Liv Glaser (born 23 September 1935) is a Norwegian pianist, music teacher, and professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music. She was born in Oslo, the daughter of violinist Ernst Glaser and pianist Kari Aarvold Glaser. In 1971 she married director of culture Carsten Edvard Munch (1927–2005).
Biography Glaser was raised in a family where both parents were professional musicians. From 1952 to 1956 she studied with classical pianist Robert Riefling, and later with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. Her debut concert was in Oslo in 1960. She has lectured at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 1973, where she was appointed professor in 1994. Her paternal half-brother is cellist Ernst Simon Glaser.
Glaser has cooperated with the conductor Sir John Barbirolli. Having been a soloist in Prokofiev's third piano concerto, in Oslo under his taktstock, he invited her to Hallé Orchestra in Manchester 1962, with the same concert, and in 1963 she played Grieg's A minor concert with him and Hallé Orchestra on tour.
Glaser's repertoire ranges widely. She has played a lot of French music that she became close to during their studies in Paris. The classical repertoire might have been her closest, but she has also performed much Norwegian music, especially chamber music Grieg and compositions for piano solo, and has for many years been a regular performer at the Festspillene i Bergen (Bergen International Festival). She has collaborated with Arve Tellefsen for several years.
She was appointed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2018.
Honors 1988: Gammleng-prisen in the category Classic 2004: Lindeman-prisen
Discography
Edvard Grieg 1965: Lyric Pieces Vol. I (RCA Victor Red Seal) 1965: Lyric Pieces Vol. II (RCA Victor Red Seal) 1965: Lyric Pieces Vol. III (RCA Victor Red Seal) 1965: Lyric Pieces Vol. IV Concluded (RCA Victrola) 2007: Lyrical Travels With Edvard Grieg (Simax Classics)
Klaus Egge 1971: Sonata for violin and piano op. 3 (Philips Classics), feat. Arve Tellefsen
Agathe Backer Grøndahl 1975: Romanser (Norsk Kulturråds Klassikerserie), feat. Kari Frisell 1975: Klaverstykker (Norsk Kulturråds Klassikerserie) 1988: Piano Pieces And Songs (Norsk Kulturråds Klassikerserie), compilation feat. Kari Frisell
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1991: Mozart Piano Sonatas, No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (Simax Classics) 1993: Mozart Piano Sonatas, No. 6, 11 and 14 (Simax Classics) 1995: Mozart Piano Sonatas, No. 7, 8, 9 and 10 (Simax Classics) 1999: Mozart Piano Sonatas, No. 12, 13 and 17 (Simax Classics) 2000: Mozart Piano Sonatas, No. 15, 16 and 18 (Simax Classics)
Franz Schubert 1997: Schubert, Die Schöne Müllerin (Simax Classics), feat. Per Vollestad
Dedicated Ernst Glaser's 100 years anniversary 2004: Schubert & Schumann (Simax Classics), feat. Ernst Simon Glaser
Other 2006: Muzio Clementi For All Ages (Simax Classics), recited on a Longman & Clementi 1799 2014: Liebestreu (LAWO), feat. Helene Wold
References
External links at the Norwegian Academy of Music Liv Glaser – Biography at Grappa Music Ta det piano – Liv Glaser 02.04.1992 at NRK