Lars Anders Tomter is Professor at the Oslo Academy of Music. Founder and artistic co-director of the Risør Chamber Music Festival for 25 years, artistic director of Fjord Classics in Sandefjord since 2017. Plays a viola by Gasparo da Salo from 1590. He studied the violin and viola at the Oslo Conservatory and at the Norwegian State Academy under Professor Leif Jørgensen. Continued his studies with Prof. Max Rostal and Sandor Vegh.

Performances at the Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Musikverein and Wigmore Hall to the major concert stages in Scandinavia, Madrid, Budapest,Bonn, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart, Paris, Rome, London, New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. Lars Anders Tomter has performed at festivals such as the Beethovenfest Bonn, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Lockenhaus, Kissinger Sommer, Salzburg Festival, Verbier Festival, SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Moritzburg Schubertiade Chamber Music Festival.