From the trio's release tour in Jan 09:

For the gig in Kristiansund, we're proud to announce drummer and percussionist Per Oddvar Johansen will join us for another quartet happening in Kristiansund on Friday!

Check out Per Oddvars site

NORD SCORE is available on iTunes, click to see Ola's latest blog entry

Ola Kvernbergs movie soundtrack for "Nord" ("North") is nominated for Best Original Music Score at "Amandaprisen" - the most prestigious movie awards in Norway.

..and yes; the soundtrack will be released digitally eventually...!

See the complete list of nominees

The Ola Kvernberg Trio was this weekend officialy appointed to Ambassador of the NTNU University of Trondheim. The Trio was awarded with NOK 50.000, and will probably spend the money on a new studio recording, to be recorded around fall2009/winter2010.

Read articles on these locations:

Official NTNU press release

Adresseavisen

Radio Revolt

National Broadcasting of Norway (NRK)

Romsdals Budstikke

Ola Kvernberg Trio teamed up with drummer/percussionist extraordinaire Børge Fjordheim (Cloroform, Morten Abel, Kaada Orchestra..) for a first time exclusive quartet-happening at Nattjazz, Bergen, last friday. The audience, among them two reviewers, was thrilled about the new sound! At certain points it felt almost like being on stage with the comprehensive Bitches Brew rythm section! Will definetely try to make this happen again..

EDIT: Listen to 6 live tracks from Nattjazz HERE!

Ola Kvernberg will be featured in the program "To og en iPod", a series of portraits of renowned Norwegian musicians. The show will be broadcasted on NRK1 on June 8, 2009. For the impatient ones, or simply the non-Norwegians feeling it'll be over the top to buy flight tickets for Noway in June to see a TV-show, it is already available for streaming online, youtube-style, as well as a podcast.

By the way - its in Norwegian.. and some swearing does occur.