Trondheim Jazzorkester Med Karoline Wallace at Moldejazz at Plassen, Teatret Vårt

Vocalist Karoline Wallace was named the 19th recipient of Norway’s most prestigious music grant during Moldejazz 2025: the SpareBank 1 SMN JazZtipendiat 2025/2026. The award, presented by Midtnorsk Jazzsenter, Moldejazz, Talent Norge, and SpareBank 1 SMN, annually gives a forward-looking and ambitious artist the opportunity to create a new work in collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

A new work about conversations – across languages, species, and forms of expression
Karoline Wallace is currently deep into the composition process and will meet the musicians for the first rehearsal on February 23–24 at Dokkhuset in Trondheim. This will be followed by an intensive rehearsal period just before the premiere in Molde....

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Vocalist Karoline Wallace was named the 19th recipient of Norway’s most prestigious music grant during Moldejazz 2025: the SpareBank 1 SMN JazZtipendiat 2025/2026. The award, presented by Midtnorsk Jazzsenter, Moldejazz, Talent Norge, and SpareBank 1 SMN, annually gives a forward-looking and ambitious artist the opportunity to create a new work in collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

A new work about conversations – across languages, species, and forms of expression
Karoline Wallace is currently deep into the composition process and will meet the musicians for the first rehearsal on February 23–24 at Dokkhuset in Trondheim. This will be followed by an intensive rehearsal period just before the premiere in Molde.

With a background from the Grieg Academy in Bergen, studies in contemporary composition techniques, and a Nordic Master’s in “The Composing Musician” from Copenhagen, Gothenburg, and Oslo, Wallace is known for her open, playful, and poetically exploratory musical worlds. The commissioned work is centered around conversations—both human and non-human—and how communication can be understood as more than just words.

“Conversations across species aren’t just about language—they involve rhythm, resonance, chemistry, signals, patterns, and silence,” says Wallace. She will explore melodies, rhythms, textures, and phrasing from different languages, identify similarities and differences, and use these as musical building blocks in a work that asks the question: What does it really mean to communicate?

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