Pan flute and keyboard
HOMEPAGE: https://www.panflute-player.com
About Roar Engelberg:
He started to play the pan flute at around the age of twelve, after hearing Gheorghe Zamfir playing a Romanian folk tune on the Norwegian radio.
He was deeply moved by the tune ( Cintecul lui Iancu Jianu ) that was very different from everything he had heard before. He just loved it and decided that he had to play this instrument.
He got hold of a very simple pan flute and started to learn on his own, listening to records, and folk music programs on Romanian radio.
He was very lucky when the Romanian folk music band of Benone Damian and the pan flute player Nicolae Pirvu, came on a tour to Norway two years later, giving concerts also in Roars neighborhood.
Roar studied pan flute with Nicolae Pirvu in the Netherlands at the «Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten» in the years 1986-1989 and graduated with the highest degree, having among others, Damian Luca in the jury at his final graduation concert.
In 1984 he was awarded with the Norwegian «Grammy» for the first time.
His first solo album came on the market in 1985 containing a blend of different musical styles.
In 1987 he recorded his first album with classical music only, and has until this moment made eighteen
solo albums containing different musical styles.
He has been touring in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, USA, Japan, India, Germany, Austria and other countries.
He has been awarded with many prices in Norway, and in 2007 he was awarded by the Romanian President with «Meritul cultural in grad de Cavaler.»
In 2023 I participated as soloist in the concert for pan flute by Henning Sommerro, on the album "BORDERS" THIS ALBUM BECAME NOMINEE FOR GRAMMY 2025.
Currently, he is working on a new album with keltic tunes. That will be album number 20.