Halgeir Schiager
Organ | Liner notes | Norwegian | b. 1955
About Halgeir Schiager
Halgeir Schiager studied organ with Magne Elvestrand in Oslo, and later in Munich and Strasbourg with Professors Franz Lehrndorfer and Daniel Roth respectively. He made his debut in 1985 in Oslo Concert Hall. Schiager has given concerts in many European countries and made radio recordings in Germany and Norway. He has participated in several critically acclaimed CD productions featuring works by Leif Solberg and Kjell Mørk Karlsen, among others.
He has recorded the complete organ works by the Czech composer Petr Eben for the British label Hyperion. In 2001 he received the Norwegian Critics' Prize. He has also premiered works by several Norwegian composers and has served as a jury member in international organ competi tions. In 2008 he earned his doctorate at the Norwegian Academy of Music with a dissertation on interpretative aspects in Gustav Merkel's organ works.
Since 2007, Schiager has served as cantor in the parish of Paulus and Sofienberg in Oslo. He initiated an organ project at Sofienberg Church, which came to fruition in 2014 with the new Eule organ in the German Romantic style. From 2019 to 2024, he was the cantor of Ullern Parish in Oslo and organised an organ concert series in the Paulus and Sof ienberg Churches. He was director of the Oslo Organ Festival from 2018 to 2024.
