Gunnar Halle is a Norwegian trumpet player living in Oslo, playing mainly with Norwegian, Danish and Swedish groups.
Gunnar grew up just outside Oslo, played classical music as a child and like most other horn players from Norway he played in the local school band. He started playing in different groups around Sandvika, Bærum from 1988-1992 like Erlend Skomsvoll’s ’Hvorfor Ikke?’ and ‘Musikkflekken Workshop Big Band’, playing the music of saxophonist Vidar Johansen and Tore Brunborg amongst others.
From 1993 he did his one-year military service at HMKG, and after that he studied music and philosophy at the University in Oslo until 1997, before he moved to Copenhagen.
Educated at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen 1997-2002. Stayed and worked in Copenhagen Denmark until 2007. In this period he toured and recorded with numerous groups; Tys Tys, Nowhereland, Jogujo Circuit, Susi Hyldgaard, Fredrik Lundin Overdrive, Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Kari Ikkonen Karikko, Josephine Cronholm and Lisbeth Diers were some of them.
Gunnar was also one of the early members and founders of ILK, Independent Label of København, where he released eight records in this ten years period. Two of them was with electronica trio Jogujo Circuit where he composed and produced it all together with Joakim Frøystein. He was nominated for a Danish Grammy in 2004 as ’new jazz-name of the year’. Tys Tys received a Grammy for ’Go get some’ the same year.
