Education
Later she studied in Wien, Austria and has held many concerts both in Norway and internationally as a soloist and accompanist.
Later she studied in Wien, Austria and has held many concerts both in Norway and internationally as a soloist and accompanist.
Riisnæs debuted 1977 in Oslo, and the following year she received her diploma at Norges Musikkhøgskole. She has been a soloist with both Oslo-Filharmonien and Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester, and the symphony orchestras of Economics and Stavanger. Besides a number of recordings in Norsk Rikskringkasting, she has done several school concert tours for Rikskonsertene.
In recent years she has been involved in performance practice, and also plays the fortepiano.
She has received a number of public and private grants. Riisnæs is employed at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, and at the Norges Musikkhøgskole, and debuted on record with Return where she played Sonata Number.
62 in East flat major by Joseph Haydn, Fantasies operation 116 by Johannes Brahms, Sonata operation
1 by Alban Berg and Preludes by George Gershwin.