Origin Norway Role Musician Occupation(s) Musician, composer | Labels Hubro Music Genres Jazz, Church music Name Sigbjorn Apeland | |
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Born 10 May 1966 (age 57)
Sveio, Hordaland ( 1966-05-10 ) Instruments Keyboards, church organ Website www.uib.no/en/persons/Sigbj%C3%B8rn.Apeland Albums Lysoen (Hommage a Ole Bull), Glossolalia Similar People Nils Okland, Terje Isungset, Sigrid Moldestad, Edvard Grieg | ||
Music group Agbaland (Since 2012) | ||
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Sigbjørn Apeland (born 10 May 1966 was raised in Sveio, Norway) is a musician (organ and Harmonium) and scientist, known from several recordings and for his work in the borderland between folk music, church music and improvisational music.
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Career
Apeland is a graduate in performing Church music at the Rogaland Musikkonservatorium (1988) and ethnomusicology from University of Bergen (1998), before he as fellow at Griegakademiet completed his Dr. art. with the thesis Kyrkjemusikkdiskursen: Musikklivet i Den norske kyrkja som diskursiv praksis (Church music discourse: The music scene in the Norwegian church as discursive practice, 2005).
Apeland contributes on numerous album releases by Nils Økland (1995–), Reidun Horvei (1998), Ingeleiv Kvammen and Olav Kvammen (2000), Åsne Valland Nordli (2001), Marylands (2001), and Agnes Buen Garnås (2002). For the Vossajazz he released the album Fryd (1998), in collaboration with Berit Opheim (vocals), Bjørn Kjellemyr (bass), Einar Mjølsnes (Hardingfele) and Per Jørgensen (trumpet). With Berit Opheim he released the album Den Blide Sol (2007).
Apeland often play together with county musicians in Hordaland, he also collaborates with the fiddle player Synnøve S. Bjørset, and with Knut Hamre, Hildegun Riise and Benedicte Maurseth.
Honors
Solo albums
Collaborations
Songs
Stusle SundagskveldenLysøen (Hommage à Ole Bull) · 2011
Solveigs sangLysøen (Hommage à Ole Bull) · 2011
La MélancolieLysøen (Hommage à Ole Bull) · 2011