Music
Guro Skumsnes Moe
Music composer, Musician
Guro is one of Norway's most active and groundbreaking performers and artists. With her bands MoE and Sult, she has toured in over 30 countries on four continents. She can refer to over 20 releases. She has composed music for Plexus Polaire since 2010 (Signals, Opera Opaque, Ashes, Chambre Noire, Moby Dick) and has also composed orchestral works, film music, music for choir and for her chamber orchestra, The Touchables. She has a bachelor's education from the University of Agder, Norway and a master's education from the Oslo Academy of Music.
Håvard Skaset
Guitarist, composer, arranger, businessman
Håvard graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music (Master of performing arts) in 2007. Since then, he has toured more than 30 countries, released and produced more than 25 albums, performed at San Francisco MOMA, The Kitchen New York, Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India), The Venice Biennale, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Russia) .
His most notable work is with the rock band MoE, Sult and his solo project Skaset, but also with artists like Camille Norment and Frode Gjerstad. He has worked with internationally acclaimed artists such as Fred Frith, Keiji Haino, Painjerk, Lasse Marhaug, Ikuro Takahasi, Mette Rasmussen, Bill Orcutt, Maja Ratkje and many more.
He is the CEO in the real estate company Octo B-AS, CEO for the record label ConradSound, and deputy chairman of Børsen Kulturhus; a nonprofit organization providing art spaces for sound art and music in Norway.
Håvard started his collaboration with Plexus Polaire in 2017.
Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen
Music composer, Musician
Ane Marthe studied at the Norwegian Conservatory and in Brussels before working as a freelance performer and percussionist since 2009. She is mainly interested in contemporary music and is always looking for new ways to create sounds. She therefore includes body percussions and different kinds of materials to her music. She is a musician within a chamber music ensemble, the Pinquins trio, the Norwegian radio orchestra and as a solo artist on numerous pieces.
Ane Marthe collaborated with Plexus Polaire on the shows Ashes, Chambre Noire, Moby Dick and Dracula.
Georgia Wartel Collins
Musician
2019 bachelor graduate of 'Jazzlinja’ NTNU in Trondheim and 2022 master graduate of ‘Conservatorium van Amsterdam’, bass player Georgia Wartel Collins can be seen in various bands/project around the globe: she performed at ‘The Luggage Store’ in San Francisco, Vulkan Arena in Oslo, Opus Jazz Club in Budapest, Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana and Bimhuis in Amsterdam. She is the most active in Moby Dick with Plexus Polaire, her own trio Aila trio, the pop/jazz band JUNO, jazz trio Liv Andrea Hauge Trio, the double bass orchestra ‘Kontrabassorkesteret’ led by Ellen Andrea Wang, music/performance group ‘The Rosehips’ and free impro duo ‘music for whales’ and her own solo project. Besides playing, she composes music for her own bands and has composed for theatre piece ‘Portraits and Prayers’ by The Rosehips and for an art film created by director Michele Collins.
Lou Renaud-Bailly
Musician
Lou, polymorphic percussionist, graduated from the CNSMD in Lyon in 2017. She develops sound installations between the scenographic and the instrumental object. Following her first musical and choreographic show, Chroniques Cosmiques, came the second opus entitled Lubulus et Alaïs in partnership with Jeunesses Musicales from France and in duo with flautist and singer Clémence Niclas. Lou is a musician within Percussions de Strasbourg, associate artist of the ensemble TaCTuS and member of the Djeravica ensemble. In addition, she is invited to play within orchestras and early music ensembles such as the National Orchestra of Lyon, the Opéra de Lyon, the Ensemble Correspondances…
Lou started her collaboration on Plexus Polaire with the show Moby Dick.
Emil Storløkken Åse
Musician
Emil graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the jazz department at NTNU in Trondheim in 2021. The multifaceted young guitarist, now living in Oslo, can be seen in a wide array of projects, making his presence felt in the Norwegian and European experimental music scene. As a solo artist and improviser, he has played and collaborated on festivals such as Saalfelden Jazzfestival, JazzFest Berlin and Jazztopad in Wroclaw. With his own trio, Emil Storløkken Åse’s PHOENIX, he has toured around Norway on scenes such as Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo, Dokkhuset in Trondheim, and Hulen in Bergen. Some of the other projects he is active in include nordic pop/jazz tuvahalseband, free improvising noise band Noize R Us, jazzrock quartet The Verge and jazz septet Superflipp.
He started collaborating with Plexus Polaire on Moby Dick in 2022.