Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: We are? // Jazzfest 2026

What does it mean to “become” together? What is the word for the opposite of loneliness?

Heida Karine Jóhannesdóttir Mobeck takes over as artistic director of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. This evening we will have a first encounter with her first work with the orchestra.

We are? is Heida's main focus as artistic director for the next three years, a living development space for new music, new forms of collaboration and new audience relationships. The project stems from the original power of jazz as a collective, political, improvised and social art form, and questions the expectation of finished works. Instead, the process is highlighted as an artistic method and shared practice.

The core of We are? is listening, to each other, to the places we find ourselves in, and to the time we live in. The work asks open questions: What is here? Where do we stand locally right now? What do we need at this moment? And how can we make something together from what we have here? The music is formed collectively, by being inspired by each other, in the tension between composed structures and improvisation, where initiatives can be taken, responded to, changed and carried forward.

Sara Fjeldvær – vocals, guitar
Trond Wiger - vocals, rap
Hans Hulbækmo - percussion, fiddle
Marianna Sangita - percussion, vocals
Siri Gjære – vocals
Viktor Wilhelmsen - guitar, vocals, joik
Selma Sophie Tudor Edwards Granly - cello, vocals
Emil Bø – trombone
Mikkel Amundsen – trumpet
Guri Simone Øveraas - scenography and costumes, vocals
Peder Overvik Stuberg – guitar
Heida Karine Johannesdottir Mobeck - tuba, vocals
Åsne Fossmark - saxophone, vocals
Rannei Grenne – dance
Nina Wollny – dance

INFO
Sitting
Duration: 75-90 min

Doors: 15 min before

ACCESSIBILITY DOKKHUSET
https://www.jazzfest.no/en/arena/dokkhuset