Sverre Tonning Olsen Bruland (2 February 1923,

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– 24 September 2013) was a Norwegian trumpet player and conductor. He was born in

. He studied with

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Igor Markevitch Igor Borisovich Markevitch (russian: Игорь Борисович Маркевич, ''Igor Borisovich Markevich'', uk, Ігор Борисович Маркевич, ''Ihor Borysovych Markevych''; 27 July 1912 – 7 March 1983) was a Russian- ...

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, at the

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in New York between 1949 and 1950, and at the

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, Austria. He was hired as a trumpeter by the so-called Second Division Ensemble in Oslo, where he played between 1945 and 1946, and by the

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in 1946, where he played between 1946 and 1966. He made his debut as an orchestra conductor with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1954. In 1966 he was hired as

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by the

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. From 1976 to 1988 he was chief conductor of Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra. Bruland won the 1st prize in the international conducting competition in Liverpool in 1958, and the conducting prize in Tanglewood, USA (Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer music school, Berkshire Musical Centre) in 1959. Bruland conducted the

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on two public occasions with Norwegian music on the program. He died on 24 September 2013, after a short illness.

References

* Olav Gurvin and Øyvind Anker ''Musikkleksikon'', 2. edition, Dreyer, 1959

External links

Sverre Bruland at Discogs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bruland, Sverre 1923 births 2013 deaths Musicians from Stavanger Norwegian conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Norwegian trumpeters Male trumpeters