Arve Moen Bergset

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Arve Moen Bergset is a folk music performer from Norway. He was born in the Telemark region of that country in 1972. He released his first CD of Norwegian folk and traditional religious music at a young age, featuring his acclaimed vocals.

Bergset is currently a member of Bukkene Bruse, a prominent Norwegian folk music group, for whom he sings and plays the violin. Parallel to his folk music career, he is a gifted classical musician, and is employed as a first violinist in the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Bergset played the solo part in the recording of the two Hardanger Fiddle Concertos by Geirr Tveitt with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in September 1999, under the direction of Ole Kristian Ruud.