Håkon Kornstad had already enjoyed quite an extensive international career as a jazz saxophonist, with his groups and solo improvisation project. Released multiple Norwegian Grammy nominated albums, reviewed several times by the New York Times, and praised by various international jazz magazines for his alternative saxophone techniques, and for his sound. Then he discovered that he had a voice.	

Two years later, Håkon has started gaining reputation as an operatic tenor in Norway. He was enrolled to the Norwegian Opera School for a master’s degree 2011-2013. Spring 2012 saw him starting to do concerts and include his singing with his solo saxophone show.

A Tenor Battle was when the hipest saxophonists in town competed in playing the fastest and loudest saxophone solo in clubs in the fifties. In Håkon Kornstad’s tenor battle this is a “fight” between an operatic tenor and a tenor saxophonist - in the same man... Kornstad’s tenor battle is still an experiment, but he will perform some concerts in Norway this summer.

Also his solo concerts are starting to see glimpses of tenor singing.

Håkon Kornstad – tenor sax, operatic tenor
— either solo or with:
Per Zanussi – double bass
Sigbjørn Apeland – harmonium
Øyvind Skarbø – percussion