Tore Bruvoll (born 30 October 1978 in

Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Tromsø (city), city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies ...

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

Career

Bruvoll was educated at

Telemark University College Telemark University College (TUC, no, Høgskolen i Telemark, HiT) was, until its merger, the fourth largest university college in Norway. The University College had about 7000 students, split between four different locations in Bø, Notodden, Por ...

(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 whi ...

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

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Jon Anders Halvorsen Jon Anders Halvorsen (born 1968 in Lunde, Norway) is a Norwegian folk singer and physician. Career Halvorsen is a graduate of the Ole Bull Academy at Voss (1998–2000) and won the prize for best vocal performer at Landskappleiken in 2002. H ...

. Bruvoll has collaborated with many other artists in traditional folk like

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and

String Sisters String Sisters (or The String Sisters) are a folk supergroup made up of six of the world's leading female fiddlers. History Formation In January 1998 at the world-renowned Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, Scotland, Shetland fiddler Catrio ...

. 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 p ...

, which has resulted in the founding of the band

, including two nominations for 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 ...

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 usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently 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 ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

ukulele The ukulele ( ; from haw, ukulele , approximately ), also called Uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. It generally employs four nylon strings. The tone and volume of the instrumen ...

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 Make ...

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

*2004: ''Nattasang'' ( Heilo) *2007: ''Trillar For To'' (Heilo) ;With

*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 is a Norwegian masculine given name. The name began to become more common in the 1960s, and became roughly twelve times as popular from 1980 to 1990 before declining in popularity thereafter. As of 2017, there were 9,111 men in Norway with ...

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

Kirkelig Kulturverksted Kirkelig Kulturverksted (KKV) is a Norwegian company and record label, founded in 1974 by Erik Hillestad. Among the musicians who have issued records on the label are Ketil Bjørnstad, Kari Bremnes, Erik Bye, Ole Paus, Sigvart Dagsland, Bjørn Eidsv ...

)

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