Cultural Award for Jazz Musician and Composer – rbnett.no

The Vestnes presidency has approved the attribution of the cultural award of the municipality for 2018 during a meeting on Monday.

The price of the culture is a NOK 10,000 check and a cultural reward diploma.

The publisher, Tore Gjelsten in Fiksdal, was the publisher of jazz musician and composer Terje Rypdal.

On the field, Terje Rypdal highlights his long and controversial career as one of Norway's greatest musicians and composers of jazz and contemporary music.

"His compositions and performances will likely be" demanding music "and it is a music that should be listened to, but he enjoys great respect for his compositions and his performances at He has a long and rich career with the Vanguards, and in the last ten years he has performed at Molde Jazz twice, and as a resident artist in 2008, he has been back in the year. last with the conspiracy of the group, which deserves to be mentioned especially when Molde Jazz has great strength in the jazz genre on the other side of the fjord street in the commune of Vestnes ", indicates the 39, statement of reasons to the proposer of the proposal.

Terje Rypdal has also received three award-winning awards, including the 2005 honorary award. He has made numerous concerts and albums, and is incorporated in the Rockheim Hall of Fame.

"Unknowingly, I think he's drawing a lot of inspiration from his stay in a place as nice as Tresfjord, surrounded by fjords and mountains. One of his albums is entitled "If mountains could sing" player award in 1995.

Terje Rypdal has received numerous prizes and awards, but he has not yet received the best of all the "Culture Prize of the Municipality of Vestnes". The municipality of Vestnes can be proud to have such a musician in the municipality. Terje Rypdal deserves it for his long and controversial career during which he accompanied and placed the municipality of Vestnes in Norway and Europe. He is therefore an excellent candidate for this, "it is stated in the explanatory memorandum.

The awarding of the 2018 Cultural Prize will take place at the last city council meeting before Christmas, Tuesday, December 18th.