Norwegian conductor Bjarte Engeset (1958) gained his Diploma (with the highest possible score) at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 1989, where he studied with professor Jorma Panula. In 1991 he was chosen as a member of the Tanglewood Music Center Seminar of conductors where the teachers included Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, Simon Rattle, Marek Janowski and others. Since 2007 Engeset is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Swedens DalaSinfonietta. Engeset has considerably contributed to the outstanding high level of…
Norwegian conductor Bjarte Engeset (1958) gained his Diploma (with the highest possible score) at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 1989, where he studied with professor Jorma Panula. In 1991 he was chosen as a member of the Tanglewood Music Center Seminar of conductors where the teachers included Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, Simon Rattle, Marek Janowski and others. Since 2007 Engeset is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Swedens DalaSinfonietta. Engeset has considerably contributed to the outstanding high level of the orchestra. Engeset has been in demand to perform concerts, tours and CD recordings with leading orchestras like Baltimore Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malmø Symphony, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia along with several others. Engesets extensive discography of more than 30 CD releases contains a number of highly acclaimed best-selling albums. December 2013