Lars Martin Myhre
Norwegian musician
Lars Martin Myhre (10 August 1956 – 28 December 2024) was a Norwegian composer, guitarist, pianist, singer and record producer residing in Sandefjord. He was best known for his collaboration with Odd Børretzen, but for more than 30 years was involved in the musical life of Norway and released a dozen albums, participated in or produced albums for other artists and composed film music, musicals and theater music. He was successful in a variety of music genres such as jazz, show and classical music.
Life and career
Myhre was born on 10 August 1956. At the start of his career he was an active jazz musician. For one he started Slagen Big Band in 1977 and was conductor of the band for 10 years. With the SBB, he released the album Bak speilet with lyrics by Jens Bjørneboe in 1984. From 1980 until 1993, he was musical director for the group Friteater Thesbiteateret. In this period he wrote music to more than twenty plays and two musicals, namely Nattklubben in 1987 and Oppdagelsen av Columbus together with Odd Børretzen in 1992.
He wrote music for feature films Henrys bakværelse directed by Gianni Lepre in 1982 and Prinsen av Fogo directed by Inge Tenvik in 1987, and the documentary Å seile sin egen sjø of Øyvind Sandberg in 2002.
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