Bernt Moen

Bernt Moen
Bernt Moen with Red Kite at Vossajazz 2016. (Photo by Knut Andersen)
Background information
Birth name	Bernt André Moen
Born	(1974-02-17) 17 February 1974 (age 43) Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway
Genres	Jazz Black metal
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Piano, keyboards
Labels	Earache Records Season of Mist
Associated acts	Red Kite Shining Blood Red Throne Green Carnation
Website	www.berntmoen.no

Bernt André Moen (born 17 February 1974) is a Norwegian musician. He is known as a jazz pianist, composer and music teacher.

Moen was born in Kristiansand. He has been involved in a series of metal bands, and is now associate professor in performing rhythmic piano at the University of Agder, next to his career as performer. He has his education from Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, California, Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo and Berklee College of Music, and has worked as a piano teacher in a number of institutions.

Within his own studio ("Med adgang Steinway"), his own recording equipment and own label (BAM Records), he made is debut as solo artist in 2011, with three album releases, Closure featuring recordings from the period 2006–10, together with Fredrik Sahlander (bass) and Trygve Tambs-Lychè (drums), except the uptempo avalanche "FXG", where Geir Åge Johnsen takes care of the drums. The two solo albums are from a more resent date, recorded January (Vol.1) and in May (Vol.2). The repertoire on both is dominated by relatively short improvisations, often lyrical, quiet and with very deliberate use of pauses. But both are also proceeding showing a pianist with technique, including sound therapy, which enables him to exploit the instrument's sonic potential of slender tone migrations to deafening crescendi with his speedy fingers.