Ragnhild Berstad (born in Oslo in 1956) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Berstad started her musical career as a guitarist and music teacher. She later studied music theory at the University of Oslo and composition with Lasse Thoresen and Olav Anton Thommessen at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, where she received her diploma in 1997. Key Berstad works include Verto for voice, cello and tape (1992), recorded on the CD Definitely Pling-Plong; Respiro for amplified clarinet and tape (1994), performed during the ISCM World Music Days 1997 in Korea; the orchestral work Krets, premiered at the festival Stavanger Specu lum (1996) by the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Zeugma for chamber ensemble (1997), the string quartet Toreuma (1997), premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the 1999 Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, and emutatio (1999) for mezzo-soprano, chamber choir and chamber orchestra, commissioned for the EBU marking of the millennium. For this piece Berstad received the Edvard Prize in 2001 and in the same year she was bestowed with the Norwegian State Guarantee Income for Artists. More information...
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