Signe Bakke

About Signe Bakke

Signe Bakke is Professor of Piano and Accompaniment at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, where she has been employed since 1992. She gave her debut concert in 1981, and since then she has been active as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. She has been closely affiliated with the Edvard Grieg Museum — Troldhaugen in Bergen, where she has regularly given concerts for over twenty years.

Bakke has had engagements at the Bergen International Festival and has been featured at the Ultima — Oslo Contemporary Music Festival as well as many other festivals abroad. Bakke has collaborated with many composers and her premiere performances include works by Ketil Hvoslef, Morten Eide Pedersen, and the Japanese composer Karen Tanaka. The recording Crystalline — Piano Works by Karen Tanaka (2L, 2011) received excellent reviews internationally.

Bakke has also recorded several CDs featuring the works of Edvard Grieg. In 2021 she was honored together with James Clapperton, BIT-ensemble, René Wiik and Craig Farr, winning the Spellemannpris (The Norwegian Grammy Awards) in the category of contemporary music for the recording Soccorsi, featuring the music of the Norwegian composer Morten Eide Pedersen (1958–2014).