Sondre Meisfjord is a Norwegian folk musician (contrabass), who grew up in Frei

Frei

Frei is a village, island, and former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the present-day municipality of Kristiansund between the Kvernesfjord and Freifjord...

, Nordmøre

Nordmøre

Nordmøre is a traditional district in the Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal. The area comprises the northern third of the county including the municipalities of Kristiansund, Averøy, Tingvoll, Surnadal, Rindal, Aure, Halsa, Eide, Sunndal, Gjemnes, and Smøla...

 and studied at Jazzlinja (NTNU) (1998–2001).

He won Spellemannprisen

Spellemannprisen

Spellemannprisen is an award presented to Norwegian musicians for their contributions.-Operation:The award was established on the initiative of International Federation of the Phonographic Industry , an organization that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide...

 (2002) with the jazz band Come Shine

Come Shine

Come Shine is a Norwegian jazz band, with Erlend Skomsvoll , Håkon Mjåset Johansen , Sondre Meisfjord and Live Maria Roggen .-1...

 (1998–2003), played Norwegian folk music with the Flukt trio, Irish folk music in Musharings, cool jazz in John Pål Inderberg

John Pål Inderberg

John Pål Inderberg is a versatile saxophonist with a natural spontaneity of expression and one of the leading traditional musicians in Norway...

's The Zetting, pop in Siri Gjære's band, and was in the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra with Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...

. Other musicians he has worked with include Odd Nordstoga

Odd Nordstoga

Odd Nordstoga is a musician, actor and editor from Vinje in Telemark, Norway. In 2004, he went from relative obscurity to becoming the country's biggest selling recording artist, with the phenomenal success of his first solo album proper, "Luring"...

, Dadafon

Dadafon

Dadafon, previously called Coloured Moods, is a band from Norway, formed in 1995 by drummer Martin Smidt, Kristin Asbjønsen , Carl Haakon Waadeland, Jostein Ansnes and Bjørn Ole Solberg. The band has African music influences....

, Kringkastingsorkesteret, TrondheimSolistene, Kari Bremnes

Kari Bremnes

Kari Bremnes is a Norwegian singer and songwriter.She got an M.A. in language, literature , history and theater studies from the University of Oslo, and worked as a journalist for several years before deciding to dedicate herself to music full time.In 1987 she received the Spellemannprisen for the...

, Dipsomaniacs, Gjermund Larsen, Tord Gustavsen

Tord Gustavsen

Tord Gustavsen is a jazz pianist. Before studying music, Gustavsen finished a degree in psychology. He studied jazz at the Conservatory of Music Trondheim and jazz theory at the University of Oslo. He has toured internationally several times has been a bandleader of a trio and a later ensemble...

, and Stig Rennestraum.

Recently he has played with the Urban Tunélls Klezmerband.