MONDAY 19 APRIL 2010

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Vibrations - Moving, breathing and awareness

09.00 - 09.45h

Start the day with some gentle exercises and get ready for the exciting activities and events ahead. We welcome competitors, jury members, students and others to come along and join in. 

Free entrance

Venue: Norwegian Academy of Music
Bevegelsesrommet

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Menuhin Competition - Junior Section 1st Round, part 1

10.00-17.00h

  

Join the all star jury in their search for the very best violin virtuosos. Be live in the concert hall and witness some stunning performances. Enjoy the incredibly varied and exciting repertoire designed to test the skills of each player and be the first to know the winners.

12 of the 20 Junior competitors will play to jury and audiences for their place in the Junior Finals. Each competitor performs a 25 minute programme with their choice of the following works:

One of the following sonata movements:
J.S. BACH accompanied sonatas No. 3 BMV 1016, movements 1+2
J.S. BACH accompanied sonatas No. 3 BMV 1016, movements 3+4
J.S. BACH accompanied sonatas No. 4 BMV 1017, movements 1+2
J.S. BACH accompanied sonatas No. 4 BMV 1017, movements 3+4

The first movement of one of the following:
E. GRIEG Sonata in F major (first movement only)
E. GRIEG Sonata in G major (first movement only)

OLE BULL Rondo - from Cantabile doloroso and Rondo giocoso

A two minute freestyle improvisation of a 4-8 bar phrase in a classical/romantic style

Venue:
Lindemansalen, Norwegian Academy of Music

Tickets: NOK 50 - Buy Now!
Students & teachers NMH/BDM: Free entry

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Exhibition - Ole Bull Guarneri del Gesù Project

10.00 - 19.00h

Internationally renowned violin maker, restorer and dealer Christophe Landon is organising this exciting project around Ole Bull's famous Guarneri del Gesù violin. Violinmakers from around the world are invited to make a copy of the ‘Ole Bull’ 1744 Guarneri del Gesù violin. The copies may not only be looked at - theye are there to be played by competitors, students and visiting violinists.

Also on show will be a selection of Hardanger fiddles from the collection of Kjell Chr. Midtgaard, among them an instrument by Erik Johnsen Helland from 1862. All instruments equally available for playing.

Venue: Norwegian Academy of Music

Free entry

Collaboration Partner:
Christophe Landon Rare Violins
Kjell Chr Midtgaard

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Lunchtime Series "Music Connects" - Dialogue & Soup

12.30 – 13.30h - The importance of music and awareness

The relationship between art experience and realisation has been of importance throughout history. What lies beneath this interest in connecting art and awareness? And what can we gain by experiencing art?

Music related dialogue combined with an opportunity to enjoy our soup of the day! Open for music lovers, musicians, music students and music teachers.

The dialogue will be held in Norwegian.

Venue:
Chateau Neuf

Free entry

Collaboration Partners:
Norwegian Academy of Music
Barratt Due Music Institute
Supported by: The Freedom of Expression Foundation (Fritt Ord)

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”Interpretation and punishment” - Seminar

17.00-19.00h

Seminar on the musician's scope for interpretation. What would Beethoven's ninth symphony sound like if it was interpreted just as freely as Vinge's The Wild Duck production at the Bergen International Festival in 2009? What risks does a performer encounter as he or she crosses artistic boundaries? Does the music scene impose guidelines and sanctions that reward safety and punish disobedience?

The seminar will be held in Norwegian.

Venue: Nasjonalbiblioteket (Solli Plass)

Free entrance

Collaborating Partner:
Music Information Center Norway

Supported by: The Freedom of Expression Foundation (Fritt Ord)

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Oslo City Hall Concert

18.00h

The City Hall Concert is an annual tradition in Oslo. The "Aspirant orkesteret" is a junior orchestra consisting of string students aged 6- 9. The participants come from all of the orchestras who are collaborating with the Oslo School of Fine Arts. "Gateorkesteret" are students from the age of 10.

To include:
Aspirantorkesteret  - conductor Anne-Berit Halvorsen
Gateorkesteret - conductor Johan Nicolai Mohn
Special guest: Lerke kvartetten

Venue:
Oslo City Hall

Free entry

Collaboration Partners:
Oslo Culture and Music School (Oslokulturskole)
Oslo City Hall (Oslo rådhus)

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"Strings connected"

19.30h

This concert offers a wonderful mix of Romantic music by Bruch and Elgar alongside traditional music from Norway – including Grieg’s take on two folk melodies. String-playing colleagues from the Norwegian Academy of Music and Barratt Due Music Institute present a concert that is guaranteed to be one of the memorable highlights of the Menuhin Competition 2010.

To include:
Students and teachers from the Norwegian Academy of Music and Barratt Due Music Institute
Presenter: Eirik Birkeland, Head of the Norwegian Academy of Music

1.        Chamber Allegria
Geir Inge Lotsberg, director

EDVARD GRIEG ”Kulokk” and ”Stabbelåten”
EDWARD ELGAR Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20

2.       MAX BRUCH Octet for Strings

Kolbjørn Holthe, violin
Per Sæmund Bjørkum, violin
Terje Moe Hansen, violin
Are Sandbakken, viola
Morten Carlsen, violin
Aage Kvalbein, cello
Dan Styffe, double base
Geir Inge Lotsberg, violin

3.       Traditional Norwegian Folk music works:

Fanitullen, trad. after Odd Bakkerud
Ingrid Heieren, Hardanger Fiddle

GABRIEL REED Fjell-ljom (trad. after Alfred Maurstad)
Ingrid Heieren, Hardanger Fiddle
Maja Gravemoen Toresen, Hardanger Fiddle
Haldis Hegstad, Hardanger Fiddle         

Myllargutens bruremarsj (trad. after Eivind Groven)
Håkon Høgemo, director
Maja Gravemoen Toresen
Haldis Hegstad
Bjørn Kåre Odde
Ingrid Heieren
Jo Einar Jansen
Ingvild Blæsterdalen – Hardanger Fiddles

Tickets: NOK 170  Buy Now!
OAPs NOK 130, Students and children NOK 50

Venue:
Lindemansalen, Norwegian Academy of Music

Collaboration Partners:
Norwegian Academy of Music
Barratt Due Music Institute

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