Acclaimed Norwegian musicians Trygve Seim and Frode Haltli will perform at Kings Place in a concert best described as a ‘journey through a landscape of hauntingly beautiful folk music – with Norwegian and Celtic traditions at heart’.
Trygve Seim is a Norwegian jazz musician, most noted for his contribution to avant-garde jazz. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music before enrolling at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology where he studied jazz for three years. He has released a number of acclaimed recordings, his latest, ‘Yeraz’, is a collaboration with Frode Haltli, whom is recognised as one of Norway’s most accomplished accordion players. Haltli studied the accordion at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He was awarded the prize of ‘Young Soloist of Year 2001’ at the Bergen International Festival and both of his album’s have been well received by critics, his debut album winning the Norwegian Grammy Award for best contemporary music album. Haltli has performed in most European countries, in addition to the USA, Russia, Japan and China.
The Norwegian musicians will be accompanied by cellist Agnes Vestermann and Garth Knox, who plays the rarely heard viola d’amore. The concert is part of the ECM Live Week, which gives audiences the opportunity to experience a number of ECM Records’ artists live in concert. The ECM Live Week at Kings Place runs from Wednesday 18 to Saturday 21 March.
Saturday 21 March at 7.30pm
ECM Live at Kings Place
D’Amore
Garth Knox – viola d’amore
Angnès Vestermann – cello
Trygve Seim – saxophones
Frode Haltli – accordion
Kings Place
90 York Way
N1 9AG, London
Tickets: £25.50 / £20.50 / £15.50 / £9.50 via box office 020 7520 1490 or online, click here.