Background
He was born in Sandnessjøen in 1972.
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Arve Bergset
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When he was five, he moved to Vinje, an area with rich folk music traditions. Odd Nordstoga was among his childhood friends. At eight, he started taking song lessons with Sondre Bratland.
He released two albums of folk and traditional religious music as a boy singer in 1986 (Litle Fuglen, cassette) and Arvesølv in 1987.
In 1994, Bergset was an olympic musician at the Lillehammer Olympics. Parallel to his folk music career, he is a classical musician, educated at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
He has played with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and is since 2003 employed as a violinist in the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Bergset played the solo part in the recording of the two Hardanger Fiddle Concertos by Geirr Tveitt with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in September 1999, under the direction of Ole Kristian Ruud.
The family lives in Billingstad.
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Membership
Bergset is a member of Bukkene Bruse, a Norwegian folk music group, for whom he sings and plays the violin.
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Norway