Christian Wallumrød

Pianist and composer Christian Wallumrød was born in 1971 in Kongsberg, Norway. He began playing piano at the age of 12 and by 15 he had fallen under the pull of jazz, and made it the center of his studies while attending the music conservatory in Trondheim. Wallumrød began playing piano professionally with guitarist Jon Eberson in 1993, but after 1997 he began to be increasingly involved in his own projects, attracting the attention of Manfred Eicher of ECM Records, who released an album, No Birch, attributed to the Christian Wallumrød Trio, on the label in 1998. Sofienberg V...