Yngve Slettholm

Yngve Slettholm (born 28 December 1955) is a Norwegian cultural executive, politician for the Christian Democratic Party and Salvationist.

From 1986 to 1988, in the Fulbright Program, he studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo, with Morton Feldman as his teacher in composition.

In the period 1982–1986, he was the President of the national organisation Ny Musikk (the Norwegian section of the International Society for Contemporary Music) until he traveled to the United States to continue his training.

[2] As well as his compositions in contemporary music, Slettholm has composed for choirs and brass bands in the Salvation Army.

[3] Slettholm's political career, where he represented the Christian Democratic Party, reached its high point when he was State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs under Valgerd Svarstad Haugland from 2001–2005.