Biography

Petter Udland Johansen is a singer, conductor, composer and instrumentalist with a wide musical specter. He feels at home as well in the classical music as he does it popular and folk music. He has worked with great success as a singer, conductor, composer/arranger and instrumentalist with ensembles like Hirundo Maris, Pechrima, Sagene Ring and Capella Antiqua Bambergensis and with these ensembles He is giving regularly concerts throughout Europe and are making recordings with important labels like ECM records Carpe Diem Records, Ramee, CAP Records, Grappa and Muve Records. In 2009, Arianna Savall and Petter Udland Johansen founded the group Hirundo Maris, specialising in early music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, as well as their own compositions and early fusion. Their creative core is Mediterranean and Nordic music, the fruit of their extensive musical partnership. Like a migratory bird, they retrace the routes across seas and music that have linked Scandinavia with the Iberian Peninsula since time immemorial. Hirundo Maris regularly appears at numerous festivals around Europe Together with Erik Fosse and Per Martinsen he forms the trio Sagene Ring which has recorded three CDs on the Norwegian label Grappa, with their own music and texts about life on the eastern side of Oslo.