Steinar Ofsdal

Steinar Ofsdal
Steinar Ofsdal at stage in 2016
Background information
Born	(1948-10-04) 4 October 1948 (age 68) Oslo, Norway
Origin	Norway
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Composer, musician
Instruments	Flutes
Website	Official website

Steinar Ofsdal (born 4 October 1948) is a Norwegian composer and musician (flute).

Ofsdal has since 1967 performed on numerous stages in Norway, and worldwide in different settings. He has performed alone or within one of his many bands, and is also known as one of the members of the folk group Bukkene Bruse, including Annbjørg Lien, Arve Moen Bergset and Bjørn Ole Rasch. He has written several compositions for his own concert use, and music for theater, film, television and radio.

Ofsdal won the Spellemannprisen 1983 in the Open class for the album Hat Trick and Spellemannprisen 1989 with Per Midtstigen in the class Folk / Old Norwegian Folk Dance for the album Sjøfløyta. Bukkene Bruse was awarded Spellemannprisen 1993 in the class Children's music. He was also awarded Gammleng-prisen 1999 in open class and was nominated for Edvard Prize 2005, in the class Traditional folk music. In 2009 he was twice winner of the championship in folk music (Landskappleiken Geilo) in sjøfløyte (sea flute) and seljefløyte (willow flute), and he received Egil Storbekkens Music Prize for 2009, and is Professor of music at the Norges Musikkhøgskole and the Ole Bull Academy in Norway.