Lars Haugbro

Lars Haugbro made his brilliant piano debut in Oslo in 1982 and has since then performed as soloist and chamber musician in Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, Russia, and the USA. He has appeared as soloist with a number of symphony orchestras, among them, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and he has made television and radio recordings for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).
Haugbro has a solid musical education with a Master in musicology from the University of Oslo and the Higher Diploma in piano from the Norwegian Academy of Music. The study of the fortepiano and research on Haydn’s piano music resulted in a doctoral degree in “Eighteenth-Century Performance Practice” from Cornell University (USA) in 2005.
Lars Haugbro has for a number of years taught at Foss Upper Secondary School and as Associate Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music. With his extensive background he is a highly regarded teacher, whose pupils and students have won prizes in competitions, performed in concert, and appeared as soloists with symphony orchestras in Norway and abroad. He is often invited to serve as a jury member at the International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition in Bergen and at the Young Musicians Competition in Oslo, among others.