Jens Harald Bratlie
Piano | Norwegian | b. 1948
About Jens Harald Bratlie
Jens Harald Bratlie (b.1948) is one of Norway's foremost pianists, with a career spanning six decades. He made his debut at the University Aula in Oslo in 1965 at the age of seventeen, having studied with Hans Solum since the age of eight. From 1966 to 1968 he studied with Vlado Perlemuter at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning its First Prize in 1969, and he later worked with Robert Riefling and briefly with Ilona Kabos in London.
He has received the Riefling Prize, the Grieg Prize, the Norwegian Music Critics' Award (1974) and Spellemannprisen twice. Since 1974 he has been pianist of the Oslo Trio with Stig Nilsson and Aage Kvalbein. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras across Scandinavia, the USA, France, Austria, Poland and Lithuania, and toured the former Soviet Union in 1972. He served as Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 1994 to 2018, including as Rector 1999–2002.
