Grieg Academy has in recent years increasingly taken a public stance implying that it is ""the"" Grieg Academy, yet for those who know this history it remains undeniably clear that "the Grieg Academy" actually continues to be spread across two institutions, University of Bergen and Bergen University College, with some forms of collaboration. In recent years, the folk music school Ole Bull Academy in nearby Voss (named after renowned violin virtuoso Ole Bull), has also been to some extent brought under the Grieg Academy umbrella. The name Grieg may be traced to Norway's most famous composer Edvard Grieg, a native son of
Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer) Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer) Edvard Hagerup Bull (10 June 1922 – 15 March 2012) was a Norwegian composer. He was born in Bergen. He grew up in Jar outside Oslo in a musical and politically active family, the son of Sverre Hagerup Bull and his wife Aldis Jebsen. His paternal grandfather was politician and judge Edvard Hagerup Bull. In September 1955 he married Anna Kvarme. Bull studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won the 1952 . He was awarded the musical composition prize from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de