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, Aage Kvalbein, Solveig Kringlebotn, Randi Stene, Aage Kvalbein,

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Career

Waagaard is an associate professor at the

Norwegian Academy of Music The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: ''Norges musikkhøgskole'', NMH) is a university-level music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the ...

. He has toured in the United States, several European countries and all over Norway, together with singers like Solveig Kringlebotn, Anne Lise Berntsen and the harmonica player

. He has several appearances on festivals like Festspillene i Bergen, Nordlysfestivalen, Oslo kammermusikkfestival', 'Vestfoldfestspillene', 'Vinterfestspillene på Røros', 'Olavsfestdagene', 'Kristiansund operafestuke', 'Trondheim kammermusikkfestival', 'Festspillene i Harstad' and 'Nordland musikkfestuke'. He has given recitals with the likes of Ole Edvard Antonsen, Arve Tellefsen, Truls Mørk, Aage Kvalbein, Randi Stene, Elisabeth Nordberg Schulz, Per Vollestad, Isa Gericke, Aage Kvalbein, and participated in hundreds of radio and TV programs, dozens of album recordings and has recorded music for film, radio drama and TV theater. He has been orchestral pianist several times within 'KORK'. In the period 1995-2007 Waagaard was regular accompanist at the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, and has been accompanist at the 'Statens Operahøyskole', 'Statens Teaterhøyskole' and 'Den norske Opera' in Norway. Together with Svein Bjørkøy he released the album ''Sanger av Øistein Sommerfeldt'' in 2004, and the successor ''David Monrad Johansen - Samtlige sanger'' in 2007. Together with

he released the album ''Over the Piano - American Cabaret Songs'' in 2010.

Discography

Solo albums

*2011: ''Gershwin at the Keyboard'' (Lawo Classics)

Collaborations

;With Rita Engebretsen and Helge Borglund *1976: ''Frem Fra Glemselen Kap. 4 (Kjente Viser Fra En Svunnen Tid)'' (Talent) ;With

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and Jonas Fjeld *1988: ''Etterlatte Sanger'' (

Curling Legs __NOTOC__ Curling Legs Productions A/S (established 1992 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian record label with a catalogue encompassing all styles of jazz and improvised music. It was started by Knut Værnes and Morten Halle to release their own m ...

) ;With

*1991: ''Nattønsker'' (

Sonet Records Sonet Records was a jazz, pop and rock record label operating as an imprint of Universal Music Sweden. It was founded in Sweden in 1956. Sonet Records was established by Sven Lindholm and Gunnar Bergström, who managed the label into the 1980 ...

) *2012: ''Classical Harmonica'' ( Grappa Music) ;With Maj Britt Andersen *1992: ''Kjærtegn'' (Norsk Plateproduksjon) *1994: ''Rippel Rappel'' (Grappa Music) ;With Helge Iberg *1991: ''Halvveis'' (Curling Legs), lyrics by Rolf Jacobsen *2007: ''ReHumaniZing'' (Aurora) ;With

*1995: ''Brevet'' (

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) ;With Svein Bjørkøy *2004: ''Sanger av Øistein Sommerfeldt'' *2007: ''David Monrad Johansen - Samtlige sanger'' ;Within ' Augestad & Waagaard Duo' *2010: ''Over The Piano: American Cabaret Songs'' (Norway Music) ;With Jorunn Marie Bratlie *2011: ''Norsk Musikk For To Klaver'' (Bergen Digital)

References

External links

LAWO CLASSICS: IVAR ANTON WAAGAARD - PIANO
{{DEFAULTSORT:Waagaard, Ivar Anton Norwegian male pianists 1955 births Living people Academic staff of the Norwegian Academy of Music 21st-century Norwegian pianists 21st-century Norwegian male musicians