Håvard Fossum (born 7 June 1971 in

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) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and flute), composer and arranger, situated in Oslo since January 2000. He is known from a series of recordings and cooperations with the likesog

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and

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Career

Fossum holds a

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from the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (NTNU, 1989–92), and a

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in ''Jazz Saxophone Performance'' from the

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at the

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. Here he studied composition and arranging with Ron Miller ("Modal Jazz Composing and Arranging, Vol I & Vol II") and Gary Lindsay ("Jazz Arranging Techniques"). Fossum was awarded a grant of US$16 000,- by the "Norge-Amerika Foreningen" to take this education. After finishing his music studies in 1998, Fossum worked as a freelance musician in Miami for a year. It may be mentioned that in February–March 1999 he joined the

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on tour for two months. He was nominated for the

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2007 in the class Jazz for the album ''F.A.Q. - Frequently Asked Questions'', within the Fossum-Aarum Quartet. The band comprises his brother

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(double bass),

(piano) and

(drums). Fossum plays within several both big bands and smaller bands like Funky Butt, "The Sinatra Songbook", "Kaba Orchestra", Halvard Kausland/Helle Brunvoll Septet, "Cannonballs" (including Eckhard Baur), "The New Swing Generation", "Inge Stangvik Quintet",

's "Rainbow Studio Band", Erling Wicklund's "Take Five", Marvin Charles, "Lars Erik Gudim's Big Band",

's "Crazy Energy Orchestra", "Norske Store Orkester For Jazz", "Sharp Nine" (

), Børre Dalhaug's BigBandBlast! and "Bunch Of Chops". As a freelance musician he has been involved in many TV shows. Fossum is also a well recognized arranger and composer, and has written scars on various television shows, like "Skal Vi Danse" and "Drømmerollen", theater, jazz ensembles, big band, concert band / wind band, choir, jazz ensemble and a variety of events and concerts. Especially in big band format, he has an extensive production with a significant number of original compositions for artists and bands like Heine Totland, "Forsvarets Musikkorps/storband", "Det Norske Blåseensemble",

Bergen Big Band Bergen Big Band (BBB) is a Norwegian big band established 1991 as a continuation of Knut Kristiansen's Bergen Band. BBB is known from cooperations with musicians like Phil Woods, Paquito D'Rivera, Joe Henderson, Maria Schneider, Diana Krall, ...

, Julie Dahle Aagård, "Ett Fett Storband", "Sandvika Big Band", "Store Norske Orkester For Jazz", Kjell Karlsen's Orchestra, "Lars Erik Gudim's Big Band" and "Trøndelag Teater". In 2007 he presented "Fossum Experience" with Julie Dahle Aagård as special guest, at the club "Herr Nilsen" in Oslo, and was saxophone soloist with

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from the legendary band

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and Kringkastingsorkesteret (KORK) in 2010. In 2011 he released the album ''Examination Of What'' within Håvard Fossum/Børge-Are Halvorsen Quartet, (including his brother Jens and

Håkon Mjåset Johansen Håkon Mjåset Johansen (born 1 August 1975 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz drummer and composer, known from playing with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra featuring Chick Corea at Moldejazz 2000, cooperations with Bugge Wesseltoft's New ...

Discography

;Within the Fossum-Aarum Quartet *2006: ''F.A.Q. - Frequently Asked Questions'', within the Fossum-Aarum Quartet (Schmell Records) ;Within Håvard Fossum/Børge-Are Halvorsen Quartet *2011: ''Examination Of What'' (Losen Records), with Børge-Are Halvorsen ;Other projects *1993: ''Gi Akt!'' (Sonet), within H.M. the King's Guard Band as arranger & leader *2009: ''Red'' (Ozella), with

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*2011: ''The Rainbow Band Sessions'' (Losen Records), with

's Rainbow Band

References

External links

Håvard Fossum / Børge-Are Halvorsen Quartet - Examination of What
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fossum, Haavard 1971 births Living people Musicians from Trondheim Avant-garde jazz musicians Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni Norwegian jazz saxophonists Norwegian jazz composers Losen Records artists 21st-century saxophonists Ensemble Denada members