| Intro | Norwegian musician |
| Is |
Singer Jazz musician |
| From | Norway |
| Type | Music |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 10 October 1986, Gjøvik, Oppland, Eastern Norway, Norway |
| Age: | 33 years |
Ellen Andrea Wang is a Norwegian Upright bass player, composer and singer. Raised in Søndre Land, Oppland. Wang released her debut album “Diving” in 2014. Wang formed the band Pixel in 2010. Wang is touring with musicians as drummer Manu Katché and Marilyn Mazur. Wang has performed with Sting
Career
Wang started playing the violin at ayoung age, but substituted the violin for an upright bass at the age of sixteen, and attended the Norwegian Academy of Music under guidance of the bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr. She is leading her own Ellen Andrea Wang Trio and the band “Pixel”, is a driving force in the band “SynKoke”, and is in addition part of the band Dag Arnesen Trio (2010 -). The gig by “Pixel” including drummer Jon Audun Baar, trumpeter Jonas Kilmork Vemøy and saxophonist Harald Lassen, was noted as “one of the most memorable moments” of the Match and Fuse Festival, by the Jazz magazine Down Beat.
At Oslo Jazz Festival 2013, Wang for the first time presented a band that bears her name Ellen Andrea Wang Trio. On the keyboards is Andreas Ulvo, well known from the “Eple Trio” and Mathias Eick’s band. On the drums is Erland Dahlen, who collaborates with Nils Petter Molvær and Susanna Wallumrød among others. The trio play an innovative jazz with elements from the rock and pop world.
At Vossajazz 2014, she appeared within Ivar Kolve’s Polyostinat experience. Here she performed with Norwegian elite musicians, and delivered an indulgent poly rhythmic and poly harmonic treat for the discerning ear.
At Moldejazz 2014, Wang presented material from her debut solo album Diving. The Ellen Andrea Wang Trio play a wonderful mix of jazz, pop and rock, with catchy melodies and hypnotic grooves.
In October 2014 the bands “Pixel” and “SynKoke” delivered gigs at the London venue Vortex Jazz Club during the ‘Match and Fuse Festival’.
Wang received the Kongsberg Jazz Festivals great musician price in July 2015. The prize is awarded to a musician who has a leading position on the Norwegian jazz scene.
Honors
- 2011: “This year’s Talent Award” at “DølaJazz»
- 2012: “Statkraft Young Star” at “Oslo Jazzfestival”
- 2012: “New Star of The Month” by the “Japan Magazine”
- 2013: Featured at Young Nordic Jazz Comets within Pixel
- 2015: The Kongsberg Jazz Award (DnB Award) at Kongsberg Jazzfestival
Discography
Solo albums
- 2014: Diving (Propeller Recordings)
- 2009: Hokjønn (AIMSoundCity)
- 2011: The Ideologist (Kokeplate)
- 2012: Reminder (Cuneiform Records)
- 2013: We Are All Small Pixels (Cuneiform Records)
- 2015: Golden Years (Cuneiform Records)
Collaborative works
- 2007: Blå Hymne (Wango Productions)
- 2009: Night Blooms (Termo Records)
- 2010: Norwegian Song 3 (Losen Records)
- 2010: A Light Exists in Spring (NorCD)
- 2011: Terminal Twilight (Termo Records)
- 2014: Beautiful Silence (Grappa Music)