Tore Bruvoll (born 30 October 1978 in

Tromsø Tromsø is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The city is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the administrative centre of Troms county. The city is located on the is ...

) is a Norwegian musician (guitar and multi-instrumentalist), composer and music arranger.

Career

Bruvoll was educated at

Telemark University College Telemark University College (TUC, , HiT) was, until its merger, the fourth largest university college in Norway. The University College had about 7000 students, split between four locations in Bø, Notodden, Porsgrunn, Rauland and Drammen. Hier ...

(1997–1999), and is best known from the group

Hekla Stålstrenga Hekla Stålstrenga is a Norwegian folk and folk rock band specializing in North Norwegian traditional music. It was formed in 2008 as a duo by fiddler Ragnhild Furebotten and guitarist Tore Bruvoll. They had their first recording as a duo, for ...

who have released two albums. He has also had great success with two otherprojects: "Den Store Norske Gitarkvartett" and the duo cooperation Bruvoll/Halvorsen together with the kveder Jon Anders Halvorsen. Bruvoll has collaborated with many other artists in traditional folk like

Annbjørg Lien Annbjørg Lien (born 15 October 1971) is a Norway, Norwegian musician, playing the hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle), violin, and nyckelharpa. Career She first came to national prominence in 1986. Shortly afterwards got a recording deal with the H ...

and String Sisters. Bruvoll has since the late 1990s worked closely with

Ragnhild Furebotten Ragnhild Furebotten (born 10 March 1979 in Saltdal, Norway) is a Norwegian fiddler, folk musician and composer, and former member of the traditional folk band Majorstuen and present member and founder of Hekla Stålstrenga. Career Furebotten ...

, which has resulted in the founding of the band

, including two nominations for the

Spellemannprisen The Spellemannprisen (also referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards) is a Norwegian music award ceremony presented by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry#Local associations, IFPI Norge and :no:FONO, FONO. It was first awarded i ...

and extensive touring in

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as well as internationally. Bruvoll also plays other instruments like

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally a gui ...

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

ukulele The ukulele ( ; ); also called a uke (informally), is a member of the lute (ancient guitar) family of instruments. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin and was popularized in Hawaii. The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and con ...

and

low whistle The low whistle, or concert whistle, is a variation of the traditional tin whistle/pennywhistle, distinguished by its lower pitch and larger size. It is most closely associated with the performances of British and Irish artists such as Tommy Mak ...

as well as guitar.

Honors

* 2006: Young Arts Scholarship by the Festival of Northern Norway within

Discography

Majorstuens – "Juledrøm" (2006) String Sisters "Live in Norway" cd&dvd (Grappa 2007) ALB – Lupus Island (2006) Steve Byrne – "Songs from home" (2006) ;With Jogvan Andrias – "Soleidis saman" (2000) ;With Jon Anders Halvorsen *2004: ''Nattasang'' ( Heilo) *2007: ''Trillar For To'' (Heilo) ;With String Sisters *2007: ''Live'' (Heilo) ;With

*2008: ''

'' (Ta:lik), nominated for the

2008 ;Within

*2011: ''Makramé'' (Ta:lik), nominated for the Spellemannprisen] 2011 *2013: ''Dyrandé'' (Ta:lik) ;With

Sondre Bratland Sondre Bratland (born 11 September 1938) is a Norwegian folk singer, song teacher and Government scholar. He has performed traditional songs from Setesdal and Telemark, collected religious folk tunes and composed music to songs by poets as Olav ...

*2011: ''Jol I Mi Song'' (

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)

References

External links

Tore Bruvoll at Hekla Stålstrenga Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bruvoll, Tore 1978 births Living people Musicians from Tromsø Norwegian folk guitarists Norwegian male guitarists Norwegian composers Norwegian male composers Heilo Music artists 21st-century Norwegian guitarists 21st-century Norwegian male musicians