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Hanna Paulsberg (b. 1987) is a Norwegian saxophonist and composer from Rygge. She leads several projects, among them as the initiator and songwriter for the trio GURLS, with Ellen Andrea Wang on bass. The trio won Spellemannprisen (Norway’s Grammy) in 2018 for its debut album Run Boy, Run. Paulsberg has been a freelance musician since 2010 focusing principally on jazz and rhythmic music, and she is an active musician in the Norwegian jazz scene. In 2020 she was awarded the Oslo Jazz Festival’s Ella Prize prior to her concert at the Victoria National Jazz Stage. In the preceding year she received the Rolf Gammleng Award in the category jazz.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in jazz from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim and a master’s degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Paulsberg was honoured as an NTNU ambassador at the 2015 Trondheim Jazz Festival.

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