Crossing boundaries
“Music and art exists to awaken the best in us”, says Sevåg. He would know, his music has crossed many borders, and his audience is to be found in all corners of the world.
Since the release of his first album in the USA in 1991, Close Your Eyes and See, his critically acclaimed and award-winning albums have been sold in more than 100 countries around the world. His original synthesis of musical styles, has become his unique calling-card in the music-world.
Sevåg’s projects have featured collaborations with many of Norway’s finest jazz musicians, including Bendik Hofseth, Nils Petter Molvær, Petter Wettre, Paolo Vinaccia, Eivind Aarset and Audun Erlien. They have also seen him join forces with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as several outstanding chamber-music ensembles, such as The Vertavo String Quartet and the Bergen Wind Quintet.
His catalogue includes several crossover-productions ( jazz, rock, world, ambient ), as well as pure classical chamber-music recordings, and avant-garde electronica.
His music has been used in several movie- and television-productions.
Sevåg has become known in the USA as a modern representative of the European tradition of composing, as his work often pulls on the polyphonic techniques of the 17th and 18th century.
His comprehensive knowledge within several different fields, has earned him a reputation as somewhat of a renaissance-man.
In 1990 he was offered a job as head-technician at a studio in New York, after mixing an album for Police-guitarist Andy Summers. Despite this prestigious offer, Sevåg chose to remain in Norway to continue work on his own music.
Two years later, he signed a contract with BMG/Windham Hill Records in the USA, and saw his music distributed throughout the entire world.
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