Audun Skorgen

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| name = Audun Skorgen

| image = Tom Schaefer Band - Audun Skorgen.jpg

| caption = Audun Skorgen at Moldejazz 2019

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1967|02|26}}

| birth_place = Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal

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| origin = Norway

| instrument = Upright bass, bass guitar, guitar

| genre = Jazz

| occupation = Musician, composer

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| label = Magica Records

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| website = {{URL|www.moremusikarane.no/Moeremusikarane/Moeremusikarane/A.-Skorgen}}

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Audun Skorgen (born 25 February 1967) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass and bass guitar).

Career

Skorgen is a graduate of the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium (2000).{{cite web|url=http://www.ntnu.no/jazzlinja25/studentene.htm |title=Jazzlinja |publisher=NTNU.no |accessdate=2013-09-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053706/http://www.ntnu.no/jazzlinja25/studentene.htm |archivedate=21 September 2013 }} He specialized in improvisation, and has a distinctive bottling bass technique. In addition to being an active freelance musician, he has also been a county musician, first in Finnmark and later in Sunndal, Møre og Romsdal, from 2008 as part of "Møremusikarane".{{cite web |url=http://www.moremusikarane.no/Moeremusikarane/Moeremusikarane/A.-Skorgen |title=Audun Skorgen, kontra- og elbass |publisher=Moremusikarane.no |accessdate=2013-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029203558/http://www.moremusikarane.no/Moeremusikarane/Moeremusikarane/A.-Skorgen |archive-date=29 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.mediabasen.no/m/wigdis/guris/bassist |title=Audun Skorgen Bassist |publisher=Mediabasen.no |accessdate=2013-09-29}}

Skorgen has also collaborated within the bands like 'Velvet Lounge Orchestra', including Marita Røstad (vocals and rhodes), Stian Omenås (trumpet), Håvard Stubø (guitar) and Erik Nylander (drums),{{cite web |url=http://www.groove.no/band/44297286/velvet-lounge-orchestra |title=Velvet Lounge Orchestra |publisher=Groove.no |accessdate=2013-09-29}} and 'Frode Grønmyr Quintet' including Grønmyr (gitar), Peter Wergeni (saxophones), Norvall Dahl (piano) and Simon Kongshaug (drums).

Discography

; With Marita Røstad

2007: Silent Sunday (Magica Records){{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Audun+Skorgen |title=Audun Skorgen Discography |publisher=Discogs.com |accessdate=2013-09-29}}