{"id":125,"date":"2016-05-03T11:29:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinalfsen.no\/?page_id=125&lang=en"},"modified":"2020-06-08T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T07:13:45","slug":"about-martin-alfsen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.martinalfsen.no\/en\/about-martin-alfsen\/","title":{"rendered":"About Martin Alfsen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"korps\"Martin Alfsen, musician, producer, songwriter and choir director was born on 4th January 1959. After serving in the military as a trombonist in The Band Of The King\u2019s Guard, he entered the Conservatory of Music in Oslo. Already during his student years he started directing the Reflex choir in the church he and his family attended in Oslo. In 1985 the Reflex choir made their national breakthrough with the album \u201cREFLEX\u201d. In the late eighties and early nineties Alfsen would develop his composing and production skills when working for Master Music, Norway\u2019s leading company in contemporary christian music. His albums with Reflex would be important contributions to the repertoire of christian choirs and music groups throughout Scandinavia.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1993 Reflex recorded the Martin Alfsen song \u201cLike A Mighty River\u201d on the \u201cDenneDagen\u201d- album. The song became a christian music hit and was covered by a great number of European choirs and the well known American gospel group \u201cThe Kurt Carr Singers\u201d for their album \u201cSerious About It\u201d. The song was even included on \u201cThe Very Best Of Kurt Carr\u201d from 2009.<\/p>\n

\"kjell_hanne_martin\"In the mid nineties Martin Alfsen was the musical director for a popular Norwegian TV series presenting well known traditional christian songs and church hymns. The TV series would result in a series of bestselling albums, produced by Alfsen for the Master Music label.<\/p>\n

With more than 300 songs recorded, extensive touring with his Reflex Choir all over Europe, and lots of radio and TV performances, Martin has become of one of Scandinvia\u2019s most peformed songwriters in Christian music. As a producer and arranger he has been involved in more than fifty albums including releases with international artists like Andrae Crouch, Richard Smallwood and Adrian Snell as well as a wealth of domestically known artists. Among them are bestselling female vocalist Hanne Krogh, sax player ArildStav, actress and singer IngerLiseRypdal, singer Rita Eriksen, singer Trine Rein, singer GauteOrm\u00e5sen and trumpet ace Finn Eriksen. As a choir director Martin has toured extensively all over Europe.<\/p>\n

Martin Alfsen has also composed some larger works:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The praise and worship mass \u201cLiv\u201d<\/a>, 1995<\/p>\n

The choir cantata \u201cSela\u201d<\/a>, 1996<\/p>\n

The youth musical \u201cEtterf\u00f8lgerne\u201d, 1999<\/p>\n

The millennium cantata \u201cLogos\u201d<\/a> (in cooperation with Jens Wendelboe), 2000<\/p>\n

The passion \u201c7 d\u00f8gni Jerusalem\u201d<\/a>, 2000<\/p>\n

The mass \u201cShout All Over God\u2019s Heaven\u201d<\/a> based on Negro Spirituals, 2004<\/p>\n

\u201cThe River\u201d<\/a> A Gospel musical work \u2013 2006<\/p>\n

The Young and Soulful Messiah \u2013 2013 (new arrangements to Handel\u2019s great oratory)<\/p>\n

2014 SONG OF FREEDOM \u2013 A musical tribute to Nelson Mandela (with Arne Hiorth)<\/p>\n

The mass \u201cStjerneskinn\u201d, recorded and relased in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Martin Alfsen made his debut as an author in the autumn of 2002 with the book \u201cJesus imusikken \u2013 fraGregoriansk sang tilhiphop<\/a>\u201d (Jesus in the music from Gregorian chant to hip hop) published by Luther Forlag. <\/p>\n

Martin was the editor of the bestselling \u201cGospelsangboka\u201d (The great gospel songbook) that was published by NorskMusikforlag in the autumn of 2005 and in the spring of 2006 his method for rythmical choirs \u201cJazz-Gospel-Soul-Pop Choir\u201d was published.  <\/p>\n

Martin\u2019s newest book \u00abL\u00e5tskriverh\u00e5ndboka\u00bb (The Songwriter\u2019s Handbook) was published in 2010.<\/p>\n

In 2019 Martin\u2019s autobiography \u201cDirigenten \u2013 musikalskeogmindremusikalskeminner\u201d (The director \u2013 musical and less musical memories) was published by Hermon Publishers.<\/p>\n

Since 1994 Martin has held the position as the head of the vocal music section at R\u00f8nningenFolkeh\u00f8gskole<\/a> in Oslo.<\/p>\n

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