Jonas Kilmork Vemøy

Jonas Kilmork Vemøy
Jonas Kilmork Vemøy
	Vemøy at Victoria, National Jazz Scene ; in Oslo 2010.
Background information
Born	12 October 1986 (age 37); Oslo, Vestfold
Origin	Norway
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician and composer
Instrument(s)	Trumpet
Labels	Cuneiform Records

Jonas Kilmork Vemøy (born 12 October 1986 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (trumpet) and composer, member of Maridalen jazz trio, and also known from collaborations within a series of bands and album releases. He was raised in Larvik in the county of Vestfold.

Career[edit]

Vemøy was educated at Norwegian Academy of Music (2007–2011) in Oslo, where he studied under teachers Torgrim Sollid and Eckhard Baur. Residing in Oslo he started working as a trumpet teacher educator at the Academy of Music autumn 2011, beside the collaboration within the bands "Blokk 5", Lama, Kristin Minde Band, Pixel, "Simra", "Filter" and Lise Hvoslef Band among other projects. The gig by "Pixel", including the front figure double bassist and vocalist Ellen Andrea Wang, saxophonist Harald Lassen and drummer Jon Audun Baar, was noted as "one of the most memorable moments" of the Match and Fuse Festival, by the Jazz magazine Down Beat.^[1]

Honors[edit]

2013: Featured at Young Nordic Jazz Comets within Pixel^[2]

Discography[edit]

Within Maridalen

2021: Maridalen (Jazzland Recordings)

Within "Blokk 5»

2007: Scandals and Animals (dBut Records)^[3]
2011: Sing your hart out! (Kennel Records)

Within Lama

2009: Guidebook To Lamaland (Spoon Train Audio)
2009: Look What You Made Us Do (Spoon Train Audio)
2011: Endless Repeats (Spoon Train Audio)

Within Pixel

2012: Reminder (Cuneiform Records)^[4]
2013: We are all small pixels (Cuneiform Records)
2015: Golden Years (Cuneiform Records)

Within Kristin Minde Band

2011: Six Feet Over (VME)
2013: The Weight (VME)

With other projects

2009: If You Don't Have Time To Cook, You Don't Have Time To Live (LP Records), with "Lasse Passage»
2009: Leave Your Friends And Family (Musikkoperatørene), with "The Captain & Me»
2009: På Lag (MUDI), with "Team Båt»
2010: Maneten Medusa (Schmell), with Åshild Watne
2011: Walk in the Light (MUDI), with Jens Andreas Kleieven
2011: Fridas Fabelaktige Ferie (Musikk-Husets Forlag), with Tone Ophus
2011: Hope is happiness (LS Music), with Hilde Dahl
2012: The Rise and Fall (Sony Music), with "Casa Murilo"^[4]
2014: Mapping the Coincidence (Lise Hvoslef Records), with Lise Hvoslef
2014: Kråkesølv (Jansen Plateproduksjon), with Kråkesølv

References[edit]

^ Graham, Stephen (26 June 2012). "Match & Fuse Artists Light Up London". Down Beat. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
^ "Young Nordic Jazz Comets". Young Nordic Jazz Comets. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
^ "Ukas Urørt (U19) – Blokk 5" (in Norwegian). NRK. 7 May 2007. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Jonas Kilmork Vemøy Discography" (in Norwegian). Discogs.com. Retrieved 20 September 2013.

External links[edit]

Pixel Official Website
Lama er et undervanns-monster at Dagbladet (in Norwegian)

[1] Graham, Stephen (26 June 2012). "Match & Fuse Artists Light Up London". Down Beat. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2013.

[2] "Young Nordic Jazz Comets". Young Nordic Jazz Comets. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2013.

[3] "Ukas Urørt (U19) – Blokk 5" (in Norwegian). NRK. 7 May 2007. Retrieved 20 September 2013.

[discogs-4] "Jonas Kilmork Vemøy Discography" (in Norwegian). Discogs.com. Retrieved 20 September 2013.

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