Sandra Kolstad

Sandra Kolstad is the classically trained pianist who stormed into the electronic pop scene with authority receiving rave reviews, Dagsavisen proclaimed her "Norway's new electronic pop queen". She garnerded widspread prace including Aftenposten (Norway’s most widely circulated newspaper) MTV, The 405, The Line Of Best Fit as well as BBC Radio to metnion a few. She is currently preparing her new album, Burning Love. Kolstad uses the distinct world of modular synthesizers to create a warm, yet distant, stringent and floating soundscape. On the album she exposes a brighter, more poppy side to herself – at the same time she’s more experimental than ever before. Halflife is the first single from her coming album, “HALFLIFE deals with paradoxes. Wanting someone who can not be had or choose something that is not entirely possible to choose. To live. To die. To be terrified yet overwhelmingly happy at the same time. Or simply to make heartfelt songs inside a modular vision…to which sometimes the only thing that helps is to dance!” Kolstad works with creative twin and legendary Norwegian producer Yngve Sætre, drummer and co-producer Jonas Barsten and modular synth guru Joakim Fossum. An artist in the truest sense of the word, Kolstad is famous for her visual live shows and award winning music videos. Kolstad has toured extensively in England, USA, Canada, Russia, South America, Spain and Germany. As well as playing some of Scandinavia’s most prestigious summer festivals like Roskilde and Øyafestivalen. In addition to producing and releasing pop music, Kolstad works as a composer in other contexts. She was nominated for Heddaprisen (the Norwegian Tony’s) for the music she wrote for the play Songfuglen at Det Norske Teatret. Since then, she has composed the music for the play “The Family That Could Talk About Everything”, where she also made her debut as an actor. In 2018, Kolstad composed a commissioned piece for Litteraturhuset with French author Edouard Louis, as well as the music for Samlaget's 150th anniversary. Kolstad will star in her debut dancing performance, choreographed by internationally acclaimed director Anne-Linn Akselsen, where she will perform to music that she has composed adding insight into her expression of the music