Borghild Holmsen

Borghild Holmsen (22 October 1865 – 4 December 1938) was a Norwegian pianist, music critic and composer.

Borghild Holmsen was born in Kråkstad (now Ski), Akershus, Norway.

She studied piano with Agathe Backer-Grøndahl and Otto Winter-Hjelm, and continued her studies with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig and Albert Becker in Berlin.

She made her debut in 1890 in Christiania,[1] afterward touring as a concert pianist in Europe and the United States.

After ending her concert career, she became a teacher at the Bergen Music Conservatory, where Harald Sæverud was one of her pupils.