Pål Hausken


Pål Hausken is a Norwegian Jazz musician, most known from bands like the jazz trio In The Country where he plays together with Morten Qvenild and Roger Arntzen, but also for his collaboration with artists like Susanna Wallumrød, Bull of the Year, Zahl and Music for a While together with Tora Augestad.

Career

Hausken was a music student at the Norwegian Academy of Music when he together with fellow students Morten Qvenild and Roger Arntzen initiated the band In The Country. Here he play a central role as drummer and with five releases this is the most productive of his projects. At the Umea Jazz Festival 2012 they received brilliant critiques and followed up with the fifth album Sunset Sunrise in 2013.

Honors

Central projects

;In The Country
;Susanna Wallumrød
;Zahl
;Music for a While
;Bull of the year
;Hilde Marie Kjersem TUB Quartet
;Kaada
;Gebhardt & Mjøs
;Christer Knutsen
;With Tora Augestad's Music for a While including Mathias Eick, Stian Carstensen and Martin Taxt
;Randi Tytingvåg
;Finland including with Morten Qvenild, Jo Berger Myhre, Ivar Grydeland