Hildegunn Øiseth


Hildegunn Øiseth is a Norwegian Jazz musician.

Career

Øiseth has had a number of appearances in both Norway, South Africa and Pakistan, and was hired as trumpeter in the only professional big band in Scandinavia, Bohuslän Big Band. She left this big band to develop her own projects, and established in South Afrika. The stay in Africa resulted in two album releases by the band "Uhambo". She was instructor and artist at The Groove Valley JazzCamp in Beiarn 2007, and released her debut album as a solo artist with the Hildring, focusing on the traditional instrument Bukkehorn instrument. Here she plays with musicians like Helge A. Nordbakken, Nils-Olav Johansen, Paolo Vinaccia, Eirik-André Rydningen, Karl Oluf Wennerberg, Stein Austrud, Majken Christiansen, Tuva Syvertsen, Mohdi Ahsan Papu, Tore Brunborg, Erlend Gjertsen, Herman Rundberg and Svein Schultz. The follow up, Stillness, received critical acclaim and here she works alternately with Mats Eilertsen, Thomas Strønen and the pianists Torbjørn Dyrud and Eyolf Dale.

Discography

Solo works

;With Lars Jansson & Bohuslän Big Band
;With other projects