Norway native, Espen Wensaas is a powerful creative force in the burgeoning Nordic music scene. Considered to be one of Scandinavia´s leading performers on Nordic folk music on guitar, bouzouki and cittern. Well renowned as a virtuosic musician that inhabits the knowledge of the old traditions as well as the musical tools needed to push the genre into new realms. Espen is in the foreground of the new Nordic folk performers of Scandinavia.

While being the first folk performance alumni on guitar in the master’s program at the Norwegian Academy of Music, he also have a degree with top scores in jazz and improvisation from the same academy.

During his career as a musician, Espen has worked extensively with musicians from other parts of the world, combining musical styles and genres from different cultures into an eclectic and unique sound that has become his own. 

Not limited by strings only, Espen Wensaas is considered as a true multi instrumentalist and performs on different musical instruments at a very high level. More info about instruments here.