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The soldiers tale by Stravinskijs, at Oslo Chamber music festival

From the first rehearsal in my studio

Historien om en soldat

18.08.2019 Universitetets Aula

"Historien om en soldat" var med på det aller første festivalprogrammet i 1989.
Arve Tellefsen, Ole Edvard Antonsen og Svein Haugen gjenopptar sine roller fra den gang og
har med seg et stjernelag av musikere, skuespillere og en danser.

For som Stravinskij selv sa; Verket skal leses, spilles og danses ("lue, jouée et dansée").

Medvirkende:
Liv Ullmann, djevel
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, soldat
Mattis Herman Nyquist, forteller
Magnus Emaka Einang, dans

Arve Tellefsen, fiolin
Svein Haugen, kontrabass
Hans Christian Bræin, klarinett
Embrik Snerte, fagott
Ole Edvard Antonsen, kornett
Sverre Riise, trombone
Kjell Tore Innervik, slagverk

Regi: Einar Bjørge
Dirigent: Halldis Rønning

 

 

the drum kit

The drum kit!

Lærdalsmartnaden, June 2019

Høgemo and Innervik performing local tunes on Hardingfiddle and slåttetromme, together with Tom Karlsrud and Liv Ulvik, among others in Lærdal.

Concert on stage and "buskspel" in town.

Recording sessions Sunday/Mondag with tunes from the region.

Oslo Sinfonietta. Kverndokk opera

kværndokk

Oslo Sinfonietta @ Oslo International Church Music Festival

03/14/2019

NORWAY PREMIERE

CHURCH OPERA: UPON THIS HANDFUL OF EARTH

GISLE KVERNDOKK, COMPOSER AND LIBRETTIST

AKSEL-OTTO BULL, LIBRETTIST AND DIRECTOR

GJERMUND ANDRESEN, SCENOGRAPHER

 

OSLO CATHEDRAL BOYS' CHOIR, DAVID MAIWALD (CONDUCTOR)

TREFOLDIGHET GIRLS' CHOIR, EDLE STRAY-PEDERSEN (CONDUCTOR)

OSLO CATHEDRAL CHOIR

OSLO SINFONIETTA

VIVIANNE SYDNES, CONDUCTOR


Trefoldighets Church
20 March, at 20.00

An opera about climate change and natural disasters

Experience a spectacular Norway premiere! The church opera Upon This Handful of Earth deals with one of today's absolute greatest challenges: climate change and natural disasters. The opera tells stories of human lives that have been impacted by environmental disasters. Nearly 100 musicians contribute during the Norwegian premiere and fill the church with sound and visual impressions in a full-scale opera production.

 

The 2019 Church music festival's major initiative, Upon This Handful of Earth, is composed by Gisle Kverndokk. The libretto is written by Aksel-Otto Bull and Kverndokk, inspired by texts by the Catholic priest, philosopher and naturalist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The work also makes use of a 3500-year-old Veda text in Sanskrit, texts from American indigenous peoples and environment-related newspaper articles concerning the Chernobyl accident, Shell's oil disaster in Nigeria and the fracking industry. The opera is written for boys' and girls' choir, mixed choir, chamber orchestra and six vocal soloists, with a central role performed by the boy soprano Philip Weiss-Hagen, all under the direction of Vivianne Sydnes.

Nominert til Spellemann 2018, Samtid

Kjell Tore Innervik_Nominert til Spellemann 2018_Samtid

Hurra og takk!

Veldig hyggelig å bli nominert for innspillingen av Psappha og The King of Denmark på Utopias!

Takk til Morten Lindberg og 2L for strålende samarbeid med å få de kunstneriske ideene inn i dette formatet og for å få utforske de mulighetene som det representerer! 

Jeg vil også takke mine gode kolleger Ivar Frounberg, Ståle Stenslie og Maziar Raein, som har jobbet tett med meg i prosessen med å utforske musikken. De lange diskusjonene, eksperimentene, drøftingene om de små og store tingene. Og de mange rundene med stadig endringer...

Vi brukte 3 år på å jobbe inn og omkring i disse stykkene. Rundt 1000 arbeidstimer har jeg brukt på hvert stykke i løpet av perioden. Det er den tiden det tar å gjøre musikk fra partitur, til mitt eget. 

Platen er en del av FoU-arbeidet på Norges musikkhøgskole gjennom Nordheim senteret, som nå ledes av Darla Crispin. Takk også til Birgitte Pollen for fantastisk forståelse og hjelp. Prosjektet er støttet av NMH og Prosjektprogrammet for Kunstnerisk Utviklingsarbeid.

For de som vil høre/se flere versjoner av verkene er det bare å gå inn på Reseach Catalogue 

Lindberg lyd: Utopias

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Oslo Sinfonietta in Stuttgart

Oslo Sinfonietta: Schubert Lounge
ECLAT 2019

Eivind Buene: Schubert Lounge Ferburay 9 (2018)

Tora Augestad (Mezzosopran), Halvor Festervoll Melien (Bariton), Christian Eggen (Klavier), Eivind Buene (Gesang & Fender Rhodes), Oslo Sinfonietta, Leitung Christian Eggen

Franz Schubert, sagt Eivind Buene, war ein „Singer/Songwriter“. Eine Schubertiade als Vorbild, stellte sich der Komponist – selbst mit Popmusik aufgewachsen – Schubert in der Singer/Songwriter-Pose der 70er Jahre vor...

Franz Schubert, sagt Eivind Buene, war ein „Singer/Songwriter“. Eine Schubertiade als Vorbild, stellte sich der Komponist – selbst mit Popmusik aufgewachsen – Schubert in der Singer/Songwriter-Pose der 70er Jahre vor: mit einem Fender Rhodes und der Stimme eines Popsängers. So inszenierte er seine ersten Schubert Lounges für seine Freunde in Oslo. Angeregt von einem dieser Hauskonzerte schlug der Bariton Halvor Mellen Buene vor, dass beide einmal als Sänger zusammenarbeiten könnten. Eivind Buene interessiert diese Reibung unterschiedlicher Ästhetiken und unterschiedlicher Denksysteme. In der weiterentwickelten Schubert Lounge treffen gleich drei verschiedene Musikrichtungen aufeinander: Buenes eigene rekontextualisierte Version von Schubert-Liedern, Halvor Mellens Interpretation von Buenes für seine Stimme komponierte Musik, basierend auf Fragmenten aus Schuberts Tagebuch, und Tora Augestads sehr persönliche Interpretation von Schubert-Liedern. Die Musiker der Oslo Sinfonietta bewegen sich zwischen den Welten der Singer/Songwriter und der zeitgenössischen Musik. Seit seinem Komponisten-Debüt vor 20 Jahren ist das Ensemble ein wichtiger Interpret von Eivind Buenes Musik. Nun werden sie das erste Mal gemeinsam auftreten.

 

Radical Interpretations

The Radical Interpretation prosject are documented at Research Catalogue. I now have a selection of the main artistic output published on research catalogue

Have a look at several creative takes at the King of Denmark by Feldmann and Psappha by Xenakis.

Psappha at Sagene, Oslo

The Musician in the Community, 2019

For the 7th year we bring 20+ MA students from NMH to the wonderfull community of Hammerfest for a week of inspiration on the parthway to becomming a professional musician. Concerts in all possible formats and venues, cooperation in all possible ways from professionals to amateurs and kids across disiplines. A week to feel as a musician in the 2nd semester of the MA in musical performance. Inspire the locals and learn something about what musician you are want and can to develop into. I miniature world of the possible musical activities. What you can imagine and more... Kulturtrøkk

 

Snare drum day at NMH

Snare drummers at NMH Saturday 26th of January

January 26th 2019 at NMH, 27 snaredrummers met for a day of inspiration. Innervik together with Bjørn Løken organized the day and held masterclasses as well as technical warm-up sessions. All together we rehearsed and performed a piece by Kjell Samkopf: 4 like.

The day concluded with the BA students performing for the guests. Prim by Askell Mason, KIM by Askell Mason, Marsj Cadenze , Delculse etyde, and Chick as well as Høgemo and Innervik doing 4 slåtter.