For over 20 years, TONO has honored Norwegian composers and lyricists with its EDVARD Prize. Here are the 15 nominees in 2019's five categories.
/ 20/06/2019 / Kristian DugstadHere are the nominees for the 2019 EDVARD Prize.
Hilma Nikolaisen – Music (Album)
Emir Hvidsten Hindic, Kristoffer Uthaug and Mathias Humlen (Sushi x Kobe) – Death Lives Longest (album)
Emilie Nicolas Kongshavn – Tranquille Emile (album)
Cecilie Ore – WaterWorks
Martin Odegaard – For your ears only
Tine Surel Lange – Works for Listening
Christer Espevoll and David Husvik (Azusa) – Heavy Yoke (Album)
Geir Sundstøl – Breadless (Album)
Anja Garbarek – The Road Is Just A Surface (Album)
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer – Klangbiotober (Album and concert)
Ida Iki, Hanna Krogh-Reinsnes and Helge Reinsnes Moen (Blue Baby) – Ancient Call (Album)
Knut Olaf Sunde – Himdalen (Concert)
Robert Eidevik (Heartbeat) – The Night Sailor (Album)
Ingeborg Schistad Tiltvik (Ingeborg Oktober) – Skjømming (Song)
Morten Aasdahl Eliassen (Mae) – Proletarian Nobility (Album)
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Hilma Nikolaisen started her career in the early 2000s, as bassist in the band Serena Maneesh, fronted by her older brother Emil Nikolaisen. In 2015, she made her solo debut with "Ring Ring (Bring It On)" and in 2016, she released her critically acclaimed debut album "Puzzler". This also earned her a Spelleman nomination.
(Photo: Elvira Nikolaisen)
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Sushi x Kobe consists of the rappers Emir Hvidsten Hindic, Kristoffer Uthaug and producer and composer Mathias HumlenThe group has been both criticized and praised for their uncompromising lyrics and music. They debuted their album in 2015 with "Japan", and in 2018 the critically acclaimed follow-up "Døden lever lengst" was released.
(Photo: Isak Andersen)
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Emily Nicolas was noticed from the moment she released her debut single "Pstereo", a version of the DumDum Boys' song of the same name. The cover song was a commissioned work and a stunt for the Pstereo festival in Trondheim, but soon the name Emilie Nicolas was on everyone's lips. Her debut album "Like I'm a Warrior" went straight to the top of the Norwegian album charts when it was released in 2014. With the exception of "Pstereo", Kingshaven wrote and co-produced all the songs on the album for which she also received two Spellemann awards. In 2018, she released her long-awaited second album, "Tranquille Emile", after several years away from the public eye.
(Photo: Lasse Fløde)
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Cecilie Ore studied piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music and in Paris and then composition at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht and with Ton de Leeuw at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. During the 1980s, Ore won international recognition for several of his electroacoustic works.
Since 2000, she has increasingly worked with text-based and socially critical music. The themes range from the death penalty to freedom of expression. In 2008, her chamber opera Dead Beat Escapement premiered at the Norwegian Opera & Ballet. She has been nominated for the EDVARD Prize for WaterWorks, a piece for string quartet.
(Photo: Guri Dahl)
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Martin Odegaard began his music studies in his home county, at Telemark University College. There he studied folk music with Anne Gravir and Sondre Bratland as mentors. He continued his studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he studied composition with Bjørn Kruse, Henrik Hellesteinius and Lasse Thoresen as his main mentors.
The work "For your ears only" is written for chamber orchestra and voices, and was commissioned by the Telemark Chamber Orchestra.
(Photo: Steinar Dahl)
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Tine Surel Lange works as both a composer and visual artist and is based in Lofoten in Nordland. Her musical work encompasses experimental chamber music, electroacoustic works, performance and audiovisual work. She has written music for theatre and dance, and is interested in the three-dimensional and enveloping aspect of music.
Works for Listening is a series of electroacoustic compositions created (and under continuous development) during work stays at Notam (NO), MISC (LT), EMS (SE) and CCRMA (US).
(Photo: Tine Surel Lange)
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The metal band Azusa is an international collaborative project. The group consists of Liam Wilson, formerly of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Eleni Zafiriadou, formerly of SEA + AIR, and the TONO members Christer Espevoll og David Husvik, known from the band Extol. Espevoll and Husvik have been nominated for the EDVARD Prize for their work on the band's debut album Heavy Yoke.
Pictured: David Husvik
(Photo: Simon Skreddernes)
Pictured: Christer Espevoll
(Photo: Simon Skreddernes)
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Geir Sundstøl is a multi-instrumentalist and well-used studio musician among Norwegian artists. Most people have heard him play on recordings or concerts with, for example, Odd Nordstoga, deLillos, Di Derre or Bjørn Eidsvåg. Sundstøl had played on over 260 albums before releasing his solo debut "Furulund" in 2015, after 27 years as a professional musician. "Brødløs" is Sundstøl's third solo album.
(Photo: Raymond Mosken)
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Anja Garbarek debuted as an artist with the album "Velkommen inn" in 1992. Four more albums were released until 2005, and in 2006 she wrote the music for Luc Besson's film "Angel-A". "The Road Is Just A Surface" from 2018 is Garbarek's first release in over ten years, and the album has been praised by critics.
(Photo: Bjørn Opsahl)
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Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer is a vocal artist who draws inspiration from Norwegian folk, ethnic, classical and modern music. She often works with instrumentalists and vocalists with different musical expressions and backgrounds, in everything from concerts, performances, films and installations.
With the project and album "Klangbiotoper", Meyer's intention has been to let the music be a camera eye that takes listeners on a sonic expedition.
(Photo: Carl J. Asquini)
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Blue Baby consists of Ida Iki og Hanna Krogh-Reinsnes and was formed in 2014. The band blends Sami aesthetics and culture with a modern soundscape and the music draws elements from both electronic genres and rock. Biru Baby has been praised by critics for their innovative and fearless music. "Ancient Call", for which they are EDVARD nominated, is the band's second release.
(Photo: Dánil Røkke)
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Knut Olaf Sunde works conceptually with all the music he composes. A concept and a context are the starting point for the works. The composer closely connects music and place, and has composed several works in acoustic landscapes.
The EDVARD-nominated work, “Himdalen”, is an example of this: Himdalen is a small, unpopulated valley an hour east of Oslo. Here is Norway’s only radioactive waste repository. “Himdalen” is an all-night site-specific outdoor concert.
(Photo: Henrik Beck Kæpe)
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Robert Eidevik is a vocalist, songwriter and lyricist in the Bergen band Heartbeat. They made their album debut in 2015 with "Møhlenpris Motell" and were nominated for the Spellemannsprisen in the Rock category with their second album "Vannmann86" in 2016. Eidevik writes semi-biographical texts that deal with the other side of the coin, and he has been nominated for the EDVARD prize for the texts on Hjerteslag's third album "Nattseileren",
(Photo: Even Kjelby)
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Ingeborg Schistad Tiltvik, known as Ingeborg October, is a songwriter, lyricist and folk singer. She released her first single "Evi Melodi" in 2012 and made her album debut with "Hjerteræk" in 2014. For her second album, "Skjømmingsboka", she received a Spellemann in the Folk Song category. This album includes the EDVARD-nominated song "Skjømming".
(Photo: Gry Dahl)
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Morten Aasdahl Eliassen, known as Mae, is a rapper and lyricist from Oslo. In the early 2000s, he operated under the stage name Opaque, and in 2001 released his debut album "Gourmet Garbage". Under the alias Mae, Eliassen writes lyrics in Norwegian, and in 2018, 17 years after his debut, he released the album "Proletar Adel". He himself describes his music as "rap for adults".
(Photo: André Løyning)