Peter Asp

Peter Asp

 

Over the past decade he attended festivals such as Båstad Chamber Music Festival (Sweden), Glasperlenspiel Festival (Estonia) and International Spring Orchestra Festival (Malta). Performed all over the world as soloist and as chamber musician, from Kirkenes (Norway) in north to Rosario (Argentina) in south and from Morelia (Mexico) in west to Amman (Jordan) in east. Played together with prominent Turkish musicians such as Idil Biret in Istanbul and Sefika Kutluer in Istanbul, Ankara and Granada. He was onstage soloist on the National Theater in Oslo in Tjeckov’s ’’The Cherry Orchard’’ and performed together with academy award winner Marion Cotillard. Given recitals in Barcelona, Malmö, Vilnius, Oslo, London, Munich and Lima. He has been working with great orchestras all over Europe such as; Orquestra Simfoniaca de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC), European Union Chamber Orchestra (EUCO), La Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Nordica and Camerata Kleipeda.

 

Since 2011 he has been teaching violin at the British School of Barcelona and contributed to build up a substantial violin class at the school.

 

Started to play the violin at the age of six and from the age of 12 he attended chamber music courses and master classes all around Sweden. He played with Swedish Youth Chamber Orchestra from 1986 to 1989. He is graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with high marks and completed  his Master in Chamber Music with professors Terje Moe Hansen and Solve Sigerland in 1998.

 

He was concertmaster of the Norwegian National Theater Orchestra from 2002 to 2004 and at Lillestroms Theater in 2007.

 

In 2004 joined the European Union Chamber Orchestra and played concerts all over the world. Bringing great music to the prestigious concert halls in great cities and also to the forgotten corners in the world.

 

Since 2011 he has been a regular in the first violin section of the OBC, Liceu Orchestra and Concerts Arts Symphony Orchestra.