Philip Antony Kruse (born 13 May 1949) is a Norwegian orchestra leader, composer, arranger, producer, text writer, and musician (trumpet and vocals). He is the second son of Colonel Erling O. Kruse (b. 1922) and Eunice Cooklin (b. 1925).

Career

In his early career he joined the group

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with his brother

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. Bendik Singers was a vocal quartet founded by

Arne Bendiksen Arne Joachim Bendiksen (19 October 1926 – 26 March 2009) was a Norwegian singer, composer and producer, described as "the father of pop music" in Norway. Career Bendiksen was born in Bergen, Norway. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, he was a m ...

, where the two brothers sang with

Anne-Karine Strøm Anne-Karine Strøm (born 15 October 1951) is a Norwegian singer, best known for having taken part in the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest selection, Melodi Grand Prix, in six consecutive years between 1971 and 1976, winning on three occasions ( ...

and

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in Store norske leksikon ...

. They won the Norwegian

Melodi Grand Prix Melodi Grand Prix (), commonly known as Grand Prix and MGP, sometimes as Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix ( no, Norsk Melodi Grand Prix), is an annual music competition organised by Norwegian public broadcaster Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK). It dete ...

twice. In addition, Kruse won the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix three times as a text writer. As producer of the album ''Match'' with Wenche Hallan and

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, he won the

Spellemannprisen Spellemannprisen, often referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards in English, is a Norwegian music award presented to Norwegian musicians. The award was established by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), an organizati ...

in 1976. He has written about 2,000 melodies and texts for artists like

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, Anne-Karine Strøm and George Keller, and has written the music to TV serials like ''Amalies jul'', ''Huset med det rare i'' and ''Puslespill'' for

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. He has produced about 300 music records, including

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's ''Fisking i Valdres'',

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's ''Tramp på en smurf'' and

Vidar Sandbeck Vidar Sandbeck (July 21, 1918 – November 10, 2005) was a Norwegian folk singer, composer, and writer. Sandbeck was born in Åmot, in modest conditions, and suffered from poor health during much of his childhood. He became a prodigy on the viol ...

's ''Ballade''. As orchestral leader he has contributed to many NRK radio and television productions. He has been on tour with

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, Ellen Nikolaysen, Kari-Ann Grønnsund,

Frode Thingnæs Frode Thingnæs (20 March 1940 – 15 November 2012) was a Norwegian jazz composer, arranger, conductor and trombone player who formed the Frode Thingnæs Quintet in 1960. Career Thingnæs was introduced to music at eight years old, when he sta ...

and

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. Lately he has led his own

bigband A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and ...

, Philip Kruse BigBand. Kruse worked with Arne Bendiksen's record company in 1971 to 1979 before he got together with Frode Thingnæs and started Frost Music A/S in 1979. He led this music publishing company until it was sold to

EMI EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At the time of its break-up in 201 ...

in 1999. He was chairman of GramArt and is the chairman of the main jury of the Edvard price given by

TONO TONO is a Norwegian corporation that administers copyrights for music in Norway. It is owned and governed by its members; composers, music publishers and text-writers. Through the managing agreement the originators give TONO an exclusive right to ...

and director of the Norsk Musikkfond. In 1997 he received the Oslo City Culture Grant. In 2011, he became chairman of the board of NMFF (Norwegian Music Publisher Association) and board member of TONO.

Bibliography

*Philip A. Kruse (2011): ''Musikkforlaget : fra copyright til cash'' (in Norwegian)

Discography

*1974: ''Bendik Singers'' (Triola), with Bendik Singers *1978: ''Norges Største Sjokk Å Lade Plate'' (Flower), with Einar Hagerup

References

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