Eirik Gjerdevik - guest soloist NYBBS end of course Concert 2nd August
This years National Youth Brass Band of Scotland are delighted to welcome from Norway Eirik Gjerdevik as the guest soloist and tutor for the week of 26th July - 2nd August in Perth and Stirling.
NYBBS senior band will gather at Perth College and the Reserve and Childrens band will meet at YMCA in Stirling. Along with NYBBS regular tutors and Musical Director Russell Gray, the young people attending are in for an inspirational and enjoyable week of music making, culminating in the the end of couse concert with all three bands in Perth Concert Hall on Saturday 2nd August at 3 p.m.
Eirik Gjerdevik was born in 1968 in Baldersheim in Fusa. He started his career in Baldersheim musikklag, which his mother was one of the founders.
Eirik has worked with several different things, such as farming, fishing and working in warehouse before the music became his profession. It started in Manger folkeh°gskole in 1986.
Eirik joined Eikanger & Bjorsvik musikklag in 1987, and they won the European Championship in 1988 and 1989.
Then he began studying with Nils Eivind Nikolaisen at the Bergen Musikkonservatorium from 1990 to 1992. From 1992 to 1994 he studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester whith Howard Snell, Brian Kingsley ( Opera North), Andrew Duncan, (Halle orchestra) and Timoty Reynish.
From 1996 he started his professional career with the Navy Band in Bergen.
Eirik is a busy man with a lot of projects, such as:
Summer music classes in Norway and abroad.
Conducting many brass bands, and is the main conductor in Lungegaarden wind band and Rong brass.
Guest performances with Ternes brass, Manger musikklag, Molde brass band, Sandefjord brass symposium and Eikanger Bjorsvik.
Eirik is often used as a soloist with the Bergen Military Band, and is Yamaha's soloist in Scandinavia and international.
He has a lot of soloist jobs with bands and orchestras in Norway, England, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Faroe Island, Bulgaria and in Australia. He is also been a guest lecturer at Salford University, Manger folkehogskule, Brisbane conservatoire and Sydney conservatoire among others.
In 2005 he realeased the album "Eirik the Viking".
2011,He made a new solo CD with orchestra."Music for blue days". which was released in october 2012.
Eirik's latest tour was to Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya in February 2013
