More videos like this and more then Google: "mike wick minnesota videos" (Now with over 200 educational videos +) Many are Norwegian-American travel, Norwegian history and Scandinavian music videos. Håkon Høgemo (born 1965), from Øvre Årdal in Sogn, has been described by fiddler Knut Buen as “the Crown Prince of the Hardanger fiddle”. One of the foremost fiddlers in Norway today. His unique sound and technique have lifted the art of Hardanger fiddle playing to a higher level. In his collaboration with musicians from other genres, he has given fiddle tunes a new, modern mode of expression. Høgemo has won the first prize at the National Contest for Traditional Music twice, in 1989 and 1995.
Håkon Høgemo was the first recipient of the Osa Prize in 1992, and received the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s award for young folk musicians in the same year. He is one of very few Hardanger fiddlers to work on a freelance basis.
Høgemo has played on many CDs, and has toured in Norway, the USA, the UK, Germany, Japan and Belgium. Håkon Høgemo is a member of several folk music groups, including Karl Seglem Band, Slåttetrioen, Sogn, Gamaltnymalt, Bufaste tonar and Utla.
His solo album presents Hardanger fiddle music from some of the main areas of this tradition: Sogn, Voss, Hardanger and Valdres.
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Kjell Tore Innervik, percussionist from Narvik in Arctic Norway, graduated in 2004 from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with a Diploma in Solo Percussion, and has since explored music, performance and music making in an ever deeper search for the performer within himself. During a three-year fellowship at the Norwegian Academy of Music, he commissioned music for his artistic research project Quartertonamarimba. He continued at the Academy with a four-year post-doctorate exploring sound, extended percussion instruments, interfaces and electronics through improvisation, and co-creating music in close collaboration with composers. Innervik has also given the world premiere of numerous works for percussion.
Innervik has said that he was drawn to an interest in the roots of musicianship and to an exploration of the field of interpretation. “I wanted to put our interpretation of modern classics in a wider perspective,” he says, “and to give my own shake-up to the tradition. This meant I had to be ready to take risks, and to work hard at my craft. One of the paths I took was into the music of Xenakis and Feldmann, and a sample of the results can be heard on this album. I say ‘a sample’ because I devoted approximately a thousand hours to each piece, with preparations, careful thought, explorations, continual testing, rehearsing, re-thinking, more rehearsing: all in all, constantly searching further and further until I felt I was free to give a voice - a sound - to my choices, and to physically perform them into audible expressions.”
Håkon Høgemo (Hardanger) and Kjell Tore Innervik (drum)
are Associate Professors at the
Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway