Gisle Krogseth NORWAY 

​Norwegian guitarist/composer Gisle Krogseth has been highly active in both principal aspects of his career.  As a performer, he has made several successful concert tours throughout Europe and in the United States, presenting programs featuring many of his own colorful compositions for guitar.  Unusually versatile as a composer, he has written important works in the fields of symphonic music, chamber music, choral music, musical theatre and cabaret.  He has recorded many CDs, done Radio and TV-performances, composed for film and TV, and published his music in Norway, USA, Italy, Scandinavia, Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria and England.  In 1991 he represented Norway at the World Festival for Theatre, and won a price. In 1998 he composed Bært! Brecht! for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the German writer Bertolt Brecht (on Spotify).                                                                    Also in 1998 he was commissioned to write the opera Sigrid & Eindride for choir, seven soloists and orchestra, first performed in the year 2000. In 2004 his opera The Flood-tide of Fate (on SoundCloud) was staged, and in May 2007 his Sinfonia per Banda was given a first performance in Los Angeles, California, and in 2008 his Chamber Symphony was performed in Belgrade. His solo CD Il Canto del Mare was released in Italy and Japan in December 2014, and his Viking Concerto appeared on the label “Brilliant Classics” in April 2015 (on Spotify). He just has recorded in Hollywood California music for a new symphonic project, Mountain Songs (on soundcloud). His style can be described as “Contemporary Classic”- modern tonal music in the old classical forms.   
LATEST WORKS

Organ Symphony 2021
Written for a commissioner, to be performed in summer 2021.

"Barbro - The fire in me" 2021
A evening opera staged by the ''Fylkesmusikerne i Trøndelag''