Rune Alver Pianist
"Rune Alver has done a great work in bringing into light Signe Lund’s music. In my ears her music could not have a better ambassador. He plays with warmth and naturalness. He is honest. He approaches these simple pieces with complexity ... you immediately hear how flexibly and vividly he explores her musical universe." Impromptu – Works by the young Signe Lund
TORE HEGDAHL, Vårt Land
Rune Alver
Rune Alver has many years of experience performing Grieg’s music at the Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen. He maintains an extensive concert schedule as soloist and chamber musician with performances throughout Europe and in Russia, China and South Africa. In 2013 he performed a solo recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Rune Alver collaborates with leading musicians, actors and visual artists in traditional and more experimental contexts. He has recorded a number of critically acclaimed albums, among them the complete piano works of Johannes M. Rivertz and David Monrad Johansen. The CD Et kjærlighetsdikt (A Love Poem) with music by Catharinus Elling was released in 2019. Recently the complete piano music by the female Norwegian composer Signe Lund was released in three albums.
Some important performances
Glinka Music Museum (Moscow)
Rachmaninov Concert Hall (Moscow)
Sviatoslav Richter Museum (Moscow)
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall (New York)
Urness Recital Hall (Minnesota)
Invalides, Salon d'Honneur (Paris)
Radio France (Paris)
Conservatoire Maurice Ravel Levallois Perret (Paris)
Joseph-Joachim-Konzertsaal (Berlin)
Kammersaal Universität der Künste (Berlin)
Mendelssohn Haus (Leipzig)
Grieg-Begegnungsstätte (Leipzig)
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Leipzig)
White Box Museum Chaoyang District (Beijing)
TCG Nordica (Kunming)
Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen (Bergen)
Harald Sæverud Museum Siljustøl (Bergen)
Fartein Valen Heimen (Valevåg)
Bergen International Festival (Bergen)
Festspillene i Nord-Norge (Harstad)
Belfast International Arts Festival (Belfast)
Sumartonar (Faroe Islands)
Lund-dagene (Farsund)
Hamsundagene (Hamarøy)
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