Sara Aimée Smiseth was born in Oslo, Norway, and pursued her education at the Norwegian Academy of Music and The Royal Conservatory of Brussels. After completing her master’s degree in music performance with professor Einar Steen-Nøkleberg in 2014, she has built an impressive career as a freelance pianist.
Smiseth has distinguished herself with her unique combination of virtuoso piano performance and captivating storytelling. In her narrative concerts, performed both in Norway and abroad, she has presented the life and works of composers such as Edvard Grieg, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Joseph Haydn, Claude Debussy and Clara Schumann.
Concerts abroad
In 2022, Smiseth was a pianist in residence at the Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen in Bergen, Norway, and she has toured Scandinavia several times, as well as the United States and Canada. In 2022 she released her first solo recording, a critically acclaimed collection of music by Norwegian pianist and composer
Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907). Last year, she was a soloist in Edvard Grieg’s Piano concerto in a minor in Tartu, Estonia, the European Capital of Culture 2024.
Over the past year Smiseth has been invited to perform solo recitals and storytelling concerts at a number of festivals and concert venues both at home and abroad. Since 2023 she has performed the musical story of nine generations of her own foremothers to thousands of people all over Norway, a concert she is also planning to go on tour with abroad in the future.
