{{Short description|Norwegian traditional folk singer, hardanger fiddler, and classical violinist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

[[File:Arve Moen Bergset med Oslo Filharmonien (cropped).JPG|thumb|Arve Moen playing hardanger fiddle]]

'''Arve Moen Bergset''' (born 13 March 1972) is a Norwegian traditional folk singer, hardanger fiddler, and classical violinist. He is known both for his solo works as well as for his works with Bukkene Bruse.

== Life and career ==

He was born in Sandnessjøen, Nordland County in 1972. When he was five, he moved to Vinje, an area with rich folk music traditions. Odd Nordstoga was among his childhood friends. At eight, he started taking song lessons with Sondre Bratland.<ref name=nrk>Anne Sofie Stang et al: [http://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_p2/1.3400047 Arve Moen Bergset] NRK, 6 September 2007 {{in lang|no}}</ref> He released two albums of folk and traditional religious music as a boy singer in 1986 (''Litle Fuglen'', cassette) and ''Arvesølv'' in 1987. For ''Arvesølv'', he won the Spellemannprisen award in the category of traditional music.

Bergset is a member of Bukkene Bruse, a Norwegian folk music group, for whom he sings and plays the violin.

In 1994, Bergset was an Olympic musician at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.<ref name=opo>[https://archive.today/20130413223039/http://www.oslofilharmonien.no/internet/oslofil.nsf/pages/arve-moen-bergset-no Arve Moen Bergset] Oslofilharmonien.no, retrieved 30 March 2013</ref>

Parallel to his folk music career, he is a classical musician,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/21/arts/norway-honors-grieg-who-made-its-folk-tunes-art.html?pagewanted=2|title=Norway Honors Grieg, Who Made Its Folk Tunes Art |date=21 June 1993|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=13 January 2010 | first=John | last=Rockwell}}</ref> educated at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has played with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra<ref>[http://snl.no/Arve_Moen_Bergset Arve Moen Bergset] Store Norske Leksikon {{in lang|no}}, retrieved 30 March 2013</ref> and is since 2003 employed as a violinist in the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.<ref name=opo/>

Bergset played the solo part in the recording of the two Hardanger Fiddle Concertos by Geirr Tveitt with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in September 1999, under the direction of Ole Kristian Ruud.

Arve Moen Bergset also performs with his wife, pianist Gudrun Skretting. Their daughter Margrete (Maggie) was a finalist in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2008.<ref>Eyvind Sverre Menne: [http://www.budstikka.no/kultur/mgp-jr-jubel-for-maggie-1.3468377 MGP jr. jubel for"Maggie"] Budstikka, 5 September 2008</ref> The family lives in Billingstad, Akershus County.

== Discography ==

=== Solo records === * ''Litle fuglen'' (1986, cassette) * ''Arvesølv'' (1987) *''Religiøse folketonar'' (1997)

=== As soloist === * Johan Kvandal: ''Fantasia for hardingfele og orkester'' (1999 – soloist with hardanger fiddle)) with Kristiansand kammerorkester and conductor Jan Stigmer. * Stephen Frost: ''Bassoon Concerto; Oboe Concerto; The Lesson'' (2000 – soloist as classical singer at the Lesson) with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tony Harrison * Geirr Tveitt: ''To konsertar for hardingfele og orkester'' (2002 – soloist with hardanger fiddle) with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ole Kristian Ruud * Johan Halvorsens ''Fossegrimen, Greetings to Roosevelt'' (2002 – soloist with hardanger fiddle) with Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.

=== With Bukkene Bruse === See Bukkene Bruse

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