2013 in Norwegian music

Events

January

• 23 Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø.
• 25
• * Nordlysfestivalen started in Tromsø.
• * Nils Anders Mortensen was awarded the Nordlysprisen 2013 at Nordlysfestivalen.
• 31
• * The Polarjazz Festival 2013 started in Longyearbyen.
• * 31 – Kristiansund Opera Festival opened.

  February

March

• 8 – Narvik Winter Festival started.
• 22 – Vossajazz started at Voss.
• 23
• * Tore Brunborg was awarded Vossajazzprisen 2013 as well as the Buddyprisen 2012 at Vossajazz.
• * Stian Carstensen performed the commissioned work Flipp for Vossajazz 2013.
• 27 – Inferno Metal Festival 2014 started in Oslo.

  April

• 24 – SoddJazz 2013 started in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag.

  May

• 22 Festspillene i Bergen starts
• 22 Nattjazz starts in Bergen

  June

• 12 – Bergenfest 2013 started in Bergen.
• 13 – Norwegian Wood 2013 started in Oslo, Norway.

  July

• 3 – Kongsberg Jazzfestival started.
• 7 – Lofoten Piano Festival started in Lofoten.
• 15 Moldejazz starts in Molde with Jason Moran as artist in residence.

  August

• 12 – Oslo Jazzfestival started in Oslo.
• 13 – Erlend Skomsvoll was recipient of the Ella-prisen 2013 at the Oslo Jazzfestival.

  September

• 5 – Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival 2014 starts in Oslo.
• 6 – Punktfestivalen started in Kristiansand.

  October

• 24 – The 12th Insomnia Festival started in Tromsø.
• 25 – The 10th Ekkofestival started in Bergen.
• 29 – The Oslo World Music Festival started in Oslo.

  November

• 13 – The Vardø Blues Festival started.
• 21 – The 8th Barents Jazz, Tromsø International Jazz Festival started.

  December

• 11 – The Nobel Peace Prize Concert was held at Telenor Arena.

  Albums released

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New Artists

• Monica Heldal received the Spellemannprisen award, as 'Best newcomer of the year 2013', for the album Boy From The North and was with that also recipient of the Gramo grant.

  Deaths

• 14 – Morten Mølster, rock guitarist, The September When.
• 25 – Aase Nordmo Løvberg, opera singer.

• 1 – Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, musicologist, contemporary classical composer, music critic and biographer.
• 5 – Egil Hovland, contemporary classical composer.
• 8 – Knut Nesbø, rock and folk guitarist, Di Derre.

• 18 – Eivind Rølles, guitarist and pop singer, The Monroes, cancer.

• 17 – Yngve Moe, jazz and rock bass guitarist, Dance with a Stranger, fell in coma, after drowning in Tenerife, Spain.

• 19 – Anders Vangen, operatic singer.

• 1 – Rolf Graf, jazz-rock bass guitarist, Lava, cancer.
• 29 – Ole Henrik Moe, classical pianist, art historian and critic.

• 18 – Rolv Wesenlund, comedian, singer, jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, writer, and actor.
• 29 – Kjell Lund, architect, songwriter and singer.

• 17 – Alex Naumik, Lithuanian-born artist, songwriter and record producer.
• 24 – Sverre Bruland, classical conductor and trumpeter.
• 26 – Arnstein Johansen, accordionist.

• 2 – Kaare Ørnung, classical pianist, entertainer and music teacher.
• 19 – Lage Fosheim, pop singer, The Monroes, cancer.

  Seed also

• 2013 in Norway
• Music of Norway
• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013