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Gaute Solaas

Saxophonist and composer Gaute Solaas received praise as a “natural” from an early age, primarily focusing on jazz and improvised music. Gaute recorded regularly for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as a child, and received commissions for orchestral scores while still a teen. At 19 he turned professional and toured with Norwegian contemporaries like Erlend Skomsvoll (Chick Corea, Pat Metheny), Eivind Opsvik (Tony Malaby, Bill Frisell) and many more. In 1995 he was accepted to the elite Eastman School of Music as a composer on scholarship. Being drawn to the Big Apple since childhood he first studied at Eastman upstate New York for two years before transferring to The Steinhardt School at NYU, in New York City