Ragnar Rasmussen :: conductor and musician,Choral Conductor Norway, Chor Dirigent Chorleiter Norwegen, Direttore Coro Norvegia

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Ragnar Rasmussen -

is Associate Professor in choir conducting at the Music Conservatory, University of Tromso, Norway and artistic director/chief conductor of Vokal Nord vocal ensemble and the Mimas Chamber Choir – both in Tromso, Norway. In 2008/09 he is also engaged as conductor of the Norwegian National Youth Choir. During the academic year 2007/08 Mr. Rasmussen was guest professor at the Academy of Music, University of Slovenia.

He studied church music (Trondheim Music Conservatory, Norway), choir conducting with Eric Ericson and Stefan Sköld (Sweden) and orchestra conducting with Colin Metters, (Head of conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, London) and Jorma Panula (professor at former Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki).

As conductor of the choirs Saga, Mimas and Vokal Nord he has numerous first prizes including several awards for best conductor in choral competitions in Norway and abroad. He successfully participated at the competitions for choral conductors in Bologna, Italy (2001) and received 1. prize ("1.editione Concorso Internazionale Direttore de Coro, Mariele Ventre") and was awared the Albo d’oro award from Fondazione Mariele Ventre, Bologna, Italy (2004).

As guest conductor he works with orchestras throughout Europe (the baroque orchestra Concerto Farinelli, Tromso Symphony Orchestra, Thüringen Philharmonie, The Serbian Radio Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg State Academic Orchestra, and the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra) and with choirs from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia and the U.K.

Ragnar Rasmussen frequently holds lectures and workshops for conductors in Norway and abroad. He was gust lecturer at the the following institutions: The Music Conservatory (Piteå, Sweden), The Music Conservatory (Petrozavodsk, Russia), Hochshule für Musik und Theater (Hamburg, Germany), the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Budapest, Hungary), the A.I.Herzen State Pedagogical University (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Finland). and The Royal Conservatory, den Haag (the Netherlands). He is often a member of juries at prestigious national and international choir and conducting competitions.

In 2007 Ragnar Rasmussen was awarded the Tromso University College Honorary Research Prize. In January 2008 he received the prestigious Northern Lights Prize for the creative artistic leadership of the choirs Mimas and Vokal Nord, his international teaching activities and for the promotion of Norwegian culture abroad, and in December 2008 he was awarded the Honorary Prize of The Town of Tromso for his extraordinary artistic achievements, his contribution to artistic enjoyment joy among his fellow citizens and his contributions to positive profiling of his home town.