Jon Laukvik

Jon Laukvik (born 16 December 1952, in Oslo) is a Norwegian organist. ^[1]

Laukvik studied church music, organ and piano in Oslo. Afterwards, he worked with Michael Schneider and Hugo Ruf in Cologne and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. In 1980, he was appointed professor ^[2] of organ at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. In 2001, he was appointed professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Since 2003, he is also a guest professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. ^[3]

Awards

• 1977: International organ week Nuremberg
• 1977: International organ competition (Deutscher evangelischer Kirchentag)

Publications

• Orgelschule zur historischen Aufführungspraxis

References

1. Cummings, David M. (2003). International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003. Routledge. p. 451. ISBN   978-1-85743-174-2 . Retrieved 2008-09-01.
2. Carusverlag Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
3. Musikhochschule Stuttgart Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• www.laukvik.de
• Member of the Norwegian Society of Composers
• Jurist for 2013 Westfield Center organ competition at Cornell University and Eastman School of Music