André Roligheten is a Norwegian jazz musician who is known for his personal musical playing style and his ability to explore different genres and forms of expression. He has a strong presence in a number of collaborations from Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity, Team Hegdal, Friends & Neighbors, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Susanne Sundfør, to his own release "Roligheten - Homegrown" from 2017. Roligheten has studied improvisation and composition at NTNU in Trondheim and the Norwegian Academy of Music, and worked for 15 years with the duo Albatrosh together with pianist Eyolf Dale who was named "young jazz musician of the year 2008", and won the European Jazz Competition in 2009. As a musician and composer, Roligheten has performed at some of the biggest music festivals in Norway, Europe and the USA, released more than 20 albums with entirely or partly his own compositions, and has collaborated with a number of renowned musicians and artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire, Ståle Storløkken, Jarle Bernhoft, Joshua Redman and Father John Misty, to name a few. Roligheten won the Spellman Prize for "Vol.3" with Team Hegdal in 2015, and has been nominated a number of times with Friends & Neighbors and Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity/Supersonic Orchestra.