Øyvind Rauset (born October 3, 1952) is a Norwegian artist, musician and composer.
Rauset was born in
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...
, the son of Per Rauset from
Gloppen
Gloppen is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Counties of Norway, county of Vestland, Norway. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Nordfjord. Gloppen is generally subdivided into three areas: Hyen ...
and Mary Lyngmo from
Rossfjordstraumen. He studied at the
Art Academy of Oslo and Østlandets Music Conservatory.
He was a
violin
The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
ist in two famous folk rock bands from
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
, ''
Folque'' and ''Ym-Stammen'', but is more widely known for his own music on the two albums ''Landscape With Two Figures'' (with British songwriter
Richard James Burgess, 1982) and ''13 Impossible Dances + 1 Improbable'' (1988, revised 1992). He has also made music for TV programs in the NRK1 (The Norwegian Broadcasting). In April 2002 he was featured guest in the talk show "Stereo" (NRK1+2).
Rauset organized ''Night and Day'', the first Scandinavian exhibition of
gay and lesbian art, in 1985, and is a cultural ambassador of the International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network. He has participated several years at the Autumn Exhibition (
Høstutstillingen), the main annual show for Norway's artists.
Rauset also works as a graphic designer. For ten years he made monograms for the Norwegian royal family, and made the first digital edition of Norway's Coat of Arms (Riksvåpenet) in cooperation with its designer Sverre Morken in Norges Bank.
Since 2005 he has restarted his musical career and was chairman of the Oslo songwriter club "Nye Skalder" 2004-2006. In 2007 he became editor of the Norwegian songwriter website "viser.no" and, from 2013, editor of the Scandinavian music periodical VISOR.
Both in 2006 and 2014 Rauset was a finalist in ISC, the International Songwriting Competition (of Nashville, US).
References
External links
Øyvind Rauset's website
Website from viser.no - Norsk Viseforum
1952 births
Living people
Norwegian violinists
Norwegian male violinists
Norwegian composers
Norwegian male composers
Norwegian LGBTQ musicians
Musicians from Oslo
21st-century Norwegian violinists
21st-century Norwegian male musicians
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