Sølve Sigerland studied violin and chamber music at the Norwegian Academy of Music and at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. He attended masterclasses with Isaac Stern, Ana Chumachenco and Lorand Fenyves. Sigerland has devoted most of his career to chamber music, although he has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras of the Nordic countries under conductors including Andrew Litton, Walter Weller, Leif Segerstam and Daniel Harding. In 1993, Sigerland represented Norway at the Nordic Soloist Biennial in Stockholm and in 1995 he was awarded two prizes in the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Sion, Switzerland. His recording of Grieg’s string quartet with, among others, cellist Truls Mørk, was awarded the Diapason d’Or. As a member of the Grieg Trio, Sølve has toured Europe, the USA and Asia and recorded CDs for Simax, Virgin and EMI Classics, to great critical acclaim, including works by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Haydn and Mendelssohn. In 2014, Sigerland co-founded the Ssens Trio with Henninge Landaas and Ellen Flesjø. The trio`s first recording Beethoven: String Trio, Op. 3 | Serenade, Op. 8 on LAWO Classics was released in 2017 to glowing reviews in Fanfare Magazine and Pizzicato and received Pizzicato`s Supersonic Award and an ICMA Awards nomination. Mozart: Divertimento K. 563 / Preludes and Fugues K. 404a was released by LAWO Classics in 2019. It was nominated for the German OPUS Klassik 2020. Photos: Bård Gundersen