In English

Gabriel Fliflet is a Norwegian musician and composer. Accordion is his main instrument. He grew up in a fertile musical environment, sung to in Swedish by his Finnish mother and, as often as not, in German or Hungarian by his polyglot Norwegian father. Not surprising, then, that he has made a career of frolicking in various folk traditions, Norwegian and foreign.

Musician:

Fliflet’s various musical projects show the range of his curiosity. For over thirty years he explored Norwegian old-time dance music with the group Rimfakse. He has toured with Shetland musicians, including the legendary Willie Hunter and Willie Johnson. He has worked with musicians from Serbia, Lapland, Italy and Finland, explored Yiddish and Gypsy traditions - not to mention different musical projects with many of Norway´s most outstanding traditional folk and jazz musicians.

Most well-known is his partnership with drummer Ole Hamre in the enigmatic duo Fliflet/Hamre. They have created a style all their own – they call it Bergen music from the world – and have worked with artists from a wide spectrum of music.

In Trio Alde, Gabriel plays and sings music based on traditional music from Western Norway, together with folk singer Berit Opheim and fiddler Jorun Marie Kvernberg.

In the quartet Gabriels Novgorod, he explores ethnic popular music from Finland, Sweden and other countries around The Baltic Sea.

Songs and fiddle tunes from the coasts of The North Sea is the theme of the trio Henderson, Fliflet & Burgess. Kevin Henderson is a world class, traditional fiddler from Shetland, Richard Burgess a superb English folk singer and musician.

Since 1999 he has been musical host and organiser of Norway’s foremost folk club, Columbi Egg in Bergen.

Composer:

Gabriel Fliflet has made several commissioned works. Among those are: Edvards lykkelige dag (ordered by Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen) and Åresong (Bergen International Festival) with new texts by the great Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. In Valseria, he praised the Waltz and the 3/4 beat, and in Rose, Gabriel made new melodies to texts by Robert Burns, translated into Norwegian by Johannes Gjerdåker. In Gabriel Fliflet´s music, there are resonances from both Norwegian and other European musical traditions. 

CONTACT:
gabriel.fliflet (“at”) gmail.com tel. + 47 4731 7451