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The Blue Whale Big Band at the Seredip festival 2025.

Did you miss the sign-up for this year’s Blue Whale Big Band? Don’t worry! Here’s your chance to join NMH’s large jazz ensemble/big band. Everyone is welcome to sign up.

The world’s largest creature will resurface at the Serendip Festival in February, packed with harps, accordions, strings, woodwinds, and live electronics. Sign up and join Blue Whale and the sinfonietta this spring semester!

New Instrument Combinations

In recent years, we’ve moved further away from the traditional big band setup, aiming to discover new instrument combinations to compose. We create 96 % of our music ourselves and are thrilled with the string players who have joined us – the more, the better! Exotic, endangered wind instruments like the oboe and bassoon are also in demand, and we can never get enough flutes and clarinets of all sizes. Accordion, Hardanger fiddle, harp, French horn – bring it all!

For all of you who play saxophones, trumpets, trombones, or rhythm section instruments, don’t hesitate to sign up. And vocalists – we have thoroughly enjoyed working with singers in recent years and are excited to take this to the next level.

ECTS credits

You’ll earn 2 ECTS credits for each project and gain valuable experience in the rhythmic music scene. (European Jazz Workshop: 3 credits per BIP gathering).

Sign-Up

There’s no official deadline, but sign up as soon as possible.

The Blue Whale and the sinfonietta welcome everyone: string players, wind players, singers, folk musicians, laptop performers – in short, everyone!

Helge Sunde

Planned Projects 2025–2026

  1. November: Studio recording at NOROFF: Week 46 – Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 11–13 November, with a concert in Lindeman Hall on Friday evening, 14 November.
  2. February: Serendip Festival: Blue Whale Orchestra concert, Week 7, Thursday, 12 February, at 18:00 in Lindeman Hall.
  3. February: European Jazz Workshop: The next project is in Vienna, with the first gathering in Week 7.
  4. April: Hybrid Orchestra/Sinfonietta: April, date to be announced.

Contakt person

The greatest of them all is the blue whale! Everyone is welcome.

Helge Sunde