Sverre Bruland

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Sverre Tonning Olsen Bruland (2 February 1923 – 24 September 2013) was a Norwegian trumpet player and conductor from Stavanger. He studied with Per Steenberg, Karl Andersen, Odd Grüner-Hegge, Igor Markevitch, and Paul van Kempen, and trained at the Juilliard School in New York (1949–1950) and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He played trumpet with the Second Division Ensemble in Oslo (1945–1946) and with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (1946–1966). He made his conducting debut with the Oslo Philharmonic in 1954. In 1966 he became kapellmeister of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. From 1976 to 1988 he was the chief conductor of the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra. Bruland won first prize in an international conducting competition in Liverpool in 1958 and the conducting prize at Tanglewood in 1959. He conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in two public appearances with Norwegian music on the program. He died on 24 September 2013 after a short illness.