Harald Sæther


Harald Sæther is a Norwegian composer with a diploma from Grieg Academy . He is member of the Norwegian Society of Composers and New Music Composers Group where he was chairman from 2009 to 2011.

Biography

Education

Sæther is basically self-taught musician from the early 1960s, with guitar - later electric bass as main instrument. In 1963 he, along with three other boys formed a rock and roll group in Oppdal, Norway, The Spiritual Man Group. This group disbanded in 1966 and in 1967, he and four other boys formed the hard rock band Hapax Legomenon which was disbanded in the summer of 1970.
In 1971 he started his musical education at the Veitvet Music Conservatory in Oslo with the violin as his main instrument. After three years at this institution he continued his studies up to the musician / music teacher at Trondheim Conservatory of Music in Trondheim until the spring of 1977.

Career

After 25 years as a musician / music teacher, in 2001, he was badly injured in a serious traffic accident and had to interrupt musician career. This led him to The Grieg Academy in Bergen, where he earned master's degree in composition in 2008, with Morten Eide Pedersen as a supervisor.
Sæther has had performances by Oslo Sinfonietta and Oslo Soloists Ensemble in Oslo, FMKV and the Grieg Academy Sinfonietta in Bergen, Trondheim Sinfonietta in Trondheim, Kristiansund Symphony in Kristiansund and several smaller groups and ensembles in both Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansund. In 2008 he had performances in the ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival and the 30 year anniversary of New Music Composers' Group, in 2010 at Numusic Festival in Stavanger and in 2011 at the Borealis Festival in Bergen.
Sæther is full-time free-lance composer and have his edited works deposited with MIC.

Works List

Orchestra