Tora Augestad
| Tora Augestad | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Tora Karen Elisabeth Augestad |
| Born |
10 December 1979 Bergen, Norway |
| Genres | Jazz, classical music and cabaret |
| Occupations | Musician, conductor and actor |
| Instruments | Vocals |
Tora Karen Elisabeth Augestad (born 10 December 1979 in Bergen, Norway)[1] is a Norwegian Musician (vocals), musical conductor and actor, and the daughter of Program 81/82 vocalist Kate Augestad (born 1956).[2] She focuses on jazz, musical theater, contemporary music, and cabaret. Her stage debut was the lead role in Annie in 1994, and won the Norwegian talent competition in 1993 at TV 2.[1]
Education
Augestad was educated at the Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo and the Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm and has studied singing with such as Torsten Föllinger and Ståle Ytterli, both classical music and jazz. She holds a Master's degree in cabaret singing at Norges Musikkhøgskole with particular emphasis on Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill and American cabaret.[1][3][4]
Career
She sang in "Det Norske Solistkor" (2000–2005) and the vocal band Pitsj (1999-2006). She is the lead singer in the ensemble Music for a while, with the record release Weill Variations (2007).[5] They released their second album Graces that refrain (2012) accompanied by a tour in Norway.[6] She has been a soloist at the show The Source: Of Christmas with "The Source", participated in various cabarets and operas is and has been an actor/singer at "Teater Ibsen" in Skien as well as at the Riksteatret. She conducted the "Norges ungdomskor" (200-06). She is singing in the trio BOA, has been a soloist with various orchestras and ensembles, including the Oslo Sinfonietta during the "Oslo Kammermusikkfestival".[1][3][7]
Augestad moved to Berlin in 2007, and has been currently working with some of Europe's leading ensembles for contemporary music including Ensemble Modern and Klangforum Wien. October 15, 2010 she was a guest on the Beat for beat, a program at NRK1.[1]
Siden 2009 har hun arbeidet med den sveitsiske stjerneregissøren Christoph Marthaler. Hun har medvirket i følgende av hans produksjoner ved operaen i Basel: som solist i "Wüstenbuch" (opera av Beat Furrer), i "Meine faire Dame – ein Sprachlabor", og "Lo Stimolatore Cardiaco".[1][3]
Augestad had her debut in 2012 at the Zürich Opera in a new production by Christoph Marthaler with soloist Anne Sofie von Otter among others.[1][3][8]
Discography
- 2006: Pitsj (Grappa Music), within Pitsj[9]
- 2007: Weill Variations (Grappa Music), within Music for a While
- 2012: Graces that refrain (Grappa Music)
- 2013: mOOn Over tOwns (Grappa Music)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Tora Augestad Biography" (in Norwegian). BjornsonFestivalen.no.)
- ↑ "Program 81" (in Norwegian). Ballade.no.)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Tora Augestad Bransjeregister" (in Norwegian). MIC.no.)
- ↑ "Tora Augestad: Multiformatert" (in Norwegian). Ballade.no.)
- ↑ "Traumland Youkali liegt im hohen Norden" (in German). MZ-Web.de.)
- ↑ "Music for a while på Sørnorskturné" (in Norwegian). JazzINorge.no.)
- ↑ "Ung sopran i krevende rolle" (in Norwegian). BT.no.)
- ↑ "Tora Augestad". Karstenwitt.com.
- ↑ "Pitsj". MusicOnline.no.