Rune Arnesen

Musician- Drums

Works: Aurora/2001: Dance of the Auroras- Fire in the Sky (The Sun/Vrtual Sun, Solar Wind towards Magnetosphere; Magnetic Storm Seen from Above; View from the Earth) (2001-2003)

Rune Arnesen (drums/percussion) started playing drums at the age of eight in a marching band in Norway.  At the age of 19 he entered the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, MA., where he studied for two and a half years. Back in Oslo he started working as a session musician.  Since then he has participated on more than a hundred albums with mostly Norwegian artists and bands and touring with several, including Randy Crawford, Sidsel Endresen, Rick Danco, Øystein Sevåg, Sissel Kyrkjeboe, Bendik Hofseth and Bugge Wesseltoft.  For the last five years Arnesen’s main project has been recording and touring around the world with ECM artist Nils Petter Molvaer.