Ørnulf Boye Hansen (December 22, 1933 – October 23, 2018) was a
Norwegian violinist.
Life
Hansen was born in
Oslo
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. He lived in
Galgeberg for the first year of his life. He started playing violin at age six, studied under Signe Sandvold Dorn and
Leif Halvorsen at the
Oslo Conservatory of Music
The Oslo Conservatory of Music () was a music school in Oslo, Norway.
The school was established by Ludvig Mathias Lindeman and his son Peter Brynie Lindeman in 1883 in Christiania (as Oslo was then called) and was named the Organist School () ...
,
and then played as a substitute violinist at the
Theatercaféen
Theatercaféen is a restaurant located in the Hotel Continental in Oslo, Norway.
History
Theatercaféen opened in 1900 and is situated opposite from the National Theatre, which had opened the previous year. The restaurant and the hotel was ...
restaurant as a fifteen-year-old (1948). He made his debut at the
University of Oslo
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's
Aula
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Hall in 1953, was employed as the second concert master for the
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
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from 1952 to 1965, taught in
Piteå
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Geography
Piteå is located at the mouth of the Pite River (), at the shore of ...
,
Sweden
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from 1965 to 1966, and was the first concert master of the
Norwegian Opera
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's orchestra from 1967 to 1973.
He taught at the newly established
Norwegian Academy of Music
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from 1973 to 2001, where he was professor of violin and chamber music.
He led the
Oslo Chamber Orchestra from 1968 to 1982 and the Norwegian String Quartet from 1976 to 1986, and he appeared on a number of album releases with these orchestras and other ensembles.
Hansen toured abroad with one of his early teachers, Tibor Varga.
He was the father of the opera director Per Boye Hansen
and uncle of the bassoonist and conductor
Terje Boye Hansen.
Publications
* ''Med fag og følelse i Fiolinspillet'' (With Subject and Feeling in Playing Violin, 1997, Oslo: Høyskoleforlaget)
Releases
* ''Godt Norsk / Made in Norway'' (Bergen Digital, 1999)
* ''Antonio Bibalo: Concerto da Camera 2, Conserto Allegorico'' (Bergen Digital,2001)
* ''Johann Sebastian Bach'' (Bergen Digital, 2005)
* ''Whistling Classical Pieces'' (Bergen Digital, 2008)
Awards
*
Princess Astrid Music Award, 1963
*
City of Oslo Cultural Grant, 1985
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boye Hansen, Ornulf
1933 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Norwegian violinists
Musicians from Oslo