Caroline Eidsten Dahl (b. 1980) is one of Norway’s most active recorder players. Her training took place under the auspices of Frode Thorsen at the Grieg Academy in Bergen as well as with Dan Laurin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where in 2006 she completed her studies specialising in chamber music.

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Caroline Eidsten Dahl is a recorder player whose artistic work spans early music and contemporary music. She has released several critically acclaimed recordings on LAWO Classics and is active as a soloist, chamber musician and educator. Through collaborations with composers such as Herman Vogt, Knut Vaage and Lene Grenager, she works purposefully to develop new Norwegian repertoire and to renew the role of the recorder in today’s musical landscape.

 

She is a founding member of several ensembles, including Ensemble C4, Ensemble Freithoff, Woodpeckers Recorder Quartet and Bragernes Barokk, and tours regularly throughout Norway and Europe. An important focus of her work is music education for children and young audiences, with approximately 30 school and family concerts each year.

 

Eidsten Dahl combines high artistic quality with innovation, collaboration and a strong commitment to communication, and is a key contributor to the ongoing development of Norwegian recorder music.