Music maker with an emphasis on musicals, songs and works within the easy listening genre as well as songs and musical play stories for children.

Créateur de musique axé sur les comédies musicales, les chansons et les œuvres du genre d'easy listening ainsi que les chansons et les histoires musicales pour enfants.

Musikschaffender mit Schwerpunkt auf Musicals, Liedern und Werken des Easy-Listening-Genres sowie Liedern und musikalischen Spielgeschichten für Kinder.

Autore musicale specializzato in musical, canzoni e opere del genere easy listening, nonché canzoni e storie teatrali musicali per bambini.

Musikkmaker med hovedvekt på musikaler, enkeltlåter/-verk innen underholdningssjangeren samt sangregler og musikalske lekefortellinger for barn.

Modern classical composer and song writer. I've studied (music) composition in Oslo and Berlin totally seven years. Since 1994 I've been freelancing as composer. 

Komponist og visesanger Geir Hegerstrøm er en erfaren artist med mange jern i ilden. Se www.hegerstrom.no for å lese mer om Geir og hans mange utgivelser.

This is movements from my Guitar Concerto "The Viking Concerto" and My Opera "Sigrid & Eindride".

Gisle Kverndokk (1967) studied composition with Olav Anton Thommessen, Lasse Thoresen and Alfred Janson at The Norwegian State Academy of Music, where he received his Master’s degree in 1994, and with John Corigliano and David Diamond at The Juilliard School in New York. 
At the age of 15 he wrote a radio opera commissioned by the Norwegian Broadcasting Cor- poration. The Norwegian State Academy of Music premiered his first full-scale opera «The Falcon Tower» in 1990. His next opera ”George’s Marvellous Medicine” was premiered by The Kristiansund Opera in 1995, and was awarded Work of the Year by The Norwegian Com- posers Society. It has since then been produced by The Norwegian Opera in Oslo, Opera Vest in Bergen, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Ringsakeroperaen and was presented at The Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany 1997. The Norwegian Broadcasting Company has also produced it as a radio production.
All the major orchestras in Norway has performed his works, among them The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. In the 1999-2000 season he was “Composer of the year” with The Trondheim Symphony Or- chestra. His “Selene” for orchestra was among the winners of The Juilliard Composers Com- petition 1992, and “Initiation” for violin and orchestra won 1. prize in the competition for composers under 30 in The 1993 Paris ROSTRUM. “Symphonic dances” was premiered by Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in April 2014.
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With librettist Øystein Wiik he has an extensive production: “Sophie’s World”  (Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen, Germany) 1998. “Vincent” (Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen, 2001), “Dangerous Liaisons” (Theater Pforzheim, 2002), “Homeless” (The Norwegian Theatre, Oslo, 2003). “Martin L.” (Theater Erfurt, 2008.-   nominated for The Nordic Music Prize.) “Around the world in 80 days” was commissioned for the opening of the new opera house in Oslo and was premiered in May 2010. “Max and Moritz” (2010) and "Supersize Girl" (2013)were commissioned by The New York Opera Society. A revised version of "Around the world in 80 days" was premiered at Landestheater Linz, Austria, in October 2016, and won 6 awards at The German Music Theatre Awards, 2017, including Best Musical, and Best Musical Production at The Austrian Music Theatre Awards, 2018.
“Bokken Lasson – stumbling success”, a radio opera, libretto by Ivar Tindberg and commissioned by The Norwegian State Broadcasting Company, won the Prix Italia in 2000. Their next collaboration, the opera “The fourth Watch of the Night” was premiered at The Norwegian National Opera in November 2005, and was awarded the Edvard Prize in 2006. It was revived in 2012, and presented at The Savonlinna Opera festival, Finland, in August 2012.
The opera, “Easter”, based on Strindberg’s play, libretto by Aksel-Otto Bull, was commissioned by Bergen National Opera, and premiered in April 2014 at Opera Sør in Kristiansand. Their musical "Letters from Ruth" (2014) has been performed in Oslo, New York and Washington.  "Upon this Handful of Earth" was premiered in February 2017, by The New York Opera Society, at The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, in New York City.
The children's opera "Purriot og den forsvunne bronsehesten", libretto by Bjørn F. Rørvik, premiered at The Norwegian National Opera, May 2018, and won the Norwegian Critic's Award.
Kverndokk has studied film music composition at The University College of Lillehammer, and has written the music for the Danish film, “Chinaman”, 2005. 
Kverndokk has an extensive production of church music, chamber music and vocal music. The CD "Fuge der Zeit" released in 2014 by Aurora, is music written for the ensemble Nordic Voices. "Symphonic Dances" is recorded by Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, released in 2018, to great critical acclaim. 
www.kverndokk.com
gisle@kverndokk.com

Born in New York on 18 September 1968 and moved to Norway in 1973. Studied classical guitar parallelly playing the electric guitar in several bands as a teenager. Music studies followed in the early 90s alongside performing professionally ever since. Bjørn has a Ph.D. in music performance, participated in more than 150 released albums, and played around 1000 concerts on four continents as a guitarist, artist, or producer. Bjørn changed the musical direction during the 2000s, focusing on composition and sound art, which has resulted in several self-initiated albums. His previous album, Time and Mass, is a solo album recorded in participation with Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. New album, "Fourth Wave and The Moon" coming 30 August 2024.

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