Biography
Ole Martin Huser-Olsen, (b. 1986) is a Norwegian classical guitarist. He has an MA in Classical Guitar Performance from the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he was also awarded the highest mark for his concertant exam.
He has toured large parts of Norway, among which are a concert in Edvard Grieg's home Troldhaugen and annual recitals at Den norske opera - Oslo Opera House (2008-2011), Scandinavia and Germany. He has given concerts in Los Angeles, Helsinki, the prestigious Centre Pompidou in Paris, Unerhörte Musik in Berlin, Rome, Copenhagen amongst many other cities.
Often heard as a soloist, Ole Martin also enjoys collaborating with other musicians, like renowned barytone Knut Skram, Oslo String Quartet, Trondheimsolistene, Ensemble Ernst, Ensemble Aksiom and many other up-and-coming young classical musicians in Norway. With his debut as an orchestral soloist in 2012, he has proven that he commands and has a passion for the richness of musical history, with a repertoire spanning from the Rennaissance to Modernism and reaching up to the freshest of contemporary music.
Ole Martin’s first solo album, Lockdown Miniatures, was published on Aurora Records in 2022. And a recording featuring the music of the norwegian composer Martin Rane Bauck (LAWO Classics, 2019): Through a network of illuminated streets.
He has also three recordings with the ensemble Aksiom (LAWO, 2016, Mere Records 2018 and Mere Records 2022) and a recording with Trio Poetica (Fairymusic 2022).
He has worked as freelance musician since 2012.
He received the award “Musician of the Year” in 2022 by the Norwegian Composer´s Society.
Ole Martin is a member of The Progression Ensemble and Aksiom.
Ole Martin has performed the world premiere of…
-solo works by:
Eric Egan (Fantasia 1, 2 4 and 8, 2022; 12 miniatures, 2014); Tirill Mohn (Preludium, 2023); Charlotte Piene (No Silence. Pause. 2021); Klaus Sandvik (Dry, Moist, Wet, 2019; Vel hjem, 2022); Lauri Supponen (Quotidian Credo, 2021); Henrik Ødegaard (Antiphona X, 2021); Ewa Serafin (Lite Rekviem, 2021); Jon Mostad (Bibelsk suite - Ikoner i Musikk, 2021); Jan Tariq Rui-Rahman (Ludr nr. 1, JTWV 193, 2020; Hamar, JTWV 194, 2020); Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred (Lockdown miniature #3, 2020); Marcus Paus (Weserübung, 2020; Evening Star, 2020); Martin Romberg (Nilmë, 2020; Varangian Lied, 2021); Lewis Krauthamer (Spring 2019, 2019); Hugo Harmens (Transparancies, 2016); Lasse Passage Nøsted (Nostalgi er ikke hva det engang var, 2016); Frank Nordensten (Etyde, 2015); Dagfinn Koch (Hud, 2014; Berceuse, 2015; Wiegelied, 2019; Nachruf, 2021; Ninnananna, 2021); Martin Rane Bauck (…fretted with golden fire… 2014); , Stine Sørlie (norwegian premiere of “In the garden”, 2014); Rainer Rubbert. (Aus Snowdens Zeit, 2014); Anders Torgunrud Røshol (The song of Earth, 2014; Namida, 2015); Geir Frode Stavsøien (Agathelle, 2014; YOD (Mare, Chirine, Hglgp), 2017);
-chamber works by:
Jon Mostad (Lei, milde ljos, 2022), Henrik Ødegaard (Tre sanger til dikt av Liv Holtskog, 2021); Anna Aardalen (Intertwined, 2021); Morten Christophersen (Patetisk Scherzo, 2021); Kari Telstad Sundet (Spinlock dreaming, 2021); Martin Kvalø (It forms harmonic ruins, 2021); Sondre Bryntesen (In dire need of patience, 2021); Tirill Mohn (Kjærlighetsstien, 2023; Poplene på Val, 2022; Four songs to W.B. Yeats´ poetry, 2021); Kari Beate Tandberg (Processus, 2020); Ginto Mizuki (Water music, 2020); Marcus Paus (Klagene, 2021; Samboere, 2017; Sangen og katastrofen, 2018); Ewa Serafin (Sanger til Casper André Lugg, 2018); Gisle Kverndokk (Tre sanger til dikt av Catherine Blaavinge Bjørnevog, 2018); Kjell Habbestad (Seseljasongar, 2018); Dagfinn Koch (Hun tilhører ikke verden, 2016; Röslein sprach, 2018; Transitus Fluvii, 2020; Non Scordarme, 2020); Bjørn Howard Kruse (Kathexis, 2014); Johan Svensson (DAC Fugue, 2014); Rebecca Ahvenniemi (Triangulation, 2013); Bára Sigurjónsdóttir (Dúett fyrir sópran-saxófón og gitár, 2008); Øyvind Mæland, Martin Rane Bauck,
-ensemble and orchestral works and operas by:
Jo David Meyer Lysne (LARM, 2023); Esaias Järnegard (Songs for Simone, 2021); Tine Surel Lange (De ni bølgene, 2021); Lisa Streich (Papirosn, 2013; zucker, 2016); Lauri Supponen (UBI Calamari, 2018), Øyvind Mæland (Étude ralentissante, 2014; Steintrinn, 2018);, Lars Skoglund (En reise til Sri Lanka, 2018), Rebecka Ahvenniemi (Opera Trailer - Beyoné and beyond, 2018), Johan Svensson (Shiver, 2014); Martin Rane Bauck (K - music theater on Kafka´s The Process, with dramatist Nelly Winterhalder, 2023; Flash mob, 2022; Ithaka 2 and 3. 2022; Misantropi IIIb, 2014); Eivind Buene, Danielle Dahl (Music for bursting blood vessels, 2018); Knut Olaf Sunde (Comfort Music, 2015; Himdalen, 2018); Martin Ødegård (Readings of Kafka, 2013; L´Aubade, 2017); Tyler Futrell (Treatise, 2013); Maja Linderoth, Hugo Harmens (JS Music Zero, 2013); David Antunez Rodriguez,
…among other works…
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
2010-2012: Performing Master's from The Norwegian Academy of Music
2006-2010: Performing Bachelor's from The Norwegian Academy of Music
2005-2006: Performing musician and conductor of two children's choirs
2003-2005: Musical specialization at Greåker High School, Sven Lundestad as tutor
Tutors:
2008-2012: Prof. Jan Danielsen
2003-2008: Prof. Sven Lundestad
Private Tutelage/Master Class - a selection:
Liv Glaser, Hopkinson Smith, Håvard Gimse, Fabio Zanon, Rolf Lislevand, Eliot Fisk, Pablo Marquez, Olav Anton Thommessen, Bjørn Kruse, Erik Stenstadvold, Are Sandbakken, Lorenzo Micheli