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Liv Andrea Hauge Trio

Liv Andrea Hauge Trio: Ville Blomster

by Ian Patterson
July 19, 2024

Some musicians toil for years to deliver a debut album, perhaps because composing does not come easily. A lack of confidence, or simply the financial burden of recording can also be inhibitors. Other musicians seem to hit the ground running. Liv Andrea Hauge, a pianist and composer from northern Norway belongs in the latter category. Just ...

August Glännestrand

Swedish drummer August Glännestrand plays on the Trondheim and Oslo jazz scenes. He met several of his future collaborators at the Jazz Department of NTNU in Trondheim, where he studied between 2018 and 2021.

Glännestrand plays drums in the Liv Andrea Hauge Trio, with pianist Liv Andrea Hauge and bassist Georgia Wartel Collins. The trio toured Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and the Netherlands, and was selected for the official jazzahead! 2024 showcase. Their album "Ville Blomster" was released on the Norwegian label Hubro, and the trio won the 3rd EJN Zenith Award for emerging artists in 2024, an initiative of the Europe Jazz Network held in collaboration with the 12 Points Festival. A further album, "Døgnville," followed on Hubro in September 2025.

Georgia Wartel Collins

Georgia Wartel Collins is a Swedish/American double bass player based in New York. Jazz and improvisation has always been a strong life force for Georgia with both her parents active in the jazz and performance-art scenes. Her home was always full of live music and the house vibrated with creativity. 

She started playing music at an early age, always intending to improvise. Georgia and her double bass found one another and entered a passionate, complex and long lasting relationship, developing a movement based approach to playing. Her vast explorations of the bass are always in motion.