Sondre Meisfjord

Sondre Meisfjord

Meisfjord with Live Maria Roggen, Come Shine and TJO in Bergen, Norway at Nattjazz 2016.
Background information
Born (1975-03-18) 18 March 1975
Oslo, Norway
Origin Norway
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician, composer
Instruments Upright bass, cello, vocals
Website home.online.no/~livero/meisfjord.html

Sondre Meisfjord (born 18 March 1975 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian folk and jazz musician (double bass and cello), and composer, raised in Frei, Nordmøre, known from bands like Come Shine, Flukt, Gjermund Larsen Trio.[1]

Career

Meisfjord attended the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1998–2001).

He won Spellemannprisen (2002) with the jazz band Come Shine (1998–2003), played Norwegian folk music with the trio 'Flukt', Irish folk music in 'Musharings', cool jazz in John Pål Inderberg's The Zetting, pop in Siri Gjære's band, and was in the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra with Pat Metheny. Other musicians he has worked with include Odd Nordstoga, Dadafon, Kringkastingsorkesteret, Trondheim Soloists, Kari Bremnes, Dipsomaniacs, Gjermund Larsen, Tord Gustavsen, and Stig Rennestraum.

Recently he has played with the 'Urban Tunélls Klezmerband'.[2]

Honors

Discography

Within Come Shine
Within Flukt
With Sissel Kyrkjebø
With Roger Johansen
With Kari Bremnes
With Odd Nordstoga
Within Gjermund Larsen Trio
With Gabriel Fliflet

References

  1. ↑ "Mellomuke-blues & The Sound of Money". Dagbladet. 2013-07-10. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  2. ↑ Sabbatini, Marc (2008-03-19). "The World's Northernmost Jazz Festival: Polarjazz 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
  3. ↑ "Sondre Meisfjord Discography". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
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