Egil Kapstad

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Egil Kapstad
Born (1940-08-06) 6 August 1940
Oslo, Norway
Genres Jazz
Occupations Musician and composer
Instruments Piano

Egil Kapstad (born 6 August 1940) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and arranger. He stands behind the music for more than 50 productions for theater, and has also composed for film and television drama. Kapstad has written a number of classical works for orchestra, choir, string quartet, and smaller ensembles, and was a chief executive of the association Ny Musikk. He has also worked as a host in television for NRK. Egil Kapstad's Trio worked as a small orchestra in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix of 1965.[1][2]

Career

Kapstad was born in Oslo, Norway. He teaches jazz history and improvisation at the Musikkonservatoriet i Kristiansand. He has contributed as pianist on more than 60 albums, and is known for his longstanding collaboration with poet Jan Erik Vold. He has played with jazz greats like Karin Krog, Chet Baker, Red Mitchell, Bjørn Johansen, Bjarne Nerem, Jon Larsen and Magni Wentzel.[1]

Kapstad has received numerous awards and honors. He received Norsk jazzforbund's Buddyprisen in 1977, NOPA's award for the work of the year, (Epilog) in 1984, Gammleng-prisen in the class jazz in 1985 and was awarded Spellemannprisen in the class jazz twice, for the record Cherokee at the 1989 award of Spellemannprisen and Remembrance with the Egil Kapstad Trio at the 1994 award of Spellemannprisen.[1][2]

Kapstad became a government scholar in 2003.[3]

Works

Compositions (selection)

  • Syner (1967), performed in the new version 1990
  • Epilog – Bill Evans in Memoriam (Vossajazz, 1983)
  • Døgn for kammerorkester
  • Theater music for Shakespeare's King Lear
  • Theater music for Ibsen's Kongsemnerne
  • Theater music for Helge Hagerup's Kuler og krutt i solnedgangen

Discography

As leader
  • Syner (1967)
  • …spiller Einar Schanke (1979)
  • Friends (1980)
  • Epilog – Bill Evans in Memoriam (1984)
  • Cherokee (1988)
  • Remembrance (1993)
  • Wolfvoices (2003)
As sideman
  • By Myself (1964), with Karin Krog
  • Twostep og blå ballader (1974), with Lars Klevstrand
  • I fløyterens hjerte (1990), with Lars Klevstrand
  • I anstendighetens navn (1976), with Ole Paus
  • Everything Happens to Me (1977), with Bjarne Nerem
  • Til jorden (1978), with Rolf Jacobsen
  • Live fra ABC-teatret (1979), with Odd Børretzen & Alf Cranner
  • Live at Jazz Alive (1983), with Thorgeir Stubø
  • Sofies plass (1983), with Magni Wentzel
  • All or Nothing at All (1985), with Magni Wentzel
  • My Wonderful One (1987/88)
  • Dedications (1985), with Per Husby
  • I Hear a Rhapsody (1985), with Totti Bergh
  • Major Blues (1990), with Totti Bergh
  • Time for Love (1986), with Laila Dalseth
  • A Woman's Intuition (1995), with Laila Dalseth
  • Den dagen Lady døde (1986), with Jan Erik Vold
  • Blåmann! Blåmann! (1988), with Jan Erik Vold
  • Sannheten om trikken er at den brenner (1990), with Jan Erik Vold
  • Pytt pytt blues (1992), with Jan Erik Vold
  • Obstfelder Live på Rebekka West (1993), with Jan Erik Vold
  • Her er huset som Per bygde (1996), with Jan Erik Vold
  • Storytellers (1998), with Jan Erik Vold
  • Constellations (1990), with Bjørn Alterhaug
  • Three Shades of Blue (1995), with Staffan William-Olsson
  • Oslo Jazz Circle – Jubileumskonsert (1998), with various artists
  • Round Chet's Midnight (1999), with Hilde Hefte
  • Playsong (2001), with Hilde Hefte
  • First Song (2000), with Bodil Niska
  • Violin (2000), with Ola Kvernberg

References

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Awards
Preceded by
Laila Dalseth
Recipient of the Buddyprisen
1977
Succeeded by
Kristian Bergheim
Preceded by
Arild Andersen
Recipient of the Jazz Gammleng-prisen
1985
Succeeded by
Laila Dalseth
Preceded by
Oslo 13
Recipient of the Jazz Spellemannprisen
1989
Succeeded by
Oslo Groove Company
Preceded by
Radka Toneff & Jon Christensen
Recipient of the Jazz Spellemannprisen
1993
Succeeded by
Vigleik Storaas Trio
Preceded by
The Brazz Brothers
Recipient of the Sildajazzprisen
2001
Succeeded by
Svein Olav Herstad
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