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Eirik Raude percussion and festival director

2020 will be Eirik Raude’s fourth year as festival director for Risør chamber music party, but as a musician, he has been there seven times. He is considered one of the Nordic region’s foremost percussionists and has been a soloist with world-leading orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has won numerous awards and performed dozens of works, including Sofia Gubaidulina. In addition to classical and new music for percussion, he is involved in the meeting between music and other branches of art. Eirik is educated at the Norwegian College of Music and Yale University.