Ivar Anton Waagaard

Ivar Anton Waagaard
Ivar Anton Waagaard
Birth name	Ivar Anton Beinset Waagaard
Born	3 September 1955 (age 69); Oslo
Origin	Norway
Genres	Contemporary, classical music
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Piano

Ivar Anton Waagaard (born 3 September 1955) is a Norwegian pianist. He has collaborated with several Norwegian artists like Sigmund Groven, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Arve Tellefsen, Truls Mørk, Aage Kvalbein, Solveig Kringlebotn, Randi Stene, Aage Kvalbein, Tora Augestad, Jannike Kruse, Silje Nergaard, Jonas Fjeld and Lars Klevstrand.^[1]

Career

Waagaard is an associate professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music.^[2] He has toured in the United States, several European countries and all over Norway, together with singers like Solveig Kringlebotn, Anne Lise Berntsen and the harmonica player Sigmund Groven. He has several appearances on festivals like Festspillene i Bergen, Nordlysfestivalen, Oslo kammermusikkfestival', 'Vestfoldfestspillene', 'Vinterfestspillene på Røros', 'Olavsfestdagene', 'Kristiansund operafestuke', 'Trondheim kammermusikkfestival', 'Festspillene i Harstad' and 'Nordland musikkfestuke'.^[1]

He has given recitals with the likes of Ole Edvard Antonsen, Arve Tellefsen, Truls Mørk, Aage Kvalbein, Randi Stene, Elisabeth Nordberg Schulz, Per Vollestad, Isa Gericke, Aage Kvalbein, and participated in hundreds of radio and TV programs, dozens of album recordings and has recorded music for film, radio drama and TV theater. He has been orchestral pianist several times within 'KORK'. In the period 1995-2007 Waagaard was regular accompanist at the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, and has been accompanist at the 'Statens Operahøyskole', 'Statens Teaterhøyskole' and 'Den norske Opera' in Norway.^[3]

Together with Svein Bjørkøy he released the album Sanger av Øistein Sommerfeldt in 2004, and the successor David Monrad Johansen - Samtlige sanger in 2007. Together with Tora Augestad he released the album Over the Piano - American Cabaret Songs in 2010.^[3]

Discography

Solo albums

2011: Gershwin at the Keyboard (Lawo Classics)

Collaborations

With Rita Engebretsen and Helge Borglund

1976: Frem Fra Glemselen Kap. 4 (Kjente Viser Fra En Svunnen Tid) (Talent)

With Sidsel Endresen and Jonas Fjeld

1988: Etterlatte Sanger (Curling Legs)

With Sigmund Groven

1991: Nattønsker (Sonet Records)
2012: Classical Harmonica (Grappa Music)

With Maj Britt Andersen

1992: Kjærtegn (Norsk Plateproduksjon)
1994: Rippel Rappel (Grappa Music)

With Helge Iberg

1991: Halvveis (Curling Legs), lyrics by Rolf Jacobsen
2007: ReHumaniZing (Aurora)

With Silje Nergaard

1995: Brevet (Kirkelig Kulturverksted)

With Svein Bjørkøy

2004: Sanger av Øistein Sommerfeldt
2007: David Monrad Johansen - Samtlige sanger

Within 'Augestad & Waagaard Duo'

2010: Over The Piano: American Cabaret Songs (Norway Music)

With Jorunn Marie Bratlie

2011: Norsk Musikk For To Klaver (Bergen Digital)^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "Ivar Anton Waagaard: klaver". Biography (in Norwegian). OperaTilFolket.no. Retrieved 2014-10-26.
^ "Ivar Anton Waagaard". Norwegian Academy of Music. Retrieved 2014-10-26.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Ivar Anton Waagaard, klaver". Biography (in Norwegian). KammerOpera.no. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2014-10-26.

External links

LAWO CLASSICS: IVAR ANTON WAAGAARD - PIANO

[operatilfolket-1] "Ivar Anton Waagaard: klaver". Biography (in Norwegian). OperaTilFolket.no. Retrieved 2014-10-26.

[2] "Ivar Anton Waagaard". Norwegian Academy of Music. Retrieved 2014-10-26.

[kammeropera-3] "Ivar Anton Waagaard, klaver". Biography (in Norwegian). KammerOpera.no. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2014-10-26.

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