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Hilde Hefte
Profile Information:
- About me:
- A Brief Biographical Resume.
When Hilde Hefte released her first solo album in 1999 Down Beat wrote: "She’s making waves on the Norwegian scene”.
Hilde Hefte is not a beginner. She has studied music at the highly respected Barratt-Dues Music Intitute with piano as her main instrument. She has also been playing guitar, alto saxophone and Bb clarinet. And she has studied acting at Nordic Institute for Scene and Studio. For one periode she was teacher at Vest-Agder Music Conservatorium.
She has written lyrics and composed music for her own productions as well as for other musicians and singers, has composed and arranged music for theatre productions.
Hilde is what they call the musicians musician and known as one of the leading jazz vocalists in Norway.
She’s released 5 solo albums to fantastic reviews.
Her first CD was a tribute to Chet Baker, "'Round Chet's Midnight", and it was named the album of the year in Norway’s largest jazz-magazine Jazznytt. Her second CD was a tribute to the fantastic pianist Bill Evans, "Playsong - the music of Bill Evans", and as well as her first CD, this became the album of the year in Norway.
Hildes bossaHefte is her 3rd CD and is a tribute to the great Brazilian music style Bossa Nova, and the great bossa composers. The reviews have been wonderful – all newspapers in Norway gave this album dice-trow 5 and 6. This is her only album in her own language.
Then she recorded what she called her memory album “On The Corner” before she went to Prague and recorded her latest album together with her band and The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra “AN EVENING IN PRAGUE”.
This CD has been given some outstanding reviews in newspapers, magazines and on NRK (Norwegian Radio Broadcasting) TV and radio.
Her band is the leading jazz musicians and composers in Norway and Sweden with:
Egil Kapstad piano (NO), Bjørn Alterhaug double bass (NO), Eyvind Wahlen drums (NO),
Nisse Sandström tenor sax (SE), Jan Allan trumpet (SE).
For her work Hilde Hefte has received various grant and prizes.
The short version of my life :-)
Visiting Bev:
- Website:
- http://www.hildehefte.no
Hilde Hefte
Egil Kapstad (jazz pianist and composer) wrote a composition once called Titmouse Blues and I wrote the lyrics for it.
I love these birds.
What a gift to receive from you.
Thank you!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Love and hugs
Hilde
Feb 13, 2010
RUBIANO Gérard
Hello from France near Monaco ! I hope that you are fine ?
I would like to invite you to sing near Monaco in eze-village as I told you few month ago...so, if you are interested please go to this website :
http://www.gotoextremes.org
Read what is in this website and tell me if you are agree to sing to honorate "Stan Getz memory", I organize this event to make people meeting together from "Stan Getz Community"...in the same time there will be some exposure of paintings!!
Please, go to this web site and ask Bev to come with you at this event!
It will take place for the concert on 21th of August 2010 and the painting exposure will be during all this week, between 20th to 27th of August !!
Please come, I could arrange it for you !!!
All my best regards!!
Gérard
Feb 15, 2010
RUBIANO Gérard
I hope that all is O.Kay for you and that you feel good ! How is your last record?
I would like to know if you are going to come in France for playing to the concert I 'm sure now to organize in eze-Village near Monaco and Nice in August 21 th, 2010 !!!
Tell me ...you can have a look on our special website to know how it will be ...if you click on the U.S flag you will obtain the english version:
http://www.gotoextremes.org
I'm waiting to know what you are thinking of this?
All my best regards...the concert will be to honorate Stan Getz !
We hope to have you, Bev Getz and Glenn Zottola...and I'm trying to organize with this concert also the first international meeting of the "STAN GETZ COMMUNITY MEMBERS" !!!!!!!!
Please, say it to Bev and Glenn!!!
Your friend!
Gérard
Feb 19, 2010