Birgitte Einarsen ( Norway 2003), 3rd place *"Velvet Blue" by Kathrine Strugstad ( Norway 2005)

Discography

;Within Orleysa *1991: ''Orleysa'' (

Odin Records Odin Records is a Norwegians, Norwegian jazz record company and label founded in 1981 by the Norwegian Jazz Federation, when there were not many independent record labels in Norway. Only major international record companies were to be found in O ...

) *1993: ''Svanshornet'' (Odin Records) ;Other projects *1987: ''Bodega Band Vol. IV'' *1992: ''Going'', with First Set *1992: ''Far to go'', with

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& Norma Winstone *1998: '' Sympathetic'', with

& The Sympathy Orchestra *2001: '' Light Extracts'' ( Jazzland Records), within

*2001: '' Oofotr II''

Heilo catalog The following is a summary of the Heilo Music albums. Heilo Music is a Norwegian record label with records published by the parent label Grappa Music Grappa Musikkforlag (established 1983 in Norway) is a Norwegian music company initiated and dire ...

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, featured by

Oofotr Oofotr is a Norwegian music group consisting of jazz musicians from Narvik. They arrange traditional music from Ofoten and had their debut in Kjeldebotn Church, 1994 with music contributions from local historian Magnus Pettersen from Ballangen. Af ...

References

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