Vidar Johansen (born 2 June 1953 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor, soprano, baritone and alto saxophones, flute, bass clarinet), music arranger and composer.

[2] A versatile, skilled and quality creative musician; In recent years he has, among other things contributed as energetic soloist on bass clarinet on plates with Søyr, Ab und Zu and Bugge Wesseltoft (1995–1996).

Finally he released an album Lopsided (1997) under his own name, Vidar Johansen Trio record live at Oslo Jazzhus in 1995.

Later he participated in the Tine Asmundsen Lonely Woman albums Alive (2003), Demons' Diversions (2005), Radegund (2008) and Lovely Luna (2012), the album Bjørn Johansen in Memoriam (2003), Jacob Young's Evening falls (2004) and Sideways (2006), Erik Wesseltoft Con Amor (2004), Life Is A Beautiful Monster with Crimetime Orchestra (2004), Sonny Simmons The traveler (2004) and the album Madison where he collaborates with Tine Asmundsen, Richard Davis and Robert Shy (2007).

In recent years (2015) he has been living on a mountain farm in Lom, which does not prevent him from the participations on the Norwegian jazz scenes.