Grete Helle Rasmussen

Grete Helle Rasmussen has an incredibly versatile artist. She has worked as a soloist and appeared in numerous performances as a chamber musician, including on radio and television, in connection with recordings, and in school and institutional concerts organized by the Norwegian Concert Institute (Rikskonsertene) and the National Theatre (Riksteateret). In addition to being a musician she is also an author.

Rasmussen was educated at the Østlandet Music Conservatory and the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. She studied piano with Synøve Løchen, Professor Stanislav Knor, and Professor Jens Harald Bratlie.

She has played a central role as a creator and producer of new concert formats and collaborative projects between children and adults, amateurs, and professional performers. In 2004, she contributed to the CD recording *Stygge piker* (Grappa), and in 2008 she released the CD *Remembrance* (Simax) in collaboration with Øivind Elgenes.

Rasmussen has been instrumental in developing Vietnam’s first instrumental and vocal teacher education at the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi. She has also overseen teacher courses at Valdres Summer Symphony and a new educational initiative for students in the Aprendiz music project in Brazil. She was responsible for creating the curriculum for “Musikk på Majorstuen School, Grades 5–7” and “Grades 8–10” under Barratt Due Music Institute.

Grete Helle Rasmussen teaches music pedagogy, general music didactics, and piano didactics, and has been affiliated with Barratt Due Institute of Music since 1985.

Photo: Nadia Frantsen