Dan René Dahl

DAN RENÉ DAHL (b. 1967) started learning organ music from the age of 15. He studied under the supervision of Søren Gangfløt in the period 1982–89 and continued his education majoring in Church Music at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 1989 to 1993. His organ teachers were Bjørn Boysen, Halgeir Schiager, Kåre Nordstoga and Terje Winge. He graduated in 1995 where-after he took a semester in Paris with organists Michel Chapuis and Olivier Latry.
  Since June 1996, Dahl has been employed as principal organist at Fredrikstad Cathedral. He has performed numerous concerts as an organist both in Norway and abroad, including the Berlin Cathedral and St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in Berlin, and in St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
  He has performed on CD recordings with the Oslo Philharmonic Chamber Choir (Hovland motets, 1994), Oslo Cathedral Boys’ Choir (2005), the Vocalis Women’s Choir (2007) and the Borg Vocal Ensemble (2009). He has premiered several works by Frank Nordensten, among others Concerto No. 2, which was dedicated to Dahl, as well as Concerto No. 3.
  On the piano he has been most active as an accompanist, including Chorus Master in the Oslo Philharmonic, the Norwegian Opera, and for Opera Østfold, though he has also performed as a soloist in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. He has also served as a pianist in Big Band settings. He has contributed as a pianist on the CDs Rubato (2003) and Con Amore (2008) both with violinist Per Viggo Nilsen and Den fyrste song (2010) with the Cathedral Children and Youth Choir (currently the Cathedral Girls’ Choir).
  Between 1996 and 2007 he was organist at Torsnes Church and worked with both the children's choir and youth choir there. The latter would later develop into the all female choir Senza Rigore in 2007, a vocal ensemble Dahl is still working with.