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Geir Hjorthol
Geir’s working bands for the time being (2021) are Hjorthol & Barth, a duo with Andreas Barth (drums, percussion, electronics) and Quest, an impro-quartet whith Geir, Andreas Barth, Erik Fooladi (percussion) and Torleif Sagstad (guitars). He has also collaborated with other musicians and artists: Magnar Åm (composer and musician within contemporary music and improvisation), Einy Åm Sparks (danser and coreographer), Tyler Sparks (film), Benedicte Maurseth (hardanger fiddle), Lars Amund Vaage (Norwegian author) and different choires. In these and other constellations he has had a large number of conserts through the years.
As a professor of Nordic literature at Volda University College Geir has a particular interest in the relationship between music and literature and has published a number of articles on this topic (see publications in CRIStin: https://www.hivolda.no/tilsette/institutt-sprak-og-litteratur/geir-petter-hjorthol).
Discography: In These Times (Farmorhuset 2021). Hjorthol & Barth Den raude staden (Farmorhuset 2019). Hjorthol & Barth with Lars Amund Vaage The Broken Vessel (Ravello Records 2018). Andreas Barth, Geir Hjorthol, Magnar Åm Ramme (Farmorhuset 2014). Hjorthol & Barth Rom (Questmusic 2004). Quest (Erik Fooladi, Geir Hjorthol and Torleif Sagstad)