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Ketil Bjørnstad
Since 1952
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Ketil Bjørnstad (born 25 April 1952) is a Norwegian pianist, composer and author. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz".
He is an artist on the ECM record label, but has also published some twenty books, including novels, poetry, and essay collections.
He has collaborated with other ECM artists, including cellists Svante Henryson and David Darling, drummer Jon Christensen, and guitarist Terje Rypdal.
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Ketil Bjørnstad est un compositeur et écrivain norvégien né le 25 avril 1952 à Oslo.
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Discography
Albums
- 1973 Åpning
- 1974 Berget Det Blå
- 1975 Tredje Dag
- 1976 Finnes du noensteds ikveld
- 1977 Musikk for en lang natt
- 1977 Selena
- 1978 Leve Patagonia
- 1979 Svart Piano
- 1980 Tidevann
- 1981 30-Årskrigen
- 1982 Bjørnstad/Paus/Hamsun
- 1982 Engler i sneen
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- 1983 Aniara
- 1984 Mine dager i Paris
- 1984 Preludes, Vol. 1
- 1985 Preludes, Vol. 2
- 1989 Pianology
- 1990 Odyssey
- 1990 The Shadow
- 1992 Messe for en såret jord
- 1993 Water Stories
- 1994 Lise Madsen, Moses og de andre
- 1994 For den som elsker
- 1995 The Sea
- 1996 1996 ECM Concert in Taiwan
- 1997 The River
- 1997 Davidsalmer
- 1998 Nytt Liv - «The Rosenborg Tapes», Volum I
- 1998 The Sea II
- 1999 Himmelrand - Tusenårsoratoriet
- 2000 Epigraphs
- 2000 Prelude
- 2001 Before the Light
- 2001 Old
- 2002 Kildens bredd
- 2002 New Life
- 2003 Profeten
- 2003 The Nest
- 2004 Love's Philosophy - Keats, Shelley, Byron
- 2004 Seafarer's Song
- 2004 Solskinndypet
- 2005 Floating
- 2006 Rainbow Sessions
- 2007 Devotions
- 2008 The Light: Songs of Love and Fear
- 2009 The Rainbow
- 2010 Remembrance
- 2011 Night Song
- 2011 Early Piano Music
- 2012 Vinding's Music - Songs From the Alder Thicket
- 2013 Sunrise (A Cantata On Texts By Edvard Munch)
- 2015 Frolandia
- 2015 Bartók | Debussy | Ravel
- 2015 Images
- 2015 Shimmering
- 2018 A Suite of Poems
- 2018 Hun som kjenner tristheten ved ting
- 2019 Rainbow Sessions - New Edition
- 2019 The World I Used to Know
- 2019 The Beginning – and the End
- 2022 New Morning
- 2022 Between Hotels and Time
- 2023 Nightwalker
- 2023 Nightwalker (Fender Rhodes Version)
- 2025 Evening Song (Aftensang)
- «The Rosenborg Tapes» Volum 2 - 20 variasjoner over preludium & fuge i ciss-moll av Johan Sebastian Bach
- Hvalenes Sang
- Reisetid
- The Bach Variations
- The River I - XII
EPs
- 1980 Tidevann
