Terese Lien Evenstad

Norwegian / Swedish jazz violinist and composer, born April 26, 1991, and based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Evenstad is the first jazz violinist to graduate from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (Kungliga Musikhögskolan I Stockholm). She was nominated for the P2 Jazz Cat "Newcomer of the Year" 2018 and has been awarded the Louis Armstrong Scholarship from the Classical Jazz Association. Her musical roots are in traditional jazz but she moves freely between genres and likes to experiment.