# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/egil-kapstad
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:56.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/egil-kapstad"
name: "Egil Kapstad"
slug: "egil-kapstad"
description: "Egil Kapstad was a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and arranger. He wrote the music for more than 50 theatre productions, and composed for film and television drama. Kapstad composed classical works for orchestra, choir, string quartet, and smaller ensembles, and was a chief executive of the association Ny Musikk. He worked as a host in television for NRK. Egil Kapstad's Trio worked as a small orchestra in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix of 1965."
tagline: "Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and arranger (1940–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Egil_Kapstad.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-08-06"
deathDate: "2017-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.69
  momentum:             2.826086956521739
  historical:           6.602124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0961176/"
    handle:    "nm0961176"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.egilkapstad.no"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/700681"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "اجيل كاپستاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egil_Kapstad"
    title: "Egil Kapstad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egil_Kapstad"
    title: "Egil Kapstad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egil_Kapstad"
    title: "Egil Kapstad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egil_Kapstad"
    title: "Egil Kapstad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/53f0c423-3977-42c5-afc5-7e56f43ab71d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1297949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2043936"
    title: "Egil Kapstad"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump