Inger-Lise Ulsrud

Photo: Charlotte Wiig

Inger-Lise Ulsrud received her education from the Norwegian Academy of Music (church music), Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main (diploma exam as a concert organist), Stockholm (organ improvisation), and Düsseldorf (Messiaen).

In 1991, she won a prize at the improvisation competition in Altenberger Dom, and in 1996, she made her debut at Oslo Concert Hall.

Inger-Lise Ulsrud is now an organ and organ improvisation professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music and a cantor at Uranienborg Church in Oslo. In addition to extensive concert activities in Russia and much of Europe, she regularly gives master classes at home and abroad.

She has participated in numerous CD recordings and released solo CDs with Olivier Messiaen: Early Organ Works and Kjell Mørk Karlsen: Meditatio.

Inger-Lise Ulsrud has been the head of the church music department at the Norwegian Academy of Music for several years. In addition, she has held numerous positions as a member of the Chorale Book Committee in connection with the publication of the Norwegian Hymn Book 2013. She has been a jury member at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, a board member of the Oslo International Church Music Festival and now the Oslo Organ Festival.

She is regularly used as a jury member in international organ competitions.

Her organ improvisation "Confessions of an Improviser" textbook was published by Cantando Music Publishing in the autumn of 2018.

She was the artistic director of the Bodø International Organ Festival in 2020 and 2021, and in 2021, she was appointed an honorary member of the Women's Student Singing Association.

CDs

• I signet juletid, The Norwegian Student Singing Association, Lawo 2023
• Bjørn Morten Christophersen – The Lapse of Time, Simax 2022
• Loudmouthed Beauty, Clare Farr, bass trombone, Lawo 2022
• Stille som sne (Silent as Snow), Women's Student Singing Association, Lawo 2020
• Himmelrand (Sky edge), Uranienborg Vocal ensemble, 2L 2016
• Kjell Mørk Karlsen – Meditatio, Aurora 2014
• Brahms, Women's Student Singing Association, Lawo 2013
• Olivier Messiaen – Early Organ Works, Simax 2009
• Pebbles, Jonas Haltia, trumpet, Simax 2007
• Smak av himmel Spor av jord (Taste of heaven Trace of earth), Grappa 2000
• Transeamus usque Betlehem, The Norwegian Student Singing Association, DNSCD 1999
• Rop av fryd (Cry of joy), Nordstrand church choir, Lynor 1998
• Vårt øye ser mot Betlehem (Our eye looks towards Bethlehem), Nordstrand church choir, Lynor 1995