Terese Lien Evenstad

Terese Lien Even­stad is Sweden’s fore­most jazz vio­lin­ist and is a well-estab­lished name on the Swedish jazz scene. She has received sev­er­al awards and schol­ar­ships for her music. She has released four albums in the last five years on her record label Jotun Records and plays exten­sive­ly around Swe­den with the TLE Quar­tet and oth­er projects.

Terese Lien Even­stad was born in Nor­way and is the first jazz vio­lin­ist in his­to­ry to grad­u­ate from the Bachelor’s Pro­gram in Jazz-Per­for­mance at the Roy­al Col­lege of Music in Stock­holm. Her music and per­for­mances have led to a nom­i­na­tion for the pres­ti­gious jazz prize of Jaz­zkat­ten in the cat­e­go­ry New­com­er of the year 2018, which is award­ed by the Swedish nation­al radio P2. She was also award­ed the Louis Arm­strong-schol­ar­ship in 2018 with the moti­va­tion: “She has giv­en the vio­lin a new face in jazz”. Terese has also been hon­ored to per­form her music with Bohus­län Big Band, one of the most well known big bands in Swe­den. She was invit­ed to their project called Up-and-com­ing artists 2019, where they present young musi­cians who have made a name for them­selves in the Swedish jazz soci­ety. In 2019, she was nom­i­nat­ed for the con­cert series “Young Swedish Soloist 2019” pro­duced by Scenkon­st Sörm­land and award­ed the J: son Schol­ar­ship by the leg­endary gui­tarist Janne Schaf­fer (he has played with ABBA, Toto och Bob Mar­ley, among oth­ers). Dur­ing 2020, the group released their sec­ond album, Per­cep­tive.