Over the past 4 years Maja has worked at Bleasedale special needs school in Silverdale. Bleasdale has children from the age of 4-19 with profound and multiple learning disablitities. She comes into school every week on a Tuesday and does musical adventures with the children. The work has resulted in digital compositions and videowork made with […]
This project was a European city of culture commission from Bodø24 (NO) in 2024. It grew out of a residency done on the archipelago of Vega listening and recording the diverse and yet rapid declining birdlife on the island. Suite for seabirds plays with idea of classical suite form while at the samt time telling […]
Nettavisen Norway ***** “Bugge and Evans new album SORTLAND is in an empathic musical landscape where beautiful, searching, and occasionally melancholic melodies are infused with influences from jazz, classical and folk music. Together they create a unique musical gumbo.” Acclaimed cellist Maja Bugge and award-winning pianist Dave Evans has worked together since 2023 creating original compositions […]
“Maja Bugge´s artistic projects are deeply embedded in social and environment thinking.” Anne Yven Jazznytt Norway May 2022. Moot is a playful duo project featuring jazz cellist Maja Bugge and drummer/French horn player Ben McCabe. A concert with MOOT invites you into a meditative and musically adventurous world of Maja Bugges compositions through evocative melodies, beats and […]
“A really amazing experience. I learned a lot about music and how you can use words to express feelings.” Y6 student, Christ Church primary School, Lancaster. ‘Reconnect’ is an exciting multimedia schools project that I have developed together with the internationally acclaimed community-music organisation More Music and music leader/producer Leroy Lupton. Over a 5 week period […]
Maja began working with Sarah Nicolls in 2019 on a Snape Maltings residency and it lead to a work-in-progress showing as part of Snape Maltings “Festival of New” in September 2019. With their shared classical background, a fearless search for new sounds and a desire to create music that , they are now finding […]
Cinclus Cinclus is the Latin name of the Norwegian national bird. It is also is the name of a UK/Norway jazz project for children which explores how improvisation can encourage a young audience to be simultaneously co musicians and listeners. The result is a highly improvised performance of riffs, grooves and tunes coming from the […]
NORTHERN is a new jazz project led by the internationally acclaimed composer and cellist Maja Bugge in collaboration with film maker Adam York Gregory and field recordist Hervé Perez. The artists are presenting the places that we love and know through a musical and visual encounter with our everyday. Playfully and with sense of humor Bugge […]