Jazz at MUNCH
Jazz at MUNCH is a series with roots going back to the 1960s, when Karin Krog and Johs Bergh invited artists such as Jan Garbarek, Svein Finnerud, Bill Evans and Egil Kapstad to take part in now-legendary concerts in the museum’s exhibition halls at Tøyen. MUNCH is now carrying on this proud tradition at the new museum in Bjørkvika, with a series of concerts programmed in collaboration with Oslo Jazzfestival.
Program for the spring:
March 5th: Thomas Strønen "Et Ørlite Beat"
The work “Et Ørlite Beat” by Thomas Strønen opens the 2026 season of Jazz at Munch. The piece places emphasis on a broader artistic form in which the visual as well as the auditory are brought into focus. Together with a powerhouse ensemble, Strønen takes the audience into a multisensory universe of music, dance, and film.
April 25th: Eivind Aarset 4TET
Eivind Aarset’s latest album Strange Hands features his quartet Audun Erlien (bass), Wetle Holte (drums) and Erland Dahlen (drums). It’s this quartet which performs tonight in the Festsal, in a special concert for their local Oslo audience. With this ensemble, Aarset’s music feels closer to the bone: fewer obvious adornments, more direct impact, yet still bathed in the shifting light and shadow that have made his records so uncannily cinematic.
May 6th: ØKSE
ØKSE is an international all-star experimental jazz band consisting of NYC-based drummer Savannah Harris, Danish saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, Haitian electronic musician Val Jeanty, and Swede Petter Eldh on bass, synths and sampler.
More info and tickets can be found on the MUNCH website.