Ole Amund Gjersvik

Career

Gjersvik studied at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Bergen Conservatory of Music, where he has also taught. As a performing musician, he has led his own trios, quartets and quintets as well as tango orchestra Combo Tango. Gjersvik is very versatile and has played with musicians like Kaizers Orchestra, Ketil Bjørnstad, Ole Thomsen, Kåre Thomsen, Ole Paus, Jan Eggum, Herborg Kråkevik and Sissel Kyrkjebø. He has also been widely used in theater and television connection, and has participated on many albums. Under his own name, he has published A Voice from the Past (1990) and Milonga Triste (1998) among others, and Combo Tango Plays Music by Ole Amund Gjersvik (2002). He has received numerous awards and honors, including Rolf Gammleng Award in 2000. Gjersvik is also a dancer and instructor in the Argentine tango. In 1990 he founded his own label, Acoustic Records.

Honors

2000: Gammleng Award

Discography

Soloalbums

Poems for Trio (1988), with Kåre Thomsen & Karl Seglem

A Voice from the Past (1990)

Appasionata Criminelle (1992)

Alone in the Crowd (1993)

Around the Fountain (1994)

Milonga Triste (1999)

Circus (2006), within Ole Amund Gjersvik Quintet

Live In Bergen (2011)

Dialoger (2011), with Tore Thorsen

Bass Improvisations (2011)

Free Approach (2011), with Nils Are Drønen & Stein Urheim

Tranquility (2011), with Tore Thorsen

Duo Improvisations (2011), with Marius Neset

Bergen (2013), with Tore Thorsen

Bass Improvistaions Vol. 2 (2013)

Latin Collection (2013)

Bass Improvistaions Vol. 3 (2013)

Conversations With Myself (2013)

With Trang Fødsel

Bare barnet (1995)

Hybel (1997)

Feber (1998)

Damp (1999)

De aller beste (2005)

Hammock (2007)

With Combo Tango

Combo Tango plays music By Ole Amund Gjersvik (2002)

Milonga del Angel (2007)

Other releases

Bymann Og Stril (1984), with Ivar Medaas & Ove Thue

Knut Gribb Tar Bergenstoget (1986), Den Nationale Scene

Ansikt Til Ansikt (1987), with Ivar Medaas & Ove Thue

Sjeldne Typar (1989), with Ivar Medaas

Stjerner i rennesteinen (1989), with Ole Paus

Soria Moria (1989), with Sissel Kyrkjebø

Lollipop (1989), with Tor Endresen & Rune Larsen

Lollipop 2 (1990), with Tor Endresen & Rune Larsen

Lollipop Jukebox (1991), with Tor Endresen & Rune Larsen

Strange Afternoon (1991), with Secret Mission

Sogn-A-Song (1991), with Karl Seglem

Medaas Gull (1992), with Ivar Medaas

Jeg kaller det vakker musikk: Hjemmevant utenfor - Ca. 40 Beste (1994), with Ole Paus

Langs Fjorden (1994), with Ivar Medaas

Rit (1994), with Karl Seglem

Jeg-En Beach Boy (1994), with Trygve Thue

In A Jazzy Mood (1994), with Clive Scott

Mi Haugtussa (1995), with Herborg Kråkevik

Rusler Rundt Grieg (1996), with Dag Arnesen

Draumespor (1996), with Kenneth Sivertsen

Lykkens narr (1997), with Anne Lorentzen

One Day in October (1999), with Kenneth Sivertsen

Design by Sound (1999), with Jan Kåre Hystad

50 Beste (2001), with Ivar Medaas

Nature Of Two (2001), with Millpond Moon

All of Me - Selected Songs by Billie Holiday (2003), with Kim Fairchild

Till Lands (2003), with Robert Vennström

Someone Cares (2003), with Rannva & Siggi

Berøringer (2004), with Andreas Friis Jørgensen

Cooly Horn (2004), with Cooly Horn

New North (2004), with Karl Seglem

It Was Near I Died (2005), with The Owens

Ocean (2005), with Tron

Dans Til Musikken (2006), tribute to Lasse Myrvold

Barna synger Pophits (2006)

Heaven Help Me (2006), with Steve Morgan

I Grevens Tid (2007)

Shadow Dancing (2008), with Steve Morgan

Røtter (2009), with Rune Larsen

Østenfor Sol" (2010), with Vindrosa

The Ride Back Home" (2010), with Helge Nyheim

Skyt meg med tre roser (2010), with Britt Synnøve Johansen

Chin Of Gold (2011), with Barbro Husdal Quartet

Trio Music (2011), with Carsten Dyngeland Trio

Biter Av Tid (2012) with Kåre Kalvenes

2012 (2012) with Nøkken)

Bakom Fjellet Det Blå (2013) with Vindrosa

Emraceable You (2013) with Hans Marius Andersen Quartet