Lauritz Skeidsvoll
is a saxophone player and composer from Kleive in Molde, Norway. He was born in 1994 and started to play the saxophone in his early years. He quickly begun to play in local marching bands and started to take saxophone lessons at the culture school in Molde, when he was 8 years old. The following years he started to play in a band with his brother Isach and two other friends in the neighbourhood: The jazz drummer Rino Sivathas and his brother Rithu. This band built the foundatoin of musical understanding and the joy of playing together.They started playing gigs at local business meetings and other conferences for a couple of years, ending up playing at Molde International Jazz Festival some years later. Lauritz started to study music at the high school in Molde for three years, before serving in the millitary for one year, in His Majesty The Kings Guard marching band. From there he went to Toneheim folk high school, for a whole year with pure jazz studies. He later applied to The norwegian academy of music, and started to study jazz saxophone in Oslo for the next four years, having saxophone lessons with the saxophone player Atle Nymo.