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Harald Sæther

Harald Sæther was Born 9 May 1946 at Lønset in Sør- Trøndelag, Norway. He was educated at Veitvet Music Conservatory in Oslo and Trøndelag  Music Conservatory in Trondheim, with violin as the main instrument and the Grieg Academy in Bergen, with Composition as the main discipline.

Sæther studied composition with Terje Bjorklund and Henning Sommero in Trondheim, and Svein Hundsnes in Stavanger. He took his Masters degree with Morten Eide Pedersen in Bergen and has attended masterclasses in composition with Georg Friedrich Haas, Mathias Spahlinger, Kaija Saariaho, Ivar Frounberg and Michael Finissy.

 Harald Sæther has written music to lyrics by Petter Schramm, Margunn Hageberg, Mona Høvring, Irene Paulsen (all Norwegian), Esther Tellermann (France), in multiple contexts been closely collaborating with the Italian poet Nanni Cagnone with the works "Index vacuus," "Waves", "Obstupescit Venticinque", "a ' in altre parole ' b" from the poetry collection: "What's he to Hecuba or Hecuba to him?" 

Sæther has worked as a music teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in Trondheim for 3 years, violinist (soloist and orchestral musician) for 25 years, teacher at the music school for 15 years, principal of municipal music schools and cultural schools in total 5 years and music coordinator at the Opera in Kristiansund for 1 ½ years.