Eirik Berge

Eirik Berge born 29 March 1976 is a Norwegian musician.

Eirik Berge is one of Norway's most sought after keyboardplayers and arrangers. As a keyboard player and music director his client list includes artists such as Maria Arredondo, Ronan Keating, Kurt Nilsen, Venke Knutson, Carola, A1 and Christian Ingebrigtsen.

He is a much wanted string and orchestra arranger in Scandinavia and he has contributed on several Scandinavian albums and concerts. His orchestral arrangements have been performed and recorded by orchestras like Trondheimsolistene, Czech National Symphony Orchestra and Norwegian Session Orchestra. He arranged seven songs on the Maria Arredondo album "Min Jul" (My Christmas) in company with Jon Lord (Deep Purple) and Kjetil Bjerkestrand (Sissel Kyrkjebø). The album went platinum only two weeks after release.

Berge also arranged several songs on Christian Ingebrigtsen's album "Paint Christmas White", which included the Czech National Symphony Orchestra (Andrea Bocelli). His latest works include Erlend Bratland (Norway´s Got Talent) hit single "Lost" (2008), Maria Arredondos hit "Brief and Beautiful" (2007) written by Hanne Sorvaag and Harry Sommerdahl, Rein Alexander's album "Song for You" (2007) (Norwegian Session Orchestra), Christian Ingebrigtsen´s album "Truth about Lies" (2007) (CNSO), Maria Arredondo's album "For a moment" (2007), Maria Haukaas Storengs album "Hold On Be Strong" (2008)

In Sweden he has written orchestra-arrangements for artists such as Sanna Nielsen, Jessica Andersson, Daniel Lindström and Agnes Carlsson.

Eirik Berge has appeared on countless tv shows supporting different artists, and he has also played the keyboard on the musicals Fame, Saturday Night Fever and Full Monty