Harald Sæther Explained

Harald Sæther
Birth Date:9 May 1946
Oppdal, Norway
Occupations:Composer, Musician
Genre:Classical, Contemporary
Website:www://haraldsaether.no

Harald Sæther (born 9 May 1946) is a Norwegian composer with a diploma (MA) from Grieg Academy (2008) . He is member of the Norwegian Society of Composers[1] and New Music Composers Group[2] (NMK) where he was chairman from 2009 to 2011.

Biography

Education

Sæther is basically a self-taught musician from the early 1960s, with guitar - later electric bass - as his main instrument. In 1963 he, along with three other boys, formed a rock and roll group - The Spiritual Man Group - in Oppdal, Norway.[3] This group disbanded in 1966, and in 1967, he and four other boys formed the hard rock band Hapax Legomenon[4] which was disbanded in the summer of 1970.

In 1971 he started his musical education at the Veitvet Music Conservatory in Oslo, with the violin as his main instrument. After three years at this institution he continued his studies as a musician and music teacher at Trondheim Conservatory of Music in Trondheim, until the spring of 1977.

Career

After 25 years as a musician and music teacher, in 2001 he was badly injured in a serious traffic accident and had to interrupt his career. This led him to The Grieg Academy in Bergen, where he earned a master's degree (MA) in composition in 2008, with Morten Eide Pedersen as his supervisor.

Sæther has had his music performed by Oslo Sinfonietta and Oslo Soloists Ensemble in Oslo, FMKV (Military Brass Band Orchestra) and the Grieg Academy Sinfonietta in Bergen, Trondheim Sinfonietta in Trondheim, Kristiansund Symphony in Kristiansund, and by several smaller groups and ensembles in Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansund.

In 2008 he had works performed in the ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival;[5] in 2010, at the 30-year anniversary of the New Music Composers' Group, at the Numusic Festival[6] in Stavanger; and in 2011 at the Borealis Festival[7] in Bergen.

Sæther is a full-time free-lance composer and has his edited works deposited with MIC[8] (Music Information Centre in Norway).

Works List

Orchestra

Sinfonietta

Vocals

Smaller ensembles/Solistic works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Norwegian Society of Composers Members list . 2011-03-05 . 2011-06-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110620071514/http://www.komponist.no/medlemmer . dead .
  2. Web site: New Music Composers Group of Norway .
  3. Web site: The Spiritual Man Group . 2011-03-05 . 2011-07-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724182451/http://plekterfesten.no/retroband/thespiritualmangroup/index.php . dead .
  4. Web site: Hapax Legomenon . 2011-03-05 . 2011-07-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724182456/http://plekterfesten.no/retroband/hapax/index.php . dead .,
  5. Web site: ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival Harald Sæther. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724185445/http://www.vagant.no/kalender/40001_ultima-konsert-ny-musikks-komponistgruppe/forestilling/54935. 2011-07-24.
  6. Web site: Concert with Jane Chapman Harald Sæther. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724172355/http://www.numusic.no/events/jane-chapman-uk/?header=9. 2011-07-24.
  7. Web site: Concert with Bit20 Ensemble Harald Sæther . 2011-03-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110314135450/http://borealisfestival.no/2011/programme/event/bit20_ensemble/ . 2011-03-14 . dead .
  8. Web site: Music Information Centre in Norway Harald Sæther .

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