Research Catalogue

Per Kjetil Farstad, Norwegian musician (1952), Fil. dr. and professor of music at the University of Agder, He has released several recordings. Farstad debuted on classical guitar and lute in Oslo, 1978. Apart from classical guitar and a various of historical lute- and guitar instruments, he plays modern plucked instruments.

Per Kjetil Farstad has a doctorate in music (Fil.dr.) from the University of Gothenburg in 2000, and a diploma in classical guitar and altogitar from the Norwegian State Academy in 1977. He also has graduations in public administration, cultural management, education, and studio/recording technique.

Farstad has published several research papers in lute- and guitar magazines in Europe and the USA, among others in Journal of the Lute Society of England, Journal of the Lute Society of America, Guitar Review USA, and Deutsche Lautengesellschaft, Germany. He has published several books and given lectures and concerts in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Serbia / Montenegro, Greece and Italy.

From 2000 to 2004, he was Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Agder. Since 1984 Farstad has been the driving force in the creation of popular music studies at the University of Agder, and central to establish  bachelor - master and doctoral degree programs in the field.

            In 2006 he was awarded the research price of Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters. He received the award for its comprehensive efforts as musicologist and performer on lute, guitar and similar stringed instruments. In this connection the Jury stated: “... He has that few other Norwegian musicologists succeeded in combining research and artistic activities on an international level.”

In 2014 he was appointed a honorary doctor: Dr.Phil. h.c. of the  Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.