About Ketil Bjørnstad
Ketil Bjørnstad is a Norwegian pianist, composer and author. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz". He is an artist on the ECM record label, but has also published some twenty books, including novels, poetry, and essay collections. He showed great talent at a young age, and won the title of "Youth Piano Master" in 1966 and 1968. He has recorded more than 50 albums, for labels which include Universal, Kirkelig Kulturverksted and ECM.
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