{{Short description|Norwegian saxophonist}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Kristian Bergheim | image = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|1926|6|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Bærum, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2010|5|30|1926|6|6}} | death_place = | origin = | instrument = Tenor saxophone | occupation = saxophonist | years_active = 1944–1990 | label = Gemini Records | associated_acts = Rowland Greenberg <br/>Karl Otto Hoff <br/>Appaloosa Mainstream Ensemble <br/>Per Borthen Swing Dept. Ltd <br/>Totti Bergh | website = }}
'''Kristian Bergheim''' (6 June 1926 – 30 May 2010) was a noted saxophonist, considered one of the few in Norway of international caliber.<ref name=nrk>{{cite news |title= Kristian Bergheim in memoriam |first= Jan Ditlev |last= Hansen |url= http://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_jazz/1.7158180 |publisher= Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation |location= Oslo |date= 2010-06-08 |language= no }}</ref>
== Biography == Bergheim was born and spent most of his life in Bærum; he was brought up in Asker and in Stabekk. He played in a number of bands and orchestras before devoting his professional life to music, in 1948. He was repeatedly named best Norwegian saxophonist when such contests were common in the 1950s and 1960s.<ref name=nrk/>
He led his own bands and orchestras starting in 1960, focusing mostly on swing. He won the highest Norwegian jazz award, Buddyprisen, in 1978 and the Gammleng-prisen in 1991. Because of a lung ailment, he retired in 1990.<ref name=jazzarkivet>{{cite news|title=Kristian Bergheim er død |first=Bjørn |last=Stendahl |url=http://www.jazzarkivet.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108:kristian-bergheim-er-dod&catid=16:aktuellt&Itemid=35 |publisher=The Norwegian Jazz Archives |location=Oslo |date=2010-06-02 |language=no |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206023111/http://www.jazzarkivet.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108%3Akristian-bergheim-er-dod&catid=16%3Aaktuellt&Itemid=35 |archive-date=2011-02-06 }}</ref>
Bergheim was for some time married to noted singer and actress Anita Thallaug.
== Honors == *1978: Buddyprisen *1991: Gammlengprisen in the class Jazz<ref name=nrk/>
==Discography== * Jazz in Norway, volume 1 (RCA, 1954) * Arvid Gram Paulsen, Mikkel Flagstad, Kristian Bergheim (1977, Herman) * Liva at Malla, (1977, Norjazz) * Rainbow Session - vol 2, with Bjarne Nerem, Kristian Bergheim (1990) OCP 101-2
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== External links == *[http://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_jazz/1.7158180 Kristian Bergheim in memoriam] by Jan Ditlev Hansen at NRK Jazz
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bergheim, Kristian}} Category:1926 births Category:2010 deaths Category:Musicians from Bærum Category:Norwegian jazz saxophonists Category:20th-century Norwegian saxophonists Category:Male saxophonists Category:20th-century Norwegian male musicians