November 5-10 2009
Ragnar
Rasmussen gives master class for
Tiroler Sängerbund in Innsbruck, Austria.
October 9-10 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen acts as
chair of the Adjudicators at the
National Choir Competition organised by The Norwegian Choir Association
in Trondheim,
Norway.
Sept 25-27 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
The Tromso
University Choir
Mimas on tour
to Nordreisa and Alta, Norway.
July 25-30 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Kor72
at Musik Center Askov, Denmark.
July 24 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
The Norwegian Youth Choir in concert in
the Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway.
July 17-23 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
The Norwegian Youth Choir at the
Europa Cantat XVII in Utrecht, Netherlands.
June 6 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Oslo Bach Choir,
Con
Vocale,
Stavanger Vokalensemble,
Graabrødre kammerkor in
Iver Kleive's 'Requiem' in
Copenhagen, Denmark. Soloists
Iver Kleive (organ),
Ingebjørg Kosmo (mezzosoprano) og
Trond Halstein Moe (barytone).
May 28 - June 3 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen gives masterclass in Split,
Croatia.
May 17 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Mimas Chamber
Choir and
Tromsø Symphony Orchestra
in a National Day concert in the Town Hall, Tromso,
Norway.
May 3 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen gives masterclass i
Cork,
Irland. Organised by
Cork International Choral Festival and Irish
Association of Irish Choirs.
April 29- May
3 2009
Ragnar
Rasmussen acts as Adjudicator at The 55th
Cork International Choral Festival, Ireland.
April 12 2009:
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
soloists, choir and musicians in excerpts from
Haydn Nelson Mass during NRK's radio-
and TV-broadcasted Easter Day service from the
Tromsø Cathedral,
Tromsø, Norway.
Watch the TV-broadcast
here.
March 26-29
2009
Ragnar Rasmussen er acts as
Adjudicator at the
5th International Competition for Young Choral
Conductors in Ljubljana, Slovenia
March 6-8 2009:
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Mimas Chamber
Choir in
Ariel Ramirez's
Missa Criolla under the Latin Festival
No Siesta,
Fiesta,
Tromsø,
Norway.
February 9-13 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen gives master class at
The
Royal Conservatory of The Hague, The Netherlands.
January 28 2009
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Mimas Chamber
Choir and
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
in
the barytone Harald Bakkeby Moe's
master concert (Norwegian
Academy of Music, Oslo). Programme: Edvard Grieg's Album
for male voices (op.30), four psalms, (op. 74) and
romances. Co-conductor: Ragnar Rasmussen sr. Piano:
Ekaterina Isayevskaya. Se mer
her.
2008
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December 5-6 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
the
closing
ceremony of
Stavanger European Capital of Culture
2008. Programme:
Orlando Gough
”We turned on the light”
.
See video here.
December 6 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
in concert during the closing event Let's
celebrate is
part of the
closing
ceremony of
Stavanger European Capital of Culture 2008
at the Chamber of Commerce, Stavanger.
December
5 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
at the National Choir concert as part of the of
Stavanger European Capital of Culture 2008
in the Church of St. Petri, Stavanger.
November 21-23 2008
Ragnar
Rasmussen gives master class for Tiroler Chorverband and
conducts
Kammerchor Innsbruck in Innsbruck, Austria.
November 15, 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
J. Brahms „Ein deutsches Requiem“
in Oulo cathedral. A
co-operation between
Mimas Chamber
Choir and the music conservatories in Piteå, Sweden
and Oulo, Finland.
November 8 and 9 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Tromsø Symphony Orchestra,
Mimas Chamber
Choir,
University Choir APZ Tone Tomšič
and the soloists Anne Lise Sollied Allemano
og Carlo Allemano in
J. Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
in
the Tromsdalen church (the Arctic Sea Cathedral),
Tromso, Norway.
Click here to watch video from rehearsal.
October 25-26 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Oslo Bach Choir,
Fortius Chamber Choir, Riga and soloists in
Iver Kleive's 'Requiem',
in the
Riga Cathedral, Riga, Latvia. Organ:
Iver Kleive.
September
10.-16 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
with soloists and
Concerto
Farinelli
in concerts (Sortland
church, Svolvær church and Trondenes church, Norway)
and CD recordings.
Konserter
Programme: J. S.
Bach: Wachet auf,
ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 and Wachet auf - a contemporary comment.
July
27-August 3 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
The Norwegian Youth Choir
on tour in Russia (St. Petersburg).
July 19-26 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
gives workshop/conducts
and conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
at the 8th
World Symposium on
Choral Music
in Copenhagen - check
http://www.choraldenmark.org/.
June 26 2008
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
is this year's resident artist at
The Festival of North-Norway,
Harstad, Norway.
The ensemble
is participating with three different projects among
which are
the music- and multimedia production 'Stories from the
North' which
opened
The Northern Lights Festival
in Tromso, Norway
this January, and a project together with
Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Danish jazz
mucisian
Palle Mikkelborg.
June 22 2008
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
is this year's resident artist at
The Festival of North-Norway,
Harstad, Norway.
Ragnar
Rasmussen conducts the ensemble
in the
multimedia production 'Stories from the
North' which
opened
The Northern Lights Festival
in Tromso, Norway
this January.
May 17 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Mimas Chamber
Choir and
Tromsø Symphony Orchestra
in a National Day concert in the Town Hall, Tromso,
Norway.
May
9-13 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen teaches as
guest professor at the Academy of Music, University in
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
May 3, 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
onducts The Norwegian Youth Choir
in concert in Drøbak, Norway.
April 23, 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Oslo Bach Choir
and
Con Vocale
in
Iver Kleive's 'Requiem' in Skien
church, Norway. Solists
Iver Kleive (organ),
Ingebjørg Kosmo (mezzosoprano) og
Trond Halstein Moe (barytone).
Review (only in Norwegian)
April 21 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen gives master class at
Oulo
University of Applied Sciences,
March 16 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
in
'Stories from The North' as a part of
The Slovenian
Philharmonic's professional
choir concert series,
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
February 29-March 4 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen teaches as
guest professor at the Academy of Music, University in
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
January 22 and 25 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
in the music- and multimedia production 'Stories
from the North' at opening of the
The Northern Lights Festival Tromsø, Norway.
January 11-15 2008
Ragnar Rasmussen teaches as
guest professor at the Academy of Music, University in
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2007
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December 16, 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Tromsø Symphony Orchestra
and Mimas Chamber
Choir in
Christmas consert.
December 13, 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Tromsø Symphony Orchestra
and Mimas Chamber
Choir at
a University of Tromsø anniversary celebration.
December 8-9 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
'The Shepherds
adoration' -
a
Christmas concert in Tromsø, Norway.
Guest:
Iver Kleive on keyboards.
November 30- December 4
2007
Ragnar Rasmussen teaches as
guest professor at the Academy of Music, University in
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ragnar Rasmussen is conducting the
University Choir APZ Tone Tomšič
and the
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
in
Ljubljana, Slovenia. Choir rehearsals
Urša Lah.
Programme:
Arne Nordheim ‘Wirklicher Wald’ for soprano, cello, choir and orchestra,
Schnittke:
'Concerto Grosso No 2'
for violin, cello
and orchestra,
Lojze Lebič
'Miti in apokrifi/Myths
and apocrypha' for bass-barytone and
orchestra.
Check season program folder here.
October 27 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Oslo Bach Choir,
Fortius Chamber Choir, Riga and
Mimas Chamber
Choir and soloists in
Iver Kleive's 'Requiem'
at
the Tromso International Church Festival,
Norway. Organ:
Iver Kleive.
CD release of Kleive's Requiem with
Oslo Bach-kor,
Kammerkoret
Mimas and
University Choir APZ Tone Tomšič conducted
by Ragnar Rasmussen.
Check YouTube
here. Buy/listen to tracks from the CD
here.
October 18-23 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen teaches as
guest professor at the Academy of Music, University in
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
October 15-16 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen gives master class/work shop at
Oulo
University of Applied Sciences, Finland
together with his colleague Michael Strobelt.
July 26
2007
Ragnar Rasmussen is artistic director for
and plays the organ under the commemorative service for
the 700 anniversary of
Vardo church and
Vardohus fortress.
June 18 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
with soloists and
Concerto
Farinelli in concerts at
the 61.
Greifswalder Bachwoche, Greifswald, Germany.
June 11-12
2007
Ragnar Rasmussen particpates in the international music distance teaching prosject Virtual
Music in Levi, Finland.
June 3
2007
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
and orchestra during the ecumenical
service
in the Tromsdalen church (the Arctic Sea Cathedral),
Tromso, Norway (click
here to watch the whole service), during the
celebrations of the
UN
World Environment day. Main speaker is archbishop
and Nobel Peace Prize laureat 1984
Desmond Tutu.
May 20-24 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen particpates in the international music distance teaching prosject Virtual
Music in Ottawa, Canada.
May 17 2005
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Mimas Chamber
Choir with
soloists
in a National Day concert in the Town Hall, Tromso,
Norway.
May 2- 6 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen acts as
Adjudicator
at The 53rd
Cork International
Choral Festival, Ireland.
April 27 - May 1 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Oslo Bach Choir,
Mimas Chamber
Choir and a
Slovenian project choir in
Iver Kleive's 'Requiem'
at concerts in Klagenfurt (Austria) the
28th, Ljubljana (Slovenia) the 29th and during
recordings in Ljubljana (Slovenia) the 30th. Soloists:
Ingebjørg Kosmo
(mezzo soprano) og Trond Hallstein
Moe (barytone). Producer:
Erik Hillestad. Choir rehearsals
in Slovenia:
Urša Lah.
April 22-27 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen is conducting the
State Choir Latvija
in the
Riga Cathedral, Riga, Latvia.
April 19-22 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen gives a workshop at
the annual congress of Danish
Association of Choir Conductors/Foreningen
danske korledere in Copenhagen
April 2-8 2007
PHILHARMONISCHES
KAMMERORCHESTER BERLIN's
international master class in Orchestral Conducting
with
Maestro
Jorma Panula
(Royal College of Music, Stockholm, former Prof. at
Sibelius Academy Helsinki). Master Class orchestra is
the
St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra.
March
16-18 2007
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
presents J. S. Bach's
Mass in B-Minor w/German soloists and
Concerto
Farinelli in Målselv, Nordreisa
and Tromso, Norway
-
A marvelling
success. Ragnar
Rasmussen, Vokal Nord vocal ensemble and
Concerto Farinelli came, played and conquered the
hearts of everyone present in Målselv, Nordreisa and
Tromsø March 16.-18.
'...arctic
choir sound...instrumental orchestra sound from
the 1700 century... The time stood almost still
for two hours. The experience of tranquility, of
meditative calm and concentration, was
overwhelming. ... Johann Sebastian did never
have the chance to listen to this monumental
piece himself. If he had been present in the
Målselv church ... he would have recognised that
his master piece fulfil all his promises.' (Ivar
Jarle Eliassen, Troms folkeblad 19.03.07)
March 3-4 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Oslo Bach Choir and soloists in
Iver Kleive's 'Requiem'
in Lillehammer church and
Helgerud church, Baerum, Oslo, Norway. Organ:
Iver Kleive.
January 27 2007
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
and
soloists in Grieg's "4
Salmer op.74" (No. 3 and 4)
at the official opening of
the commemoration of the
100th anniversary of
Edvard Grieg’s death
durïng the
Northern Lights Festival, Tromsø, Norway.
2006
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December 8-10 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
in a Christmas concert
in Målselv and Tromsø, Norway.
December 7-8 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Tromsø Symphony Orchestra
and Mimas Chamber
Choir in
Händel’s “Messiah”
in Tromsø Cathedral, Norway.
November 20-21 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen gives master class/work shop at
Oulo
University of Applied Sciences, Finland
together with his colleague Michael Strobelt.
Subject: New Norwegian choral music.
November
12-19
2006
Ragnar Rasmussen acts as member of the jury at
the
Second
International Competition for students and teachers
performing in pedagogical institutions of higher
learning at
A.I.Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia,
St.Petersburg,
September 28 -
October 1 and November 5-6 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen co-produces
Jan Gunnar Hoff's coming CD 'Meditatus'
i Bodø cathedral and
Rainbowstudio,
Oslo, Norway.
Buy/listen
to tracks from the CD
here.
October
21 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen gives a diploma seminar for 40
Serbian choir conductors in Zrenjanin, Serbia organised by
Jeunesses Musicales Serbia together with his colleague Michael Strobelt
and
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble.
Read feed backs
here.
October 20 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen gives a
'clinic'
at the
in Budapest,
Hungary, together with his colleague Michael Strobelt
and
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble.
Subject: Scandinavian contemporary. music.
October
20-24 2006
Conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble on tour to Budapest,
Hungary, Belgrade, Novi Sad and Zrenjanin, Serbia under the auspices of the Serbian
branch of Jeunesses Musicales.
September 26 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen gives a 'clinic' in Målselv, Norway together with his colleague Michael Strobelt
and Mellombygd male choir. Subject: 'A choir conductor's
language'.
September 22-24 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble
in concert in
Tromsø, Norway together with the Danish conductor
Jesper Grove
Jørgensen. Programme: Danish music and 'History from
the North'.
September 8-10 2006:
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts Stavanger Vocal Ensemble and the
congress choir
at FoNoKo's
(The Association of Norwegian Choir Conductors)
annual congress in Stavanger. Programme:
J. S. Bach: Motett: Der Geist hilft unsere
Schwachheit auf, W. A. Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus, A.
Pärt:
Magnificat, O. Gjeilo: Tota pulchra es, K. Nystedt: Peace and I will greatly rejoice, H.
Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord, M. Duruflé:
" Notre Pére".
July 23.-30, 2006
Guest
instructor on Lvel 4 (of 5) at The Norwegian Choir Association's
Summer Choir School - at
Toneheim Folkehøgskole
(Folk Highschool), Hamar, Norway.
July
6. - 9. 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen acts as member of the jury
at
The 45th International Choral Competition ”C.A.Seghizzi”,
Gorizia, Italia
July 02 - 04 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
The Serbian Radio Symphony Orchestra, choir and soloists
at the International
Choir Festival "Cantemus " in Zrenjanin, Serbia
July 2 and Novi Sad, Serbia July 4. The concert is celebrating
W. A. Mozart
and the programme holds among other works
Symphony no. 40 in
G-minor Kv 550, Eine kleine Nachtmusik Kv 525
and arias from
Mozart operas.
June 9-10 2006Member of the jury in the choir competition
'Syng For Oss' (Sing for us) in
Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway.
May 29-31 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen gives master class/work shop at
Hochshule für
Musik und Theater Hamburg to Hochschulechor
and Kammerchor. He also gives a lecture
together with his colleague Michael Strobelt.
Subject: New Norwegian choral music.
May 10-14 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts
Oslo Bach Choir in
Iver Kleive's 'Requiem'
in Oslo-
Helgerud church, Bergen -
St.
John's Church og Molde -
The Cathedral. Organ:
Iver Kleive. Soloists:
Ingebjørg Kosmo og
Trond Hallstein Moe
April 3-9 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Troms Symphony Orchestra
and Mimas Chamber
Choir in concert in Tromsø. Programme:
Choir
and orchestra: Fauré: Requiem and Cantique de Jean
Racine,
Orchestra:
H. Sommerro: Suite Sancte Olavus
Choir:
W. A.
Mozart: Laudate Dominum
from Vesperae Solennes de
Confessore, Kv 339
January 12-15 2006
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts
Kor72, “For de skrappe”
at
Musisk Center, Askov, Denmark. Works by
Jennefelt, Kverno, Mendelssohn and Bruckner.
2005
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Oct. 2005:
PHILHARMONISCHES
KAMMERORCHESTER BERLIN's
international master class in Orchestral
Conducting
with Prof.
Gennady Rozhdestvensky,
former chief conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra and
Vienna Symphony Orchestra and artistic director at the
Bolshoi in Moscow.
Master Class orchestra is
Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha.
17-23
Sept. 2005:
PHILHARMONISCHES
KAMMERORCHESTER BERLIN's
international master class in Orchestral
Conducting
with
Colin Metters,
head of conducting at
the
Royal Academy of Music,
London. Master Class orchestra was
Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha.
24-28 July 2005
Theo 2005, Norway
24th - Vang Church, Hamar
- 25th - Our Lady’s Church, Trondheim - 26th - Kirkelandet Church
- 27th - Molde Cathedral - 28th - Parken Kulturhus, Ålesund
29 June-3 July 2005
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble at The Barents Festival,
“Choir Festival Week” in Tromsø, Norway
23-26 June 2005
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts as Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble is the Festival Choir during the
Norwegian Choir Association’s National Choir Festival,
Alta, Norway
Weeks 24/25 June 2005
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble at the Festival of North Norway, Harstad,
Norway.
10-12 June 2005
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts Kristiansund
Sinfonietta at the Vårsøg Festival, Surnadal, Norway:
Soloist: Henning Sommerro
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February 9 2005
Ragnar Rasmussen
conducts Mimas Chamber Choir at the inauguration of a
new building at the University of Tromsø. Norway’s King
Harald V is present.
2004
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12 December 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble’s traditional Christmas
Concert in Tromsø Cathedral, Norway.
Soloists:
Sondre Pettersen (boy soprano),
Tore Johansen (jazz trumpet),
Trygve Skipenes Østrem (flute) og Sindre Sandvik
(piano), bishop Per Oskar Kjølaas.
Review:
Dagbladet Nordlys
(Norwegian)
Late Saturday night, 4 December 2004
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts Mimas chamber choir, Tromsø
Symphony Orchestra and staff and students from the North
Norwegian music conservatory in “Mozart Requiem in the
night of Mozart’s Death”, the Arctic Cathedral, Tromsø,
Norway. Soloists: Mona Julsrud (soprano), Ann-Beth
Solvang (alto), Carlo Vincenzo Allemano (tenor) og Njål
Sparbo (bass).
Review: Dagbladet Nordlys (Norwegian)
14 November 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble in Bodø Cathedral, Norway
21-24 October 2004
SAGA Chamber choir in Kristiansund and at Tingvoll,
Nord-Møre, Norway
23rd – Tingvoll Church.
24th – Nordlandet Church, Kristiansund.
Reviews:
Tingvoll.net og
Tidens krav (Norwegian)
14-17 October 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble’s Finnmark County Tour, Norway
15th – North Cape.15th – Hammerfest.16th – Alta.17th – Nordreisa
18 September 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble concert at the Norwegian
Choir Association’s National Congress in Tromsø, Norway
6 September 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble, Tromsø Symphony
Orchestra. Soloists: Bjørn Andor Drage,
Kristin Mellem and Inga Juuso. Opening concert at PEN
Conference in Tromsø
Link
http://www.norskpen.no/pen/tromso.shtml
23 July 2004
Conducting festival choir in concert at “Nordklang 12”
in Jyväskylä, Finland
18-24 July 2004
Norwegian guest conductor at “Nordklang 12” in
Jyväskylä, Finland
11 July 2004
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts Vokal
Nord vocal ensemble in
the Finale concert i
European Grand Prix for Choral Singing, Gorizia, Italia
10 July 2004
Ragnar Rasmussen conducts Vokal
Nord
vocal ensemble in
concert as a finalist in the European Grand Prix for
Choral Singing, Mel, Italy
8 July 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble concerts in Aula Absidale
di Santa Lucia at the closing of Festival
Corale Internazionale “Città di Bologna”, Bologna, Italy
Link to the concert
7-11 July 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble participating in European
Grand Prix for Choral Singing 2004, Gorizia, Italy
3 July 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble concert at Arctic Trombone
Festival.
Works by Bruchner and Merle for choir and trombones, and
Vokal Nord’s competition programme for European Grand
Prix for Choral Singing, Gorizia, Italy 2004
2 June 2004
Mini workshop in Tromsø with “Etiquette” from
Hordaland, Norway
24 April 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble and Mimas Chamber Choir in
concert Tromsø Cathedral, Norway. Conducted by student conductors from
the North Norwegian music conservatory.
1 April 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble and Tromsø Symphony
Orchestra. Church concert in collaboration with Tromsø
Amnesty. Programme: “Berliner Messe” (Arvo Pärt),
“Cantos Sagrados” (James Macmillan), “Sarek” (Terje Bjørklund)
13 March 2004
Guest conductor with Mollis, Nordreisa, Norway.
12 March 2004
The North Norwegian music conservatory
choir in concert at Grønnåsen Church, Tromsø, Norway.
Programme: “Libra” by Per Nørgård. The composer was
present and gave an introduction.
20-22
February 2004
Guest conductor with Mollis, Nordreisa, Norway
15 February 2004
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble in concert, Målselv
Church, Norway
5-8 February 2004
SAGA Chamber choir concerts in Gjøvik and Gausdal.
Programme: Norwegian Choirs – Romance by the bucketfuls!
22 January 2004
Mimas Chamber Choir concert at Northern Lights
Festival. Tromsø, Norway. Programme: Includes
“Liebeslieder op. 52” (Brahms)
21 January 2004
Opening ceremony, Northern Lights Festival, Tromsø,
Norway. Includes the renown soprano Solveig Kringlebotn
(http://www.n-m-a.no/English.htm) and 300 Tromsø
choristers.
2003
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12 December 2003
Mimas Chamber Choir and Tromsø Civic Orchestra. Programme: Excerpts from Händel’s “Messiah” and more.
8-10 December 2003
Conducting a concert in Bodø with Birgitte
Christensen (soprano),
Bodø Sinfonietta,
Con
Brio
Chamber Choir, Rønvik Vocal Ensemble.
Programme: Includes “Lauda per la nativitá del Signore”
(O. Respighi)
Link to the concert
24-29 November 2003
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) production with
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble, chamber choir Mimas Chamber
Choir and Tromsø Symphony Orchestra
8 November 2003
Conducting the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble at
conferring ceremony at Luleå
Technical University.
Read more
1-6 October 2003
The Barents Choir Centre’s
official opening ceremony with Vokal Nord vocal ensemble
Directing concerts and teaching in Master Classes.
26-28 September 2003
Conductors’ and choristers’ workshop in Stjørdal, Rica
Hell Hotel
Together with Per Husby (ipano).
15-21 September 2003
Concerts with Mimas Chamber choir and Henning
Sommerro in Skjervøy Kulturhus and Skjervøy Church,
Norway.
12-14 September 2003
Conductors’ workshop in Bergen, Norway
Organiser: Hordaland Korforbund (Choir Association)
6-12 August 2003
“Theo-03” in Thórshavn, the Faeroe Islands
6 August 2003
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble/Ensemble Nord concert
during Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Norway.
Soloist M. Hirsti (soprano). Programme: “Samiske
Romanser” (“Sami Romances”)
4 August 2003
Conducting
Carl Orff`s cantata Carmina Burana during Nordland Music Festival
Week in Bodø, Norway
21-27 July 2003
Conducting
Carl Orff`s cantata Carmina Burana during “Kor72” in Tønder,
Denmark
28 June-7 July 2003
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble performing by invitation at
the choir competition in Gorizia, Italy. Concerts also
in Venice, Bologna and Florence.
June 27 2003
Trønderkor Choir and Vokal Nord vocal ensemble. Concert
in Arctic Cathedral, Tromsø, Norway.
23-28 June 2003
Conducting Trønderkor Choir on its tour in
North Norway. Concerts during Festival of North Norway (Harstad),
in Narvik and in Tromsø. Programme: Brahms'
“Liebeslieder Op. 52” and Norwegian music.
28 May 28-1 June 2003
Chamber choir SAGA giving two concerts during “the
National Choir Festival” in Kristiansand, Norway.
25 May 2003
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble concert in Målselv Church,
Norway.
30 April-4 May 2003
CD recording
"Advenio" (EUCD 24 2003)in
Målselv Church, Norway with Vokal Nord
vocal ensemble and the Carmelite Nuns, Tromsø,
Norway. Producer: Henning Sommerro.
Buy/listen to tracks from the CD
here.
11 April 2003
Mimas Chamber choir and Tromsø Symphony Orchestra.
Concert in Tromsø Cathedral, Norway. Programme: Sommerro:
“Fram in the Ice”, Panchenko: “The Last Viking”.
4 April 2003
Conducting CCarl
Orff`s cantata Carmina Burana in Mosjøen, Norway
with students and teachers from the the North
Norwegian music conservatory
and students from the music department at Mosjøen Upper
Secondary School.
23-30 March 2003
Mimas Chamber choir in Russia: Concerts in St.
Petersburg and Petrozavodsk, in collaboration with St.
Petersburg’s National Orchestra. Programme: Sommerro:
“Fram in the Ice”, Panchenko: “The Last Viking”, Grieg:
“Four Psalms”. Soloist: Fredrik Akselberg
(tenor).
Master Classes for Russian conductors - title: “Nordic
choir music”.
28 February-2 March 2003
Choristers’ workshop, Sør-Troms, Norway together
with Pål-Are Bakksjø.
23 February 2003
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble giving concert in
Mestervik (Troms), Norway.
7-9 February 2003
SAGA Chamber choir giving concerts in Maria Church,
Skjold Church and Stragiotti Ristorante in Bergen,
Norway.
2002
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22 December 2002
Christmas Concert in Vardø Church, Norway with
musicians from Vardø.
8 December 2002
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble’s Christmas Concert in Tromsø
Cathedral, Norway
29 November-1 December 2002
Mimas Chamber choir Christmas Concert Tour to
Tromsø, Narvik, Harstad, Norway. Soloist: Berit
Opheim (trad. music singer).
23-24 November 2002
Trønderkor Choir Christmas Jazz Concert “Svart natt-blå
toner” (“Black Night, Blue Tones”). Soloists: Per Husby, John P. Inderberg, Bjørn Alterhaug,
Pål-Are Bakksjø and Berit Norbakken Solset
23rd Olavshallen, Trondheim, Norway
24th Kulturhuset, Inderøy, Norway
16 November 2002
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble giving concert in Nordreisa
Church, Norway. Programme:
Lidholm, Jennefelt, Bergh, Thompson, Nystedt and others.
14 November 2002
Mimas Chamber choir and musicians from the North
Norwegian Music Conservatory.
Soloist: Fredrik Akselberg (tenor).
Programme: Grieg: “Four
Psalms” Pärt: “Magnificat”, Schnittke: “Requiem”.
9 November 2002
Tromsø Cantabile giving concert at Tromsø
Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Tromsø, Norway. Soloist: Ragnar Rasmussen (Piano).
Conductor: Pål-Are Bakksjø.
3 November 2002
Con Brio Chamber Choir in Bodø Cathedral, Norway.
Soloist: Bjørn Andor Drage (Organ). Programme: Duruflé:
Requiem/Quatre Motets.
20 October 2002
Directing the “The Margot concert” in support for
relief aid to Murmansk, Russia. Tromsø Performing Arts
Centre, Norway.
19 October 2002
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble giving pub concert in
Mack-kjelleren, Tromsø, Norway.
5-6 October 2002
SAGA Chamber choir concerts in Tønsberg and Oslo, Norway
13-15 September 2002
Choir and conductor class in Vardø, Norway together with
Bodil Onsøien Rasmussen.
Organiser: Finnmark Choir Association/NMR Finnmark
6 September 2002
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble/Ensemble Nord concert at Tromsø
Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Tromsø, Tromsø during “Ordkalotten”.
Soloist M. Hirsti (soprano).
Programme: “Samiske Romanser” (“Sami Romances”).
27 June-4 July 2002
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble/Coro Euridice (Bologna,
Italy) touring North Norway: Trondenes Church (Festival
of North Norway), Myre Church, Røst Church and the
Arctic Cathedral, Tromsø. Programme: New music for two
choirs by Bjørn Andor Drage.
23 June 2002
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble/Ensemble Nord concert in
Harstad Perfoming Arts Centre (Festival of North Norway)
Soloist M. Hirsti (soprano).
Programme: “Samiske Romanser” (“Sami Romances”).
13-18 June 2002
Conducting Coro Euridice in Bologna, Italy.
May-June 2002
Teaching in Oslo, Steinkjer, Korgen and Tromsø,
Norway. Master classes and examinations at
The Barents Choir Centre
in Piteå, Sweden, Oulo, Finland and Pertozavodsk,
Russia.
20-21 May 2002
Workshop with Vardø Women’s Choir and Vardø Male
Choral Society in Vardø, Norway.
27-28 April 2002
Trønderkor Choir Jubliee Concert. Soloist:
Berit Opheim (trad. music singer).
27th Our Lady’s Church, Trondheim, Norway.
28th Sakshaug Church, Inderøy, Norway.
10 March 2002
Conducts Vokal Nord vocal ensemble and Mimas Chamber
Choir at the inauguration ceremony of the new bishop in
Nord-Hålogaland bishopric. Programme:
“Samiske Romanser” (“Sami Romances”) and
Stanford.
26 February 2002
Mimas Chamber choir and Tromsø Symphony Orchestra.
Programme. Joseph Haydn: “Die Shöpfung” – The Creation.
22-24 February 2002
Workshop and concert at Gruben, Mo i Rana, Norway
with Aasmund Nordstoga, Tor Halvard Nilsen and Bodil
Onsøien Rasmussen.
15-18 February 2002:
Choir master for Tromsø Opera Choir performing in
Puccini's
Tosca together with soloists from
the
Norwegian National Opera
and Tromsø Symphony Orchestra in
Tromsø Performing Arts Centre.
7-10 February 2002
Workshop, Sweden together with Bjørn Andor Drage.
2-3 February 2002
SAGA Chamber choir concerts in Gjøvik, Hamar and
Lillehammer, Norway.
27 January 2002
Vokal Nord vocal ensemble at Northern Lights Festival in
Tromsø, Norway. Programme: “Samiske romanser” (“Sami
Romances”).
12 January 2002
New Year’s Concert in Tromsø Performing Arts Centre,
Norway with Tromsø Opera Choir and Tromsø Symphony
Orchestra.
2001
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16 December 2001
Mimas Chamber choir participating in televised
church service. (The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
(NRK1)).
15 December 2001
A Christmas Matinée with Vokal Nord vocal ensemble and
Per Huseby (piano) in Verdensteatret, Tromsø, Norway.
Early December 2001
Mimas Chamber choir participating in Coro Forum Europei,
Rome, Italy.
2 December 2001
Mimas Chamber choir participating in televised
church service. (The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
(NRK1)).
