Håkon Austbø, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Håkon Austbø

Norwegian musician

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1948

Place of Birth: Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway

Profession: professor, pianist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Håkon Austbø (born October 22, 1948) is a Norwegian classical pianist.
He has created many recordings for the label Brilliant Classics and Naxos Records, and is also a professor at the Amsterdam conservatory. Born in Kongsberg, Austbø studied in Paris, New York and Munich, before settling in the Netherlands in 1974. Austbø's recordings include works by Olivier Messiaen (complete works for piano), Claude Debussy (complete works for piano), Alexander Scriabin (complete piano sonatas), Erik Satie, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Leoš Janácek (complete works for piano), and Edvard Grieg (complete Lyric Pieces). Austbø was also an initiator and director of the LUCE project, which was founded to realize Scriabin's Clavier à lumières.