Sven Olav
Lyngstad
Sven Olav
Lyngstad teaches violin, viola and chamber music at the Trondheim City
School of Music. In this school most of his teaching is affiliated with the
Saturday School, a
special talent programme for the most advanced students age 10 – 19 .
Sven conducts the Saturday School Chamber orchestra and Symphony
Orchestra. He also teaches at and Heimdal videregående skole ,
Trondheim Katedralskole (Junior Colleges of Preforming Arts ) and at the
University of Trondheim NTNU
As a
professional violist he performs regularly in chamber music and with the
professional orchestras in Norway.
He has given
folk music presentations featuring the Hardanger
fiddle in the USA, Iceland and throughout Scandinavia, and he was invited to
give concerts and workshops at the
2004 Genius of the Violin
Festival in London. (Soul of the Fiddle) and
at the Spirit
of Norway Festival 2007 in Manchester.
He received his
professional training at Trøndelag Conservatory of Music in Trondheim, St. Olaf
College in Minnesota and Eastman School of Music,Rochester NY.
Sven has served
8 years as a member of the National Board of the Norwegian Musicians Union.
In 2010 he was
appointed honorary member of the Trondheim Chamber Music Society.