Sara Aimée Smiseth was born in Oslo, Norway, and pursued her education at the Norwegian Academy of Music and The Royal Conservatory of Brussels. After completing her master’s degree in music performance with professor Einar Steen-Nøkleberg in 2014, she has built an impressive career as a freelance pianist.
Smiseth has distinguished herself with her unique combination of virtuoso piano performance and captivating storytelling. In her narrative concerts, performed both in Norway and abroad, she has presented the life and works of composers such as Edvard Grieg, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Joseph Haydn, Claude Debussy and Clara Schumann.
Concerts abroad
In 2022, Smiseth was a pianist in residence at the Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen in Bergen, Norway, and she has toured Scandinavia several times, as well as the United States and Canada. Last year she released her first solo recording, a critically acclaimed collection of music by Norwegian pianist and composer
Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907).
Over the past year Smiseth has done solo recitals at several festivals and concert venues, and she has been invited by the Saxon Mozart Society to perform music by Grøndahl and Grieg in Villa Esche (Chemnitz) and Mendelssohn-Haus (Leipzig). She has sold out a number of concert venues telling the musical story of nine generations of her own foremothers, a concert she also will be touring with in the American Midwest in May 2025.
In August this year she has been invited
to be a soloist in Edvard Grieg’s
A minor piano concerto in the
European Cultural Capital 2024 of
Tartu, Estonia.
Sara Aimée Smiseth 