Liv Glaser

Liv Glaser has long been well known amongst Norwegian lovers of classical music. Already since making her debut in 1960 she has been recognized as being amongst the elite of Norwegian pianists, with countless TV and radio concerts and performances. She has toured extensively all over Norway and given concerts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. She has also held courses and master classes, both at home and abroad, and has served on juries in national, Nordic and international competitions, amongst other places in Japan. She studied in Oslo with Robert Riefling, at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique in Paris with the legendary Vlado Perlemuter, later with Lev Oborin at the Moscow Music Conservatory and with Ilona Kabos and Wilhelm Kempff.

In 1990 she once again became a pupil, taking lessons with Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna, studying original manuscripts of Mozart at the NMA, Mozarteum in Salzburg, besides in depth studies of the fortepiano (Hammerklavier) with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University in the United States. This resulted in a recording of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas, two CDs performing on a modern grand and three more on a fortepiano (Simax Classics PSC1066, 1092, 1125, 1148 and 1149). She has also played the fortepiano on a recording of Clementi (PSC1258 2006), Grieg Lyric Pieces (PSC1291 2007), Schubert’s, Die Schöne Müllerin with Per Vollestad (PSC1140, 1997) as well as on a recording together with her brother, the cellist Ernst Simon Glaser, playing works for cello and piano by Schubert and Schumann (PSC1175, 2004).

Liv Glaser has been teaching at the Norwegian Academy of Music since it was founded in 1973 and became professor there in 1994. Through all her performing and teaching activities she has contributed much to the growing interest in the fortepiano and for increasing our understanding of how we may perform, interpret and indeed listen to music written for instruments from earlier times. Liv Glaser remains active both as a teacher and performer.

Liv Glaser was awarded HM The King’s Medal of Merit 1965, the Lindeman Prize 2004 and the Grieg Prize 2014.

July 2010