Dolores Borgir

Dolores Salas Borgir, a pianist of Norwegian-Venezuelan origin, came to prominence as a prize winner in the first Norwegian Piano Competition in 1953 and proceeded to perform with the major Norwegian symphony orchestras.

She started piano studies at the age of five, at first with her grandmother, later with the renowned Norwegian pedagogues N. Dirdal and E. Westber. After graduating from the Music Conservatory in Oslo and receiving extraordinary acclaim for her debut recital, Mrs. Borgir was awarded a scholarship to the Juillard School of Music and went there to study with Edward Steurmann. She has also studied with Albert Ferber in London and with John Perry in the US.

Borgir's concertizing has taken her from Scandinavia to South America, to Russia and throughout the United States. She has been a frequent guest Artist with the Norwegian Broadcasting Company and has performed at the Greig home, Troldhaugen, near Bergen. As a chamber musician, Mrs. Borgir has appeared with the Kronos Quartet, and given recitals with her son, Erik, cellist in the Germany-based Emanon Trio.

Borgir has served on the faculty of the University of Oslo, the University of Oregon, the San Francisco Community Music Center, and presently at the Music Center of the Northwest in Seattle. She also maintains a private studio. She is married to musicologist Tharald Borgir and is the mother of four children.

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