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Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen

Born: February 4, 1982

Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen is a groundbreaking and influential Norwegian guitarist, working in a wide range of scenes and genres, being an artist with a take-no-prisoners-attitude no matter the task given.

She was born in Ålesund February 4th 1982, her mother played guitar and piano. Her father played trumpet and flügelhorn, appearing at several recordings from the 70-ies and 80-ies, among them Østerdalsmusikk with Jan Garbarek.

Overview

Her work with Hedvig Mollestad Trio, including 7 albums in 10 years, has led to broad international attention and interest. She received the award for This Year's Jazz Talent during Moldejazz in 2009, and on that occasion she founded Hedvig Mollestad Trio. Since 2010, the trio has played hundreds of concerts all over the world. in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, US and Canada. In 2020 she released her first solo record Ekhidna, and received a Norwegian Grammy. Her 2nd solo release, Tempest Revisited, achieved the same award, and her 2021 release with her trio was nominated in the Rock category.

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Enfant Terrible

by John Kelman
July 20, 2014

While making noise with her debut, Shoot! (Rune Grammofon, 2011), it was with All Them Witches (Rune Grammofon, 2013)--and subsequent touring that took her from her home country of Norway, playing at festivals like the 2013 Molde International Jazz Festival, to a short North American tour this year--that guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen's career really took off. ...

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: All of Them Witches

by John Kelman
May 18, 2013

It may well be sexist to suggest that there are few female heavy rock guitarists. Still, as society moves towards greater equity among the genders, there are thankfully a lot more talented and intrepid women transcending conventional expectations of their “place" in music--and few countries exemplifying this more than Norway. Sidsel Endresen may be a singer, ...

Shoot!

By Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen

Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2012
Track listing: 1. Gun and the E-Kid (Bjørnstad/Brekken); 2. Ashes (Mollestad Thomassen); 3. For the Air (Mollestad Thomassen); 4. Doom's Lair (Mollestad Thomassen); 5. The Dead One (Bjørnstad); 6. Sidetracked (Mollestad Thomassen); 7. No Encore (Mollestad Thomassen); 8. Blood Witch (Buzz Osborne); 9. The Valley (Bjørnstad).

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Shoot!

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 16, 2012

Le scarnissime note di copertina dicono poco o nulla di questo power trio norvegese capitanato nientemeno che da una chitarrista hard rock, come si sarebbe detto una volta, che risponde al nome di Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen. È lei la bionda che vedete in copertina e che spara riff al fulmicotone e sventaglia assoli granitici in puro ...