Høgemo, Håkon

Håkon Høgemo has been a free-lance musician since 1993. On his instrument, the hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle), he won the Landskappleik, the Norwegian national fiddling championship, in 1989 and 1995. For over ten years Håkon has performed solo and with various ensembles. He has performed at the Olympic Games in the U.S. and in Nagano, Japan. He has toured together with the hardingfele player Knut Hamre from 1995 to the present, and with Tom Karlsrud and Judith Vestreim since 1996. He has also toured with the group Slåttetrioen from 1995 to 1998 and with UTLA since 1992. He has taught hardingfele at the Ole Bull Academy in Voss since 1993, and at the Grieg Academy at the University of Bergen in 1995-96. He has been a teacher at the Osterøy community music school from 1994 to the present.

Discography

1988: Å fela ho let
1988: Mellom vener
1992: UTLA (nominated for the Spelemannsprisen)
1933: Juv
1994: Bufaste tonar
1995: Brodd
1999: Dans
2000: Solo
2001: Marylands