The first two EDVARD awards of the year were presented in Bergen on Thursday evening. Øyvind Skarbø was awarded the prize in the Open Class category, and the Contemporary Prize went to Stein Urheim and Jørgen Træen.
/ 02/09/2022 / Kristian DugstadTONO presented the year's first two EDVARD awards on Thursday during an event at Apollon Platebar in connection with the Vill Vill Vest festival.
Øyvind Skarbø has been awarded the prize in the Open Class category for Skarbø Skulekorps' album. Volunteer.
– The music charms and moves with its playfulness and references. It moves between contemporary music, jazz, old TV games, funk and May 17, among other things, the jury writes in its justification.
In the Contemporary category, the Stein Urheim and Jørgen Træen jury will receive the award. They receive it for the music on the album Krympende Klode, which is described by the jury as "a very successful album that fills contemporary musical buzzwords such as "playful" and "genre-transcending" with content."
The EDVARD Prize has been awarded annually by TONO since 1998, and is awarded in five categories to composers and lyricists who have created musical works of particularly high quality in the previous year. A highly qualified professional jury selects the winners.
- TONO has been awarding the EDVARD Prize since 1998. Here we highlight some of the most beautiful music created in the previous year. The purpose is both to honor and thank composers and lyricists, but also to create awareness about the important work they do, says TONO's communications director, Willy Martinsen.
The jury's reasons
OPEN CLASS
Øyvind Skarbø for Volunteering
"On Skarbø Skulekorps' latest release, Dugnad, the musicians have recorded their contributions on different sides of the country. The brains behind it are composer and producer Øyvind Skarbø. The result is a multifaceted mixtape full of musical whims and expressions. On the one hand, it is seemingly random and restless, with moments of surprise and recognition that replace each other. On the other, it is all masterfully united through Øyvind Skarbø's impressive creative and compositional flair. The music charms and moves with its playfulness and its references. It moves between contemporary music, jazz, old TV games, funk and May 17th, among other things. This release is liberatingly impossible to put into a box, and is a worthy winner of this year's Edvard in the Open Class."
SAMTID
Jørgen Træen and Stein Urheim for Shrinking Globe (album)
"Krympende klode is a very successful album that fills contemporary musical buzzwords such as "playful" and "genre-transcending" with content. Træen's sound world has clear references to the early days of electronic music, and Urheim's string instruments are taken from musical cultures all over the world, but in strong compositions, where recordings of animals and people also sound. These sound worlds are illuminated in new ways and the result appears as something completely new and unique. It's fun, it's beautiful and it's thought-provoking."
The jury for the EDVARD Prize 2021 has consisted of Torgny Amdam (NOPA, jury chair), Samsaya Sharma (NOPA), Kristin Norderval (Norwegian Composers' Association), Martin Rane Bauck (Norwegian Composers' Association), Ole Børud, (Independent), Sten Ove Toft (Independent), Oda Svendsby (Music Publishers) and Andrew Smith (Music Publishers).