Lisa Dillan is an improvising singer, composer and performing artist. She has worked with several leading jazz- and improvisation musicians and dancers home and abroad, touring in Russia, China, USA, Europe and Scandinavia with her solo concerts and bands. Lisa Dillan is 1. amanuensis in improvisation, educated at the Norwegian State Academy of Music where she also teaches improvisation and jazz singing. She also does workshops, lectures and seminars on improvisation. Lisa Dillan (1969) is a singer, composer and performing artist. She was born in Bod, Norway, in 1969, and started her singing career in Bod Big Band about 1991. Bod has a unique jazz environment with eminent musicians such as Jan Gunnar Hoff, B鴕ge P. 豽erleir, Finn Sletten, Henning Gravrok and others, and it was these musicians who contributed greatly to Lisa’s first experiences as a performing jazz singer. A jazz course arranged by The Norwegian Jazz Association in 1992 brought Lisa into contact with Sidsel Endresen and free improvisation as a performing medium and art form. Sidsel contributed particularly to Lisa’s finding her own style as a singer, and freely improvised music has also become Lisa’s main form of expression since 1997. During the period of 1990–1996 it was still the standard jazz repertoire that was Lisa’s “school”, in addition to her own compositions. After an encounter with pianist Steve Dobrogozs at Sinus Jazz Club in Bod, Lisa was sent 7–8 songs from Steve. Some of these tunes were aired on NRK radio in 1994, featuring Tord Gustavsen on piano. In 1996, Lisa gained admission to the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo, with jazz as her major. Her years at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo were Lisa’s first encounter with contemporary music, and through composers such as LeneGrenager and Jon 豬vind Ness, the term “music” acquired a new meaning. Contemporary music has together with jazz,- noise,- electronic,- ethno, rock music and even dance, influenced Lisa during recent years. Improvisation has been a key element during the entire period, and for the first section of her examination concert in 1997/98, Lisa performed her first solo improvisation. The solo format has in later years become one of the formats she is keenly interested in, and the result of which we can hear on her debut album that was released during the late spring of 2005. In recent years, she has worked with various constellations of performers, and we find her together with names such as Lene Grenager and Hild Sofie Tafjord in the trio "Slinger", Ingar Zach, No Spaghetti Edition, Helge Lien, Geir Lysne and with Anne-Lise Berntsen in the improvisational duo "Hipp, hipp..", taped for NRK TV. The latter was chosen as NRK's entry in the "Gullpalmen" awards in 2002. The same year, Lisa was invited to join Sidsel Endresen's band for the commissioned work "Living Rooms" for the 30th anniversary of "Nattjazz" in Bergen, working alongside Solveig Slettahjell, Christian Wallumr鴇, Jan Bang and video artist Tone Myskja. Currently, Lisa works with various performers using a variety of forms of [removed]see below, as well as under "projects" on the website, for an updated overview).