OSLO GRIEG FESTIVAL - programme 2014

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Saturday 3 May at 14:00 National Gallery	OPENING CONCERT Nina Gravrok, soprano Yngve Søberg, bass-baritone Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, piano Works by Grieg, Alnæs, Schubert, Mahler and R. Strauss. (programme) Tickets NOK 200 (children/youth/students/members NOK 100) at the entrance from one hour before the concert or at Billettservice.
Sunday 4 May at 14:00 National Gallery	USEFUL AND BEAUTIFUL! THE DISCOVERY OF NORWEGIAN NATURE IN PAINTING AND MUSIC Tour in the exhibition ”Images of an Era. Norway 1814”. by Frithjof Bringager. The soprano Helene Wold and the guitarist Vegard Lund perform music from around 1814. (programme) Free entrance.
Sunday 4 May at 15:00 National Gallery	FROM GRIEF TO VIABILITY Jens Harald Bratlie, piano Works by Grieg and Brahms. (programme) Tickets NOK 200 (children/youth/students/members NOK 100) at the entrance from one hour before the concert or at Billettservice.
Tuesday 6 May at 19:00 Engebret Café	GRIEG AND BEYER The Grieg specialist Bjørn Øgaard talks about the friends Edvard Grieg and Frants Beyer. Jon Harthug, tenor Unni Løvlid, folk-singer Joachim Kwetzinsky, piano Music by Grieg and Beyer. Dinner "in the spirit of Grieg" from about 20:00. (programme) Tickets NOK 100 at the entrance from one hour before the concert or at Billettservice. Dinner of three dishes NOK 485 may be prebooked at Engebret Café, e-mail post@engebret-cafe.no, phone 22 82 25 25.
Thursday 8 May at 17:00 National Gallery	COMPOSER PORTRAIT: CECILIE ORE The soprano Eir Inderhaug gives the world premiere of the commission Who do you think you are? Nordic Voices performs the choral works Schwirren and Toil & Trouble (world premiere) Journalist Ida Habbestad makes an interview with the composer Works by Cecilie Ore. (programme) Tickets NOK 200 (children/youth/students/members NOK 100) at the entrance from one hour before the concert or at Billettservice.
Friday 9 May at 19:00 Oslo University Hall	NATION-BUILDING FOR MALE CHOIR Norwegian Student Choral Society, conductor Carl Høgset Harald Herresthal, introductions Works by Grieg, Halvorsen, Nordraak etc. (programme) Tickets NOK 200 (children/youth/students free, members NOK 100) at the entrance from one hour before the concert or at Billettservice.
Saturday 10 May at 12:00 Oslo Cathedral	GRIEG IN THE OSLO CATHEDRAL Geir Inge Lotsberg, violin Kåre Nordstoga, organ Works by Grieg, Svendsen, Olsson and Egge. (programme) Tickets NOK 100 at the entrance from one hour before the concert or at Billettservice.
Saturday 10 May at 13:00 Music Pavilion	CELEBRATING THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NORWEGIAN CONSTITUTION Band of the Oslo Brigade, conductor Jan Eriksen Works by Grieg's contemporaries. (programme) Free entrance.
Saturday 10 May at 14:30 National Theatre	AROUND THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF JOHAN HALVORSEN Barratt Due's Junior Ensemble Henning Kraggerud, violin Håvard Gimse, piano Harald Herresthal, introductions Works by Halvorsen and Grieg. (programme) Tickets NOK 200 (children/youth/students/members NOK 100) at the ticket office of the National Theatre or at the theatre's website.
Sunday 11 May at 14:00 National Gallery	A YOUNG NATION FINDS ITS CULTURAL IDENTITY Tour in the exhibition ”Images of an Era. Norway 1814”. by Frithjof Bringager. The soprano Helene Wold and the guitarist Vegard Lund perform music from around 1814. (programme) Free entrance.
Sunday 11 May at 15:00 National Gallery	NORWEGIAN SONGS FROM 1814 TO 2014 Helene Wold, soprano Eir Inderhaug, soprano Singers from Barratt Due, Norwegian Academy of Music and Opera School Vegard Lund, guitar Lina Braaten, piano (programme) Tickets NOK 200 (children/youth/students/members NOK 100) at the entrance from one hour before the concert or at Billettservice.
Sunday 11 May at 19:30 Oslo Cathedral	FINAL OF THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL EDVARD GRIEG COMPETITION FOR COMPOSERS Marcus André Berg, Ole Andreas Fevang and Kåre Nordstoga, organ. Oslo Cathedral Choir, conductor Terje Kvam Frank Havrøy, baritone The winning works for solo organ ("Variations on a Theme by Grieg"). Grieg's Four Psalms for choir Op. 74. (programme) Tickets NOK 200 (children/youth/students/members NOK 100) at the entrance from one hour before the concert or at Billettservice.