Frode Haltli

Frode Haltli is a Norwegian accordionist and composer, born on 15 May 1975 in Levanger. He works across contemporary music, jazz, improvisation and Norwegian folk music, and has recorded mainly for ECM and Hubro. His ECM debut Looking on Darkness (2002) won the Spellemannprisen for contemporary music, and he leads the ensemble Avant Folk, whose first album came out in 2018. Haltli studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen until 2000. In 1999 he co-founded the trio POING with Rolf-Erik Nystrøm and Håkon Thelin.