Bjørn Charles Dreyer NORWAY
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Bjørn Charles Dreyer was born in New York on 18 September 1968 and moved to Norway in 1973. As a teenager, he studied classical guitar, parallelly playing the electric guitar in several bands. Music studies followed in the early 90s, alongside performing professionally ever since.
Bjørn has a Ph.D. in music performance. He has participated in over 150 released albums and played around 1000 concerts on four continents as a guitarist, artist, or producer. Bjørn changed his musical direction during the 2000s, focusing on composition and sound art, resulting in several self-initiated albums, documentary films, TV series, and theatre plays. Bjørn has composed music for documentaries and TV series since early 2000. His latest production was three music videos for his solo album Time and Mass, directed by Lene Midling-Jenssen and filmed underwater by divers and free divers. He did the guitar work on Bille August’s recent movie Kysset. His latest album, Time and Mass, is a solo album recorded with participation from Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he composes the music and plays concerts with his own Bjørn Charles Dreyer Ensemble. The ensemble has had several sold-out shows at home and abroad. |