Pine Furset

Arve Furset (born December 5, 1964 in Sunnfjord ) is a Norwegian jazz pianist , keyboarder, composer and music producer.

Life

Furset studied music at the University of Trondheim from 1983 to 1985. Until 1989 he was a member of the Bodega Band , 1986–87 member of the group Saz Semai and 1989–90 he was a member of Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk's band . During this time he also worked regularly with three other groups: the quintet First Set , with whom he appeared at festivals in Lillehammer, Voss and Molda, the trio Konerne ved Vandposten and the folk group Orleysa . From 1999 he toured with Eivind Aarset's group Électronique Noire . In the late 1990s he also worked with pop musicians such as the group Flava to da bone and with Lynni Treekrem .

In addition, Furset was orchestra conductor and composer at Trøndelag Theater and has participated in more than thirty tours by the ensemble. He later worked at the Centraltheater and the Nye Theater in Oslo and worked as a composer, arranger and composer on the big Saturday night shows of NRK1 .

As a music producer, Furset works in the fields of dance music , retro pop , world music and electro pop . He composed and produced two titles that were able to place in the national preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest , as well as the title I'm not afraid to go one , with which Jostein Hasselgård took fourth place at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest .

Discography

• Orleysa: Orleysa , 1991
• First set: Going , 1992
• Fair Play: Far to go (with Norma Winstone ), 1992
• Orleysa: Svanshornet , 1993
• Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk & The Sympathy Orchestra: Sympathetic , 1998
• Électronique Noire: Light Extracts , 2001

Web links

• Arve Furset at Discogs (English)