Jonas Kilmork Vemøy

Jonas Kilmork Vemøy

Vemøy at Victoria, National Jazz Scene
in Oslo 2010.
Background information
Born (1986-10-12) 12 October 1986
Oslo, Vestfold
Origin Norway
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician and composer
Instruments Trumpet
Labels Cuneiform Records
Associated acts Kristin Minde Band
Pixel
Lama

Jonas Kilmork Vemøy (born 12 October 1986 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (trumpet) and composer, known from collaborations eithin a series of bands and album releases. He was raised in Larvik in the county of Vestfold.

Career

Vemøy was educated at Norwegian Academy of Music (2007–2011) in Oslo, where he studied under teachers Torgrim Sollid and Eckhard Baur. Residing in Oslo he started working as a trumpet teacher educator at the Academy of Music autumn 2011, beside the collaboration within the bands "Blokk 5", Lama, Kristin Minde Band, Pixel, "Simra", "Filter" and Lise Hvoslef Band among other projects. The gig by "Pixel", including the front figure double bassist and vocalist Ellen Andrea Wang, saxophonist Harald Lassen and drummer Jon Audun Baar, was noted as "one of the most memorable moments" of the Match and Fuse Festival, by the Jazz magazine Down Beat.[1]

Honors

Discography

Within "Blokk 5»
Within Lama
Within Pixel
Within Kristin Minde Band
With other projects

References

  1. Graham, Stephen (26 June 2012). "Match & Fuse Artists Light Up London". Down Beat. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  2. "Young Nordic Jazz Comets". Young Nordic Jazz Comets. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  3. "Ukas Urørt (U19) – Blokk 5" (in Norwegian). NRK. 7 May 2007. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  4. 1 2 "Jonas Kilmork Vemøy Discography" (in Norwegian). Discogs.com. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
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