SPONSORED: CD Spotlight. Perfect Indeed - More Beethoven from James Brawn, recommended by Andrew Schartmann.
All sponsored features >>
Norwegian composer and jazz pianist Terje Bjørklund was born in Narvik on 2 January 1945. He studied musicology at Oslo University and then composition with Finn Mortensen at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
He worked mainly as a jazz pianist until 1980 then concentrated on composing serious art music with harmony as an important element, handled in a similar way to modern jazz. He wrote solo, chamber, choral and orchestral music, plus much music for string ensembles, due to the rich environment of string ensembles in Trondheim.
Terje Bjørklund died on 3 October 2024, aged seventy-nine.