EDVARD: Here are the nominees in the Open Class category

Hanne Kolstø, Kjetil Møster and Morten Quenild have been nominated for the EDVARD Prize in the Open Class category.

This year, the EDVARD jury has decided to nominate three authors in each of the five EDVARD categories: Contemporary, Text, Open Class, Popular and Challenger. The winners in the different categories will be announced in late summer and autumn 2016. We will announce the nominees in the different categories in the coming weeks.

Here are the nominees in the Open Class category:

Kjetil Møster for "When You Cut Into The Present"

– WOW! It was an incredibly pleasant surprise! Especially since my son's name is Edvard, and the band's first album, Edvard Lygre Møster, is named after him. I am very happy about the honor of being nominated for the EDVARD award, and I feel that the recognition is a great motivation now that we are about to start working on the next album, he says.

Hanne Kolstø for "While we still have light"

– So incredibly nice to be nominated for such a prestigious award! It's a great honor. Now the rest of the day in the studio will probably go by like a breeze, she says.

Morten Quenild for "Personal Piano"

- Otherwise, I just want to say that I simply love TONO! And that I am very happy that someone is holding the reins in a time when everything should preferably be cheap, bad or free, says Morten.