Tone Åse (born 24 February 1965 in

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) is a Norwegian singer, known from Norwegian choirs and

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scenes. She is married to, and musically cooperating with jazz keyboardist

Ståle Storløkken Ståle Storløkken (born 22 February 1969 in Dombås, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (keyboards, organ and piano) and composer, known for collaborations with artists like Terje Rypdal, BigBang, Supersilent and Motorpsycho. Store Norske ...

Career

After completing teacher education, she studied classical vocals at the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium and Tromsø Musikkonservatorium, and got a master's degree on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (2007), where she is still working as an assistant professor. (Kjell Håve, 2007) Åse joined ''Kvitretten'' (1991) and contributed to two records with

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, and

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which she still are cooperating with. She took over the lead of ''Sosialistisk Kor'' in

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(1994), and is also involved with ''Trondheim Voices''. She has performed with

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. She has also contributed in

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s «Liveband» (2006), and with

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she performed «Samtalen» at ''Olsokdagene'' (2006) She leads the quartet BOL with her husband Ståle Storløkken (piano), Tor Yttredal (saxophone) and

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(drums) with the album ''Silver sun'' (2001). They appeared as a trio when Yttredal left the band, and composed the commission work for ''Trondheim Kammerfestival'' (2003). They performed at ''Varangerfestivalen'' (2006). Åse is in the new lineup with

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's ''Future Song''.

Discography

Solo albums

;Within «Tone Åse &

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Duo» *''Voxpheria'' (Gigafon Records, 2012) ;Within BOL *''BOL'' (Via Music, 2001) *''Silver Sun'' (

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, 2005) *''Skylab'' (Nor CD, 2008) *''Numb, Number'' (Gigafon Records, 2012)

Collaborative works

;Within Kvitretten *''Voices'' (Curling Legs, 1996) *'' Everything Turns'' (Curling Legs, 1999) *''Kloden Er En Snurrebass Som Snurrer Oss'' (Curling Legs, 2002), with Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen (Reciting)

References

External links

* * ww.ntnu.no/ansatte/tone.ase Tone Åseat NTNU
BOL Official Website
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