Solveig Sørbø

Solveig Sørbø (born 1986) is a Norwegian composer, music producer, performing artist and former librarian and radio journalist. Music Solveig Sørbø scored the music for the 2021 documentary film Hans pluss Liv by Mari Bakke Riise. Her piece Love Theme is inspired by the story and has been released in several versions including ones featuring Catharina Chen and Ayumi Tanaka. In january 2024 The Norwegian Radio Orchestra performed the piece orchestrated by Henrik Skram during Meloditimen in NRK’s Grand Studio. Sørbø also writes chamber music and opera. Fragments from her opera Heroin Chic which she wrote with author and librettist Maria Kjos Fonn was performed in the Fartein Valen hall of Stavanger konserthus in 2022, and in 2024 as part of the four hundredth anniversary of the . The full-length world premiere took place as an opera in concert in Iași on 25 February 2025 to much critical acclaim with Susanna Wolff and Sofia Neacșu in the main roles as the adult and child “Elise” respectively. Sørbø has also released popular music with her band Pysj. Academic work As a librarian at University of Oslo Library Sørbø coinitiated the research concept MusicLab together with professor of mu