HAFTOR MEDBØE
Genres: Post-Fusion Contemporary, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Nu Jazz • Norway

Haftor Medbøe is a Norwegian-born guitarist, composer and educator living in Edinburgh, Scotland. With his eponymous group, he has recorded five albums and performed live to critical and audience acclaim since its formation in 2006. Haftor has also recorded albums with Anneke Kampman (ex Conquering Animal Sound, ANAKANAK) and clarinetist, Pete Furniss. As a composer, Haftor has scored music for numerous film and television productions including Building a Nation (Wark Clemmens for C4) and the multi award-winning Tartan Short, Cry For Bobo (David Cairns). Other composition credits include the 2014 son et lumiere production, A Night at The Botanics, collaborative installation pieces with artists Alan Kilpatrick and Michele Marcoux, dance/video productions by choreographer/film-maker Katrina MacPherson and commissioned responses to a number of exhibitions for the National Galleries of Scotland. Haftor is Jazz Musician in Residence and Lecturer in Composition at Edinburgh Napier University, where he gained his doctoral degree in 2013. read more...