Per Arne Glorvigen is among the foremost of today's bandoneonplayers. His contact with this instrument began as late as at the age of 25 when he, after having finished his studies at the State Academy of Music in Oslo, moved to Paris and met the Argentinian bandoneonmaestro Juan José Mosalini. After two years of studying with Mosalini and several stays in Buenos Aires, Glorvigen began his career as a professional bandoneonist.

In addition to playing tango, Glorvigen has expanded the repertoire of the bandoneon by playing everything from baroque, klezmer and pop and, last but not least, contemporary music. The young composers Willem Jeths (Holland) and Bernd Franke (Germany) have both dedicated concertos to Glorvigen.

In 2003 he performed and recorded with the Alban Berg Quartet and together they commanded a new piece for bandoneon and string quartet by Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik. Among Glorvigen's musical partners we find artists as Giora Feidman (clarinet), Göran Söllscher (classical guitar), the ensemble Tango for 3, the Leipzig String Quartet, the Oslo and the Gothenburg Philharmonic, the Russian National Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie of Bremen and Les Solistes de l'Orchestre de Paris.

Nevertheless, his most important colleague has been the violinist Gidon Kremer with whom he has recorded four CDs and played nearly one hundred concerts worldwide.

Per Arne Glorvigen has also worked as an entertainer and has written the comedy success "Tangotanko" where he compares his native mountain village in Norway with Buenos Aires.

Recordings for Auvidis, Nonesuch, Teldec, EMI Classics and Deutsche Grammophon.