Einar Røttingen

The pianist Einar Røttingen is Professor of Music Performance at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen. He received his education at the Bergen Music Conservatory and Eastman School of Music and has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in major cities in Europe, USA, Japan and China. Throughout the 1980s, Røttingen worked closely with the Norwegian composer Harald Sæverud and has recorded all the solo piano music in addition to the Piano Concerto with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Simax). He has also collaborated with many living composers and has commissioned numerous works. His recordings include the solo-CD Avgarde, Hika – with the violinist Trond Sæverud – and George Crumb’s Makrokosmos. Hika was chosen as ‘Selection of the month’ in The Strad in 2002 and the solo-CD Norwegian Variations was chosen as ‘Special Selection’ in International Piano in 2006 and awarded ‘Record of the Year’ by The International Grieg Society of Great Britain. Einar Røttingen has been awarded the City of Bergen Cultural Prize and The Bergen International Festival’s Robert Levin Festival Prize. October 2010