Per Jørgensen
Per Jørgensen is a Norwegian jazz musician. His main instrument is the trumpet. He also plays the guitar and sings. Among those he has collaborated with are the percussionist Audun Kleive and the pianist Jon Balke.
He and eight others won The Hedda Award 2020 in the best audiovisual design category for their work on 03:08:38 - States of Emergency, Transiteatret-Bergen (2019). The award went to Tore Vagn Lid for the audiovisual design, composition and music, Anders Elsrud Hultgreen (camera), Øystein Nesheim, Arvid Pettersen, Fredrik Rysjedal and Tor Christian Bleikli (light) for the visual effects film, drawing and light, Mathias Grønsdal for the sound and Terje Isungset and Per Jørgensen for the music.
Information
(Objekt ID 24813)| Object type | Person |
| Born | September 9, 1952 |
| Functions | Musician |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Gender | Male |
The Hedda Jury gave the following reason for the award:
"The stories of our time make the strongest impressions when they, like the fairytales of the past, gives room for reflection and recognition. This is such a story. In the way the art of the moment is stretched in time and challenged by space, one can barely see how the smallest analogue or technological detail could have been let go of.
With a miniature world at the core, the winner allows tiny parts to grow into a decentralised monumental work surrounding memories of and form our own time; painful, beautiful and irrevocable. And for every light diode and every musical anchor, the spectator grows increasingly connected to the piece's irreversible vision.
With the precise fingerspitzengefühl of a musical conductor, the director lets lighting and sound designers, musicians, photographers, visual artists and technicians carry a documentary reconstruction with theatre at its fundament, a deepgoing art work about ourselves at a given time: July 22, 2011."
SOURCES:
The Hedda Award, www.heddaprisen.no, 16.07.20, https://www.heddaprisen.no/nominerte/2020
The Hedda Award, heddaprisen.no, 21.09.2020, https://www.heddaprisen.no/vinnere/2020
Store norske leksikon, www.snl.no, 22.11.2011, http://snl.no/Per_J%C3%B8rgensen
| Title | Premiere | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 03:08:38 - States of Emergency. Digital version (Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret Bergen) | March 29, 2020 | Musician |
| PeerGynt DUB (The National Stage) | Navember 22, 2019 | Performer |
| Øyne (Imago Dance Company) | 1996 | Musician |
| Solo () | January 31, 1993 | Musician |
| Watersongs (Kurt Johannessen) | September 2, 1986 | Musician |
| Tilværelsens ensformige mangfold... (Riss Dansekompani) | 1985 | Music, Musician |
| Æ e ikkje aleina* (I am not alone) (The Arctic Theatre) | January 26, 1975 | Musician |
| The Threepenny Opera (The Arctic Theatre) | October 26, 1971 | Musician |
| Csardasfyrstinnen (Rogaland Theatre) | August 25, 1971 | Actor (Tjener) |
| Cleng Peerson (Rogaland Theatre) | Navember 25, 1970 | Actor (Kontoristen) |