Martin Taxt

Martin Taxt is a Norwegian tuba player and composer, born in Trondheim in 1981, who works in experimental and improvised music, often on microtonal tuba. He studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Paris Conservatoire. He is known for the tuba trio Microtub and for his solo albums First Room and Second Room, which deal with music and architecture. Martin Taxt has co-run the Norwegian label SOFA since 2010 and helped run the Fri Resonans festival in Trondheim. Microtub, with Robin Hayward and Peder Simonsen, has recorded Star System and Bite of the Orange for SOFA.