The pianist Einar Røttingen is Professor of Music Performance at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen. He was educated at the Bergen Music Conservatory (after 1995: Grieg Academy) and Eastman School of Music. Røttingen has performed extensively throughout Europe, USA, Japan, and China. CD recordings include the complete solo piano music and Piano Concerto of Harald Sæverud (1996), solo CDs Avgarde (2000) and Norwegian Variations (2005, “Selection” in International Piano and awarded “Record of the year” by International Edvard Grieg Society of Great Britain), and collaborative CDs with violin: Hika (2001) with flute: Chromos (2007), with voice: Serre Chaudes (2009), Fête Galantes (2016), Voices of Women (2015) and piano four hands: George Crumb’s Makrokosmos III-IV (2003). CD releases also include Gardens of Hokkaido (2010, with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra), Valen Trio (2013), Chamber Works of Knut Vaage (2020) and a series of nine CDs Chamber Works of Ketil Hvoslef (2014-2022). In 2006 he completed the PhD dissertation at the Norwegian Academy of Music: Establishing a Norwegian Piano Tradition: Interpretive Aspects of Edvard Grieg’s Ballade Op. 24, Fartein Valen’s Sonata No. 2 Op. 38 and Geirr Tveitt’s Sonata No. 29 Op. 129. He was the project leader for the three-year artistic research project (Un-) settling Sites and Styles: In Search of New Expressive Means (2017-2020) sponsored by Grieg Academy, University of Bergen and the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. Røttingen has currently taken an interest in the music of Morton Feldman and performed his Triadic Memories in 2023 as part of the AR project Sounding Philosophy (dir. Dàniel Birò) and future performance of Feldman’s Trio in 2024 with the Valen Trio. Røttingen has initiated and organised contemporary music activities in Bergen (festivals, ensembles, concert series).