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Einar Steen-Nøkleberg

Biography

Einar Steen-Nøkleberg made a sensational threefold public debut in 1970 with three separate recitals on the piano, harpsichord and clavichord. He studied with Nicolai Dirdal and Hans Leygraf, and also counts his organ studies with Arild Sandvold as an important influence. For forty years Steen-Nøkleberg has performed with orchestras in Norway and abroad, and he has won numerous awards including a German higher education institution award (1969), the Norwegian piano competition (1972), the Norwegian Music Critics" Prize (1975), the Lindeman Prize (1982), The Grieg Prize (1992), and in 1994 he was made a Knight, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. During the past season he has given concerts in many cities, including Oslo, Moscow, Riga, Bucharest, Sofia, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. Einar Steen-Nøkleberg is an honorary member of Oslo Music Teachers" Association and the Norwegian Musicians" Society.

Einar Steen-Nøkleberg

Discography

Thomas D. A. Tellefsen: The Complete Works for Piano Solo

11.03.2011

The complete piano works of Chopin"s only pupil! Norwegian piano nestor Einar Steen-Nøkleberg has recorded the complete piano music of Grieg, Sæverud and Kjærulf in awarded reference recordings. He now adds T.D.A. Tellefsen to this impressive list, and the result is overwhelming.
Nordheim - Beethoven - Nordheim

11.06.2007

Einar Steen-Nøkleberg creates a meeting of masters outside the trodden path: Arne Nordheim probes into and behind the sound of the piano - meeting ideas and processes from the last sonata of Beethoven.
Thomas D.A. Tellefsen Chamber Works

02.02.2004

Only 19 years old, more or less directly from his debut as a concert pianist in his hometown of Trondheim, Thomas D. A. Tellefsen traveled to remote Paris to further his studies in music. Immensely talented, Thomas quickly made his way to the inner circles of this musical metropolis, and in 1844 he was introduced to Fréderic Chopin.
The Complete Piano Works of Halfdan Kjerulf

10.05.2001

One of the best-kept secrets of Norwegian music history is the musical mastery of Halfdan Kjerulf (1815-1869). Starting off our series Nordic Edition is this premiere recording of his complete works for piano collected in a 3-CD box.
Frühlingslied

30.04.2001

Simax Classics celebrates the coming of spring up here in the north by releasing selected piano pieces by Halfdan Kjerulf (1815-1868). The pieces are from the premiere recording of his complete music for piano, which is also now being released in a 3-CD box by Simax Classics.

Norwegian pianist Einar Steen-Nøkleberg is presenting these hidden gems and his interpretations and performance really does credit to the music of Kjerulf. He wrote his music at a time when the Norwegian national spirit was being cast, and from his urban dwellings in Oslo (then Christiania) he managed to bring in the elements of folk music which came to distinguish the young nation. And what was to come we all know, with Grieg, Svendsen, Halvorsen, Monrad Johansen and Tveitt. But was it, perhaps, with the works of Halfdan Kjerulf it all begun?
Thomas D. A. Tellefsen: The Piano Concertos

21.11.2005

Reviving the name of piano virtuoso and composer Thomas Tellefsen, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg follows his recent acclaimed recording of the chamber music here with two splendid piano concertos. Tellefsen, being the colleague of Chopin in Paris, wrote music in the great romantic tradition, and Nøkleberg is just the man to make these notes into the most beautiful music.