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Apr 05, 1950 Norway 74 years old
musician and film score composer
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About Bent Åserud
- Bent Åserud (born 5 April 1950) is a Norwegian musician and film score composer.Åserud co-founded the group Juniper Greene in 1966, where he was a vocalist and played the guitar.
- The band started playing blues but later changed to progressive rock.
- It signed its first record contract in 1971.
- He graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo in 1977.Along with Geir Bøhren, Åserud had his breakthrough as a film score composer for Orion's Belt with the theme Svalbardtema, which has become an unofficial anthem for Svalbard.
- With this score, they won the Amanda Award for best score and the Film Critics' Award.
- The duo continued to work closely with director Ola Solum, for which they made the score for nearly all his later works.
- Åserud created, along with Bøhren, the official anthem for the 1994 Winter Olympics.
- He has won the 1999 Spellemannsprisen for the record Jul i Blåfjell.
