Featured video:
​Kornstad + KORK Live

Click on the picture and watch the full concert with Kornstad & KORK (The Norwegian Radio Orchestra). The link will take you to the website of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, where the video has been made available for global viewing.

​Enjoy!

Highlights

Marechiare (Tosti) with Norwegian Radio Orchestra
From TV show "Kornstad + KORK", broadcast in Norway on October 27, 2017
Arrangement: Håkon Kornstad. Album:  "KORNSTAD + KORK LIVE" (2017)

L’Ultima Canzone (Tosti) with Norwegian Radio Orchestra
From TV show "Kornstad + KORK", broadcast in Norway on October 27, 2017
Arrangement: Håkon Kornstad. Album:  "KORNSTAD + KORK LIVE" (2017)

“Di tu se fedele” (Verdi, from Ballo in maschera) with
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
From TV show "Kornstad + KORK", broadcast in Norway on October 27, 2017
Arrangement: Erlend Skomsvoll Album: "KORNSTAD + KORK LIVE" (2017)

New videos! 
WDR Funkhaus Orchestra, Cologne

"Håkon Kornstad is a maestro of moods. His secret recipe: He combines jazz and opera in a unique, beautiful and touching way. In this "Happy Hour" with the WDR Funkhaus Orchestra in Cologne, this exceptional Norwegian musician jumps between two contrasting roles: sometimes he is jazz musician with his tenor saxophone — a little later he becomes an opera singer with a warm tenor voice. The repertoire is also far from ordinary. Jazz meets opera and makes a turn into the world of Italian hit songs from the gramophone era.

Go to the wdr site (full concert)

Other highlights...

Håkon Kornstad ist ein Meister der Stimmungen. Sein Geheimrezept: Er verbindet Jazz und Oper auf eine ungehörte, schöne, berührende Weise. In der "Happy Hour" mit dem WDR Funkhausorchester schlüpft der norwegische Ausnahmemusiker gleich in zwei Rollen - mal verkörpert er mit seinem Tenorsaxophon den Jazzmusiker, wenig später wird er mit seiner warmen Tenorstimme dann zum Opernsänger. Die Musikauswahl ist nicht weniger ungewöhnlich: Jazz trifft Oper und macht einen Ausflug in die Welt des italienischen Schlagers."

Live concert, April 12, 2018, WDR Funkhaus, Cologne

Edvard Grieg’s "En svane" ("A swan"), arranged by Erlend Skomsvoll

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Older videos

Jazz vs Opera — A tenor battle
TEDx Talk in Oslo, Dansens Hus (2012)

Håkon Kornstad singing and playing “Marechiare” by F.P. Tosti
Introduced by Alan Alda at the 2014 Kavli Prize, Norwegian tenor saxophonist and tenor Håkon Kornstad is performing his very own rendition of “Marechiare” by Tosti together with the Trondheim Soloists. He also arranged the score, inspired by the golden era recordings of this Neapolitan song.

Tosti’s “Ideale” on Norwegian Broadcasting
NRK TV-aksjonen 2014

Mezzo TV — “Oslo Jazzed Out”
Improvised saxophone piece for French tv channel Mezzo, recorded in the Sofienberg Church in Oslo.

“O del mio dolce ardor” (Gluck/Kornstad), live at Spoleto USA 2014
Live at the Simons Center Recital Hall, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC, USA, June 2014.

Kornstad’s “Sweden”, live at Spoleto USA 2014
Live at the Simons Center Recital Hall, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC, USA, June 2014.