Håvard Lund (born 20 October 1970 in

Gildeskål Gildeskål is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Bodø Region and the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Inndyr. Other villages include Forstranda, Lekange ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

), is a Norwegian jazz musician (

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and saxophone) and composer, known from a series of recordings and collaborations with musicians like

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Frode Fjellheim Frode Fjellheim (born 27 August 1959 in Mussere) is a Southern Saami yoiker and musician (piano and synthesizer) from Norway. He is best known for his band Transjoik and as the composer of the 2002 song "Eatnemen Vuelie", which was later adapted ...

s Jazzjoik Ensemble, later to become

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, Trygve Seim Ensemble and

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (TJO) (established 1999 in Trondheim, Norway) is an orchestral project based in Trondheim, and closely related to both the Midtnorsk Jazzsenter (MNJ - Mid Norwegian Jazz Center) and Jazz Line at the Trøndelag Conservator ...

Career

Lund earned his

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on the Music Program at in 1989 and graduated from the Jazz Program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium in 1993. and was widely recognized as the saxophone player in Farmers Market (1991–1996), Frode Fjellheim's Jazzjoik Ensemble (1991–1998), and Trygve Seim Ensemble (1991–2021). During 1996–2002 he composed music for a number of dramatic productions, including for ''Torshovteateret'',

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 ...

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''Radioteateret'' and

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. From 2003 to 2008 he played for ''Forsvarets Musikkorps Nord-Norge'' as clarinetist, and was this year's festival artist ''Festspillene in Northern Norway'' in 2006. In addition he was Artist in residence at ''Musikk i Troms'' from 2007 to 2008, after which he held a permanent position there as a regional musician. Lund has also worked as a session musician on numerous recordings, including with ''Decoy'', ''Fotefar'',

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and

. In the 2010s, Lund developed The Arctic Hideaway, a residential workspace and part-year hotel on Sørvær in the group of islands in the

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, 40 minutes from

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Discography

*1996: ''Letters'', with fellow students in Trondheim *2010: ''My Sister Said'', jazz chamber music with

and

. *2012: ''Blix by Lund'', world music with among others

Unni Løvlid Unni Løvlid (born 23 March 1976) is a Norwegian musician. She was raised in Hornindal, Sogn og Fjordane, where she was taught to play piano, fiddle, and Hardanger fiddle. Her interest in folk music was initiated by her mother, Oline Ragnhild ...

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, Svante Henrysson and the ensemble MiNensemblet *2021: ''Dreams of boundless time'', chamber music with and

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Anmeldelse av ''My Sister Said''Anmeldelse av "Blix by Lund"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lund, Haavard Norwegian jazz saxophonists Norwegian jazz clarinetists Norwegian jazz composers Male jazz composers People from Gildeskål Living people Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni 1970 births 21st-century Norwegian saxophonists 21st-century clarinetists 21st-century Norwegian male musicians Trondheim Jazz Orchestra members Farmers Market (band) members