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Sindre Sætre

<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:595.0pt 842.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> Percussionist Sindre Sætre is born and raised in Bergen, Norway. He started taking lessons in classical percussion at an early age at the Bergen culture school and since then he have gone from studies at the Grieg Academy of Music, UiB to Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio to Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He has performed as a soloist together with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra, Trondheim Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Norwegian Army Band, and several other semi- professional and amateur ensembles in Norway on several occasions. In 2004 he won first price in the Norwegian National Youth Competition and the same year he was also one of the finalists in the Norwegian EBU's European Youth Competition. Today, Sindre go between master studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and working as a freelance musician in Norway and Sweden.