Sverre Riise studied with Professor Ingemar Roos at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and graduated with the highest grade in 1996. Since his graduation, he has been principal trombonist of the Norwegian Opera Orchestra (1996) and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, where he still is today. He won the competition Musicora 98 in Paris with Valkyrie Brass in 1998, and released the CD The Dangerous Kitten with the Oslo Sinfonietta in 1999. In 2004 he released the CD Works by W.…
Sverre Riise studied with Professor Ingemar Roos at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and graduated with the highest grade in 1996. Since his graduation, he has been principal trombonist of the Norwegian Opera Orchestra (1996) and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, where he still is today. He won the competition Musicora 98 in Paris with Valkyrie Brass in 1998, and released the CD The Dangerous Kitten with the Oslo Sinfonietta in 1999. In 2004 he released the CD Works by W. Lutoslawski, J. Bach, P. Jansen, O. Berg with Valkyrie Brass. Riise has also been alternating solo trombonist of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in 2000-2001, and then as a substitute 2. trombonist in the same orchestra in 2006. He was also a soloist with the performance of Arne Nordheim Hunting Of the Snark at Siljustøl during FIB in 2011 and played Nordheim fabric used on OCA, the Ultima Festival and several times during DOCUMENTA13 in Kassel 2012. In addition to teaching at the Barratt Due Institute of Music, he is on several occasions soloist with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Sinfonietta and Ensemble Ernst, most recently in september 2012 in the premiere performance of Ørjan Matre "… but I must
have said this before".
Jan 2013