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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Øyvind Rauset
- Øyvind Rauset (born October 3, 1952) is a Norwegian artist, musician and composer. Rauset was born in Oslo, the son of Per Rauset from Gloppen and Mary Lyngmo from Rossfjordstraumen.
- He studied at the Art Academy of Oslo and Østlandets Music Conservatory. He was a violinist in two famous folk rock bands from Norway, Folque and Ym-Stammen, but is more widely known for his own music on the two albums Landscape With Two Figures (with British songwriter Richard James Burgess, 1982) and 13 Impossible Dances + 1 Improbable (1988, revised 1992).
- He has also made music for TV programs in the NRK1 (The Norwegian Broadcasting).
- In April 2002 he was featured guest in the talk show "Stereo" (NRK1+2). Rauset organized Night and Day, the first Scandinavian exhibition of gay and lesbian art, in 1985, and is a cultural ambassador of the International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network.
- He has participated several years at the Autumn Exhibition (Høstutstillingen), the main annual show for Norway's artists. Rauset also works as a graphic designer.
- For ten years he made monograms for the Norwegian royal family, and worked on the first digital edition of the Royal Coat of Arms.
- Since 2005 he has restarted his musical career and was chairman of the Oslo songwriter club "Nye Skalder" 2004-2006.
- In 2007 he became editor of the Norwegian songwriter website "viser.no" and, from 2013, editor of the Scandinavian music periodical VISOR. Both in 2006 and 2014 Rauset was a finalist in ISC, the International Songwriting Competition (of Nashville, US).
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