Mathilde Grooss Viddal

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| name = Mathilde Grooss Viddal

| image = Mathilde sopr-friensemblet-hires7316.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|05|06|df=y}}

| birth_place = Oslo, Norway

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| instrument = Saxophone, clarinet

| genre = Jazz, contemporary music

| occupation = Musician, composer

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| label = {{ubl|Grappa Music|Giraffa Records}}

| associated_acts = {{ubl|Friensemblet|Lucky Loop|Eick/Viddal Duo}}

| website = {{URL|www.mgviddal.com}}

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Mathilde Grooss Viddal (born 6 May 1969) is a Norwegian musician (saxophone and clarinet) and composer, known as the leader of Friensemblet and as member of bands like Lucky Loop and Eick/Viddal Duo.{{cite web |url=http://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2002100713312920271000 |title=Mathilde Grooss Viddal – Saxophonist, Clarinetist, Composer – Bransjeregister |language=Norwegian |publisher=MIC.no |accessdate=2013-11-16}}

Career

Viddal was born in Oslo. She released albums Undergroove (2012) with her band Friensemblet, including live takes at Victoria, the Norwegian Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo, where she presents her more or less uklassifiserbare compositions, representing free spirited contemporary music full of improvisation and freewheeling elements. The collaboration was formed in 2004 by the name Chateau Neuf Friensemble, with a history from the 1960s University Big Band and the musical environment surrounding the Department of Musicology at University of Oslo. She also runs her own record label Giraffa Records.{{cite web |url=http://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_jazz/1.8098001 |title=Møt Mathilde og Friensemblet |language=Norwegian |first=Erling |last=Wicklund |authorlink=Erling Wicklund |publisher=NRK Jazz |date=24 April 2012 |accessdate=2013-11-16}} With Trude Eick she cooperates in the Eick/Viddal Duo and released the album November Log (2008).