Kontrabass

Dan Styffe, Swedish born double-bassist now living in Oslo, Norway.

After starting on the electric bass playing rock and jazz, Styffe started his classical studies with Göran Nyberg in Sweden and then went on to Prof. Knut Guettler in Oslo and Prof. Gary Karr in USA.

1982 he started as Principal Double Bassist in the Norwegian Opera Orchestra. He is now member of  the Norwegian Chamber Orch. And Co-Principal in Oslo Philharmonic.

He was member of the chamber group Borealis.

Styffe teaches at the Norwegian Academy of Music and at Barratt Dues Institute of Music.

Styffe has recorded (along many chamber-music and orchestra CDs) two solo CDs which has won very good international acclaim (“Double Bass Dan Styffe” and “Revisited Dan Styffe”. Both on SIMAX Classics)..

A third CD is just recorded (including among others Pärt: Schäfer, Ramsier, Hauta-aho, Lavista ) and new CDs are planned on the Norwegian label SIMAX Classics.

Just recently an English CD with Styffe as one of two double bass soloists was released on the label Campion.

Styffe has commissioned and world-premiered numerous contemporary pieces.

At the moment Norwegian composer Ruben Sverre Gjertsen and Swedish Fredrik Högberg is composing new pieces.

Styffe often participates on music festivals both in Norway and internationally   as a soloist and as chamber musician.