Concerts in Italy and France 15 - 19 September

On tour with Leif Ove Andsnes

Leif Ove Andsnes plays Brahms
24. September

At this concert, Leif Ove Andsnes inaugurates a new Steinway concert grand piano, a gift from Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen.

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With the Hardanger fiddle in one hand and the violin in the other
1. October

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15. September
Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen donates new concert grand piano to the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

– This will be Bergen's most important concert instrument, says the orchestra’s managing director, Sigurd Sverdrup Sandmo.
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14. September
We have concerts for the whole family

Do you have a child in your life? See which concerts we recommend for children and young people.
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07. September
Record number of applications to BFUng

By the time the deadline expired on Friday, we had received 131 registrations from almost every part of the country for the auditions on September 22.
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Family concert: Pictures at an Exhibition
3. October

Let the music paint!

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Musical Christmas cards
5. December

Christmas hasn’t really begun until the Grieg Hall has hosted our Musical Christmas Cards Family Concert.

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The sound of the Hardanger fiddle, with its distinctive tuning and resonating overtones, connects Norway to its deepest musical traditions while channeling centuries of joy and sorrow, patience and fortitude. A brand-new piece by our Composer-in-Residence Ørjan Matre for Ragnhild Hemsing combines the evocative sounds of the Hardanger fiddle with the refined world of the classical violin. After the new concerto and two hypnotic excerpts from Matre’s own reworking of Edvard Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Nicholas Collon conducts a symphony by Shostakovich that has been likened to ‘a film score without a film.’ In his arresting Symphony No. 11.

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