Henning Sommerro

Henning Sommerro has had flourishing careers in classical music (mostly as a film and theater composer), pop, and folk. He is also an important educator. Sommerro has a substantial recording catalog dating back to the 1970s when he made several hit recordings with the folk group Vårsøg. In 2024, People of the Book, a set of three Sommerro compositions, was recorded by the Trondheimsolisten. Sommerro was born on May 3, 1952, in Surnadal, on Norway's west coast, near the tip of a fjord. He grew up on his family's farm and came to music relatively late, taking up piano and organ...