Håkon Storm-Mathisen

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Håkon Storm
Birth nameHåkon Storm-Mathisen
Born (1967-03-13) 13 March 1967 (age 57)
Oslo, Norway
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, guitarist
Instrument(s)Guitar
LabelsNorCD
WebsiteOfficial website

Håkon Storm (born Håkon Storm-Mathisen 13 March 1967 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar),[1] the son of professor of medicine Jon Storm-Mathisen (b. 1941), and known from his own band projects in addition playing within the "Prime Time Orchestra", and collaborations with Tore Brunborg, Finn Guttormsen, Jarle Vespestad, Jacob Young and Beate S. Lech.[2][3]

Career

When graduating from the Music program at

Norges Musikkhøgskole when in 2002 he received NKR 25 000,- in grants from the Japanese "Sasakawa fund", which was dued to play with Japanese musicians and teach there. Several tours to Japan followed in 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2012.[4][5] He also performed in guitarduo with Jacob Young (2001– ), and they toured in Serbia in 2003.[2]

Storm-Mathisen also led his own H. S.-M. Quartet including Tore Brunborg (saxophone), Finn Guttormsen (bass) and Jarle Vespestad (drums), known from Farmers Market who took a play break. With Beate S. Lech and said Brunborg he also led a trio. The solo debut Canned Second (2004), with his own compositions was secure.[6] The successor as a solo artist Zinober (2012), with the album Matsukaze (2006) with "The Livin' Jazz Orchestra" in between, was a success. In recent years he has been in the band Winther-Storm together with bassist Thomas Winther Andersen, the Argentine saxophonist Natalio Sued and Dutch drummer Mark Coehoorn, with album releases Patchwork (2010) and Spinnaker (2012).

Discography

Solo albums

  • 2001: Storm-bird, in Washington D.C., with Jimmy Halperin, Thomas Winter Andersen and Steve Altenberg
  • 2004: Canned Second (Curling Legs), with Nils Jansen, Finn Guttormsen and Jarle Vespestad, with his own compositions for the most
  • 2006: Matsukaze (Aim Records), within The Livin' Jazz Orchestra, performing the compositions "Ourobouros" and "Matsukaze", with 15 movements altogether
  • 2012: Zinober (NorCD), solo with his own compositions[7]
  • 2014: Fosfor (NorCD)
  • 2016: Volta Trio (NorCD)

Collaborative works

Within "Line up»
  • 1995: Line up (NorCD)
  • 2001: Out From A Cool Storage (NorCD)
Within "Winther-Storm»

References

  1. ^ "Håkon Storm-Mathisen Bransjeregister". MIC.no. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Young og Storm-Mathiesen til Serbia" (in Norwegian). Norsk Musikkinformasjon MIC.no. 31 March 2003. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Håkon Storm-Mathisen". AllAboutJazz.com. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Håkon Storm-Mathisen turnerer i Japan". Norsk Musikkinformasjon MIC.no. 7 November 2003. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  5. ^ "Hakon Storm Japan Tour 2012". Norsk Musikkinformasjon MIC.no. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  6. ^ "Sikker debut – Canned Second Review BergenPuls" (in Norwegian). Bergens Tidende. 9 March 2005.
  7. ^ "Håkon Storm-Mathisen Zinober (Discography) Review". RadioLudo.no. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2012.

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