Joern Skogheim

Who is Joern Skogheim?

Jørn Skogheim is a guitarist, clarinetist, composer, recording artist, producer, arranger and music teacher. Skogheim also masters the fine art of whistling. He has played concerts on violin and clarinet since he was 10–11 years old and guitar since he was 16 years old.

Skogheim has played concerts and had tours with own projects in Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Germany, plus TV and radio appearances in Norway and the Baltic states. In Latvia and Estonia he met musicians from New York City that he connected with, and he moved to "The Big Apple" and lived as a musician and composer there in the autumn of 1998. Notable places where he has performed are "Jazzkaar" 1998 in Tallinn, "Riga Jazz festival" - 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001, "Kaunas Jazz Festival" 2000, Molde Jazz Festival 1998, Mandal Jazz Festival, Garching in Germany 2007, New Music festival 1997 in Riga that was broadcast in the whole territory of the former Soviet Union and more.

Skogheim has played with Frank Foster, Adam Nussbaum, Trygve Seim, Egil Kapstad, Tom S Lund, Mary Ann Mcsweeney, Frode Berge and many more.