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 programme for the most advanced students age 12 – 20. Sven conducts the Saturday School Chamber orchestra and Symphony Orchestra. He also teaches at and Heimdal videregående skole , Trondheim Katedralskole (Junior Colleges of Applied Music) and at the University of Trondheim NTNU

As a professional violist he performs regularly in chamber music and as substitute in 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.

Sven is a member of the National Board of the Norwegian Musicians Union.

He received his professional training at Trøndelag Conservatory of Music in Trondheim, St. Olaf College in Minnesota and Eastman School of Music,

Rochester NY. (Master of Music - Viola Performance and Literature 1984)