MUSIC FOR A WHILE

MUSIC FOR A WHILE - "ESSAYS"

TORA AUGESTAD, vocals
STIAN CARSTENSEN, accordion, pedal steel guitar & banjo
TRYGVE BRØSKE, grand piano & pump organ
MATHIAS EICK, trumpet
MARTIN TAXT, tuba
PÅL HAUSKEN, drums & percussion
GUEST ON "PUR TI MIRO": MAGNUS STAVELAND, tenor

With the new release "Essays", the ensemble Music For A While continues its journey of interpreting centerpieces of the classical song canon.

Biography

TORA AUGESTAD, mezzo-soprano

”Tora Augestad is far more than an academically trained singer. She lives and suffers through her songs, taking her vocal and theatrical capabilities to the max.” Mitteldeutsche Zeitung

"At one of the festival's opening soirees Svante Henryson had mixed the habanera from Carmen with 'Waltz for Debbie' by Bill Evans, in a duo with the fabulous, operatically-trained jazz singer Tora Augestad. Augestad also fronted what for me was one of the festival's great hits: the sort-of-supergroup Music For A While, with Stian Carstensen on both accordion and pedal steel guitar, Mathias Eick on trumpet, Martin Taxt on tuba, and the drummer Pal Hausken (of In The Country).

Related project: 

MUSIC THEATER

Collaboration with the Swiss director Christoph Marthaler, which began in 2010 with the premiere of Beat Furrer’s music theatre work Wüstenbuch (Klangforum Wien) has since then become a constant in Tora Augestad’s artistic life. Meine faire Dame, Marthaler’s reply to My Fair Lady, which after its success in Basel was taken up by Naples, Avignon, Edinburgh, and Paris, was followed by the Verdi homage Lo Stimolatore Cardiaco.

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