Morten Halle
Biography Morten Halle
Morten Halle
born 1957, lives in Oslo, Norway. Saxophonist and composer.
Halle has played with a large number of Norwegian bands, and has also been active internationally with Jon Balkes Magnetic North Orchestra (1992-2002) and Geir Lysne (1999 to 2009). He has also worked as a producer for Sidsel Endresen, Solveig Slettahjell and "Come Shine". He has received the Norwegian states three year grant for artists both as a musician and a composer. Commisions includes work for the jazz festivals in Molde, Lillehammer and Kongsberg as well as the Bergen International Festival. Halle has also composed, performed and recorded music for a large number of films, theater and ballet productions.
Halle has lived in Oslo all is life except the late seventies when he spent two years in Copenhagen. He studied Musicology at the university in Oslo 1979-1981. He is married to Marit Tovsen who he met in 1980 and married in 1995. Together they have two daughters: Architect Maja (born 1987) and movie director Mariken (born 1982).
He is the son of stage director Barthold Halle (1925) and Lone Halle (1920, Jacobsen by birth, passed away in 1991) and the brother of playwright Jesper Halle (1956).
