North Project is a collaboration between cellist and vocalist Linnea Hildén, trumpeteer Øyvind Solheim, percussionist and vocalist Mette Marie Ørnstrup and visual artist and writer Jacinta Madsen.
With great curiosity, the concert meets the present moment and sets perception free — like a balloon, the world expands and bursts its boundaries, wildly beautiful, resounding and quiet.

About the artists:

Jacinta Madsen (DK) is a practicing visual artist and storyteller with a studio in Sydhavnen, Aarhus. She works with visual improvisation and is inspired by exploring the borderlands between different genres and forms of expression.

Vocalist and percussionist Mette Marie (DK) has explored many musical borderlands, both as an improviser, performer, and global musician. She has traveled the world with her music and, among other things, lived in Istanbul for one and a half years, where she studied classical Ottoman music and vocal perfor...

North Project is a collaboration between cellist and vocalist Linnea Hildén, trumpeteer Øyvind Solheim, percussionist and vocalist Mette Marie Ørnstrup and visual artist and writer Jacinta Madsen.
With great curiosity, the concert meets the present moment and sets perception free — like a balloon, the world expands and bursts its boundaries, wildly beautiful, resounding and quiet.

About the artists:

Jacinta Madsen (DK) is a practicing visual artist and storyteller with a studio in Sydhavnen, Aarhus. She works with visual improvisation and is inspired by exploring the borderlands between different genres and forms of expression.

Vocalist and percussionist Mette Marie (DK) has explored many musical borderlands, both as an improviser, performer, and global musician. She has traveled the world with her music and, among other things, lived in Istanbul for one and a half years, where she studied classical Ottoman music and vocal performance at the conservatory.
With one foot in free improvisation and another in world music, Mette Marie presents a wide range of musical landscapes and structures.

Linnea Hildén is a Finnish composer, cellist-vocalist, and producer who thrives in the borderlands between genres and expressions. With a broad musical background rooted in jazz, classical music, improvisation, and experimental electronic music, their work often moves at the intersection of the acoustic and the electronic, driven by an ambition to find something new, unexpected, and honest. Educated at the Sibelius Academy, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, they have built a wide-ranging skill set and actively collaborate within the Nordic professional music scenes.

Øyvind Solheim is a trumpet player and composer from Norway, currently living and working in Stockholm as a freelance musician. He incorporates live electronics in several of his current projects, which for the most part is in the world of contemporary improvised music and jazz, but also takes much inspiration from other spheres of music such as classical and folk music. With an education half and half from the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm he has had the privilege of playing with and being influenced by a wide array of styles and sounds, which he synthesizes into his own musical voice....

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