Horn player
Based in Oslo, Norway
Niklas Sebastian Grenvik is a freelance hornist based in Oslo, actively playing on both modern horn and historical horns. He has been a member of one of Scandinavia’s leading chamber music ensembles for winds, Oslo Kammerakademi, since 2014. In the early music field, he has been a member of Norway’s main early music ensemble, Barokkanerne, since Norwegian Baroque Orchestra and Barokkanerne merged in 2018. He is regularly playing with early music ensembles/orchestras around Europe.
His instrument park consists of an Alexander 103 (double horn), a Vienna horn by Jungwirth, a Raoux copy by Jungwirth (classical/early romantic natural horn), a Leichamschneider copy by Jungwirth (baroque horn) and an original H. Pihan Lyon (French piston horn) from the early 20th century.
His education consists of a bachelor’s degree (2014) and a master’s degree (2017) from the Norwegian Academy of Music, with an exchange year in Austria at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (2014). Horn teachers include Frøydis Ree Wekre, Julius Pranevičius, Steinar Granmo Nilsen, Hector MacDonald and Raimund Zell.
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