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Artist
Martin Romberg
12+ albums
contemporary classicalNorwaynorwegian
about
Martin Romberg was born in Oslo in 1978. He studied composition with Michael Jarrell and film music with Klaus Peter Sattler at the University of Music in Vienna, Austria. Atthe present Romberg lives and works as a full time composer in southern France. He is interested mainly in the field of fantasy art, basing his last works on folk legends and fantasy litterature, folk legends, fantastic arts, world mythology and comic strips. The French editor, Gérard Billaudot, has begun publishing his works. He has worked extensively as an arranger for ensembles and orchestras, among others, Niederösterreichische Tonkünstler, ORF Dancing Stars Orchestra and recently the cult band Ulver with Tromsø Chamber Orchestra. He was commissioned by Ingolf Wunder to arrange several of John Williams’ orchestral works for solo piano, which in June 2012 was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon. His debut CD, recorded with the French pianist Aimo Paginand released on the classical label LAWO 2011, was well received by international critics. Pagin also presented the programat two concerts in Norway accompanied by respectively Frank Lie and the Norwegian theatre legend Toralv Maurstad. In 2007 he won the composer competition De Unges Konsert as well as one of two prizes from The Paul Woitschach Foundation for Symphonic Entertainment Music. The year later he was granted full scholarship from the state fund for popular composers. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; ad
