Ensemble Denada is not a traditional big band. The idea behind the ensemble is to achieve small-band dynamics with thrice the number of people - for the sound of it! Contrabass clarinet, quadraphonic electronics, 10 formidable horn players and a high-ranking piano quartet conclude the line up.
Ensemble Denada merge European tradition with jazz and native Norwegian expressions into a blend of strict composition and free improvisation. The overwhelming response from press and audiences show that large ensembles definitely have a place in the broadening jazz continuum of the 21st Century.
Ensemble Denada is the large jazz ensemble of East Norway Jazz Center
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AND EVENTS
New Music, new video art
Video artist Anastasia Isachsen has 
now started the creative process on visualizing Helge Sundes new compositions for Denada into video art. Electronica-player Peter Baden will play an important role on stage, making video images and musical output to interact.
anastasiaisachsen.com
upcoming
CONCERTS 2011
25.3 Nasjonal Jazzscene Victoria, Oslo
26.3 Jazzwoche Burghausen
27.5 Elbjazz, Hamburg
28.5 Jazzfest Bonn
30.5 NRK Studio 19, Oslo
10.6 Xerox Rochester
International Jazz festival
11.6 Xerox Rochester
International Jazz festival
12.6 Drom, New York City
24.9 Romerike Storbandfestival, Lillestrøm, Norway
22.10 Jazzfest UNG, Trondheim, Norway
PAST CONCERTS 2010
21.11 Jazz International Rotterdam
20.11 London Jazz Festival
16.10 Lillehammer Jazzfestival
18.9 Sortland Jazzfestival
17.9 St. Wendeler Jazztage
16.9 Tollhaus, Karlsruhe
15.9 Unterfahrt, München
13.9 Centralstation, Darmstadt
12.9 Asker Kulturhus
23.7 Molde International Jazz Festival
22.7 Stryn Kulturhus
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AND MANAGEMENT
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Helge Sunde Ensemble Denada
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Helge Sunde Ensemble Denada at St Wendel by Jean M Laffitau
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Olga Konkova
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Helge Sunde
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Helge Sunde portrait
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Helge Sunde & Anders Eriksson receive ECHO award
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Helge Sunde playing trombone
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AND LINE UP
Tech. Rider 2011 PDF
Line up Ensemble Denada 2011 PDF
Ensemble Denada Hospitality Rider 2011 PDF
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| Our album “Finding Nymo” (ACT) was awarded the ECHO Deutscher Musikpreis JAZZ 2010 for Big Band album of the year. Ensemble Denadas most frequently featured guest soloists are the musicians of the band. On this album, our saxophonist brothers Frode and Atle Nymo contributed with some astonishing interpretations of Helge Sundes music. | |||
“Finding Nymo” ACT 9492‐2
“So fresh, so hot, complex, passionate and style‐spreading innovative has no big band played for a
long time. Wonderful!”
RONDO Klassik & Jazz Magazin (DE) Werner Stiefele
“A cracker of a contemporary big‐band album...Sunde's Denada ensemble has produced powerful
work before, but the balance of moods, melodic variety and arranging ingenuity on Finding Nymo (the sax‐playing Nymo brothers Frode and Atle are star soloists) ought to raise his standing outside
continental Europe.”
The Guardian (UK) John Fordham
“Piano player Olga Konkova also comes forward with strong minded‐solos and an almost Michelangelan sensitivity in the “travel letter” “Valse Trieste”, in a brief sequence arranged by
Sunde as if it were a love letter from Maria Schneider to Maurice Ravel”
Dagbladet (N) Terje
Mosnes
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video
Helge Sunde Ensemble Denada.,
Jazzfest Bonn May 28 2011
Music: “One Word” and “Obstler” by Helge Sunde
Alto sax solo: Borge Are Halvorsen
Musical director: Helge Sunde
Video art by Anastasia Isachsen
Light design by Tor Ditlevsen
Trumpets: Frank Brodahl, Marius Haltli, Anders Eriksson.
Soprano sax: Frode Nymo. Alto sax: Borge Are Halvorsen. Tenor sax: Atle Nymo.
Bass sax, contra alto clarinet: Nils Jansen.
Trombones: Even Kruse Skatrud, Erik Johannessen, Helge Sunde.
Guitar: Jens Thoresen.
Electronics/live visuals: Peter Baden.
Piano: Olga Konkova.
Bass: Per Mathisen.
Drums: Håkon Mjåset Johansen.
| Ensemble Denada is supported by the City of Oslo and Arts Council Norway | |
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