This is the winner of the year by the Rolf Gammläng Award

The Rolf Gammläng Award for Performing Artists was created during the 25th anniversary of the Performing Arts Foundation in 1982. It bears the name of the founder of the Rolf Gammleng Music Association. It is awarded to professional musicians and performers for "successful efforts in recording phonograms and concerts / performances on stage", as its status calls for, or for astonishing efforts that occur over time in a slightly more modern language.

In 2018, eight prizes are awarded, seven prizes per kr. 50,000, and a veteran price of kr. 75,000. The criteria for taking advantage of this last prize are long in their field, in addition to the executive artistic performance according to the laws calling "a very profitable way".

The veteran's award goes to Liv Glaser this year.
Reasoning of the jury:

Liv Glaser was born in Oslo in 1935, from parents Ernst Glaser, violinist, and Kari Marie Aarvold, pianist. She brought the music with her mother's milk. Both parents were educators and, in addition to the training and inspiration that she had given them, she also joined the musical children's garden of the Barratt Due Institute. The road for life has been added.

Finally, there were piano studies with legend Robert Riefling. In 1955, she was considered a soloist during the concert of the young people and the show was rewarded with the price of criticism. She studied in Paris for 3 years and received more prizes, the first piano prize and the first prize for chamber music. The stay in Paris also characterized his repertoire. She also studied in London and Moscow after Paris.

Liv Glaser debuted in Bergen in 1959 and Oslo in 1960. In addition to solo concerts, she has collaborated with orchestras in Norway and abroad. She toured Norway and Scandinavia and gave concerts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Liv Glaser belongs to the ultimate elite of the piano. His repertoire is vast. She has been especially immersed in the classical repertoire and practice of classical entry, and she plays more than usual on hammer pads. She has also made great efforts to promote Norwegian music and has been listening to the Bergen Festivals for many years as a soloist and in collaboration with others.

Liv Glaser has made numerous recordings with music by Schumann, Grieg, Mendelsohn, Schubert, Brahms and Egge, to name but a few. His recordings of all of Mozart's sonatas have gained international recognition, as well as the recording of hammer songs with his brother, cellist Ernst Simon Glaser, with works by Schubert and Schumann. The 2007 CD and opera tours with Edward Grieg also attracted international attention.

As parents, Liv Glaser also became an educator. She started with private students and eventually became a beloved and professed professor at the Oslo Music Academy. She teaches courses and championships in Norway and abroad, in addition to being a jury member in national and international competitions.

Although it is not quite comparable with the Gold Medal of Merit in Gold or with the Commander of the Order of St. Olav, as she has already done before, the fund is always very happy to present Liv Glaser with Rolf Gammeleng's Veteran Award.

The other winners of the year are:

Tor Egil Kreken:
The prize is awarded to a musician who is both an emblematic figure of his own band and who has also participated in an infinite number of recordings as studio musicians. He manages most of the string instruments in addition to the voice and has contributed as a choir and musician to such artists as Marit Larsen, Morten Abel, Stein Torleif Bjella, Shining, Sternklang, Eivind Aarset, Wibutee, for no. to name a few. He is listed on Wikipedia as a jazz musician, but one of his main projects is currently the trio Darling West, which plays folk music with elements of bluegrass, time, appearances and rock. A very talented musician and recipient of the Rolf Gammleng Prize: Tor Egil Kreken.

The prize was taken against Darling West's manager, Andreas Milde.

Håkon Kornstad:
Håkon Kornstad studied jazz in Trondheim. He started Wibutee in 1998 – which Tor Egil Kreken participated in – and Atomic in 2000. name a few. Our laureate played jazz in every nuance, from Frijazz to Avantgarde, to classical songs. An explorer musician, who has never feared to take new paths. His instruments are saxophones and he calls himself a flutonette, a clarinet mouthpiece mounted in cross section. The electronics has often been a help.

In 2009, during a visit to New York, he became interested in the opera. From teaching there, went to Oslo Opera School. Without leaving the saxophone. The result was two tenors in one person, tenor combat vowel and tenor saxophone. New, unexpected, high quality and with a wide audience.

Susanne Sundfør:
Susanne Sundfør played both jazz and classical music. She has developed her very particular style with elements of both genres and electronics, but has become famous as a popular artist, singer and songwriter. She has published several albums under her own name and has won numerous awards for her art. Albums like The Brothel, The Silicone Veil and Ten Love Songs will be part of the history of Norwegian popular music.
Unfortunately, the laureate can not be here today, but it is also a great pleasure to be able to award this prize to one of our greatest popular artists, Susanne Sundfør.

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The award was received by Charlotte Öquist on behalf of Sundfør.

Javid Afsari Row:
Javid Afsari Rad arrived in Norway in 1986, from Iran where he had studied classical Persian music. He is the leader of the Combo Nations, Rumi Ensemble and Norwegian World Orchestra ensembles. The music that he makes is strongly inspired by the Persian tradition, but also by Western classical music. He plays a variety of instruments, but Persian Santur is his main instrument.

His ensembles travel the world and this corresponds to his project to create exciting new musical expressions through the fusion of different musical traditions.

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He has published a number of albums. In 2008, he was named artist of the year by the city of Oslo. Since last year, he became a member of the national team.

Erlend Apneseth:
In the class of folk music, we have a laureate who is well suited to several genres.
Erlend Apneseth plays Hardfile and, besides being his favorite player, he has immersed himself in improvisation, alternative sound techniques and pizzas. He has also done many collaborative theater projects with dancers, poets and other musicians. He manages his own bands and has recorded 4 albums, many of which have been nominated for the Spellemann Award in the folk and open class category.

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In addition, actor, screenwriter and director Anne Marit Sæther and dance Pia Elton Hammer price.

The fund's board of directors elects the winners from the proposals received from practitioners and producers of phonograms in Norway.