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Love Enigmas

Love is a perpetually fascinating theme in the Together with our collaborators we aim to world of art. The most enigmatic of our emotions, create a many-splendoured festival – in the it brings us joy when we experience it set to music, truest sense of the word – impacting the lives of AN OPEN INVITATION recounted in literature or staged in the theatre, in our audiences in unique and unmissable ways, dance and in film. We enjoy it because art presents both in venues in the city centre, the composers’ TO VISIT OUR 24-HOUR us with mirror images of ourselves and of the most homes and elsewhere in the region. important driving forces in our lives. OPEN BANK The Bergen International Festival is an event Like a whirling maelstrom love can embrace in which artists from all over the world want ON 5-6 JUNE 2015 us and suck us in and down into the undertow to participate, and they are attracted to the with unforeseeable consequences. Love unites playfulness, creativity and tantalizing energy high and low, selfishness and selflessness, self- of the festival. The Bergen International Festival Experience Bergen International Festival at affirmation and self-denial, and carries us with is synonymous with a high level of energy and our branch at Torgallmenningen 2. There will equal portions of blindness and ruthlessness a zest for life and art. Like an explorer, it is be activities and mini-concerts for children into the embrace of the waterfall, where its unafraid, yet approachable at the same time. throat opens and makes room for the rest. and adults. The Bergen International Festival leaves its The journey into the unknown often goes mark on the city and its inhabitants, disturbing Bring your family and friends and discover a through water, which since time immemorial their everyday schedules – bringing instead a has been an image of a boundary or transition menu to pick from of dreams, adventures and different kind of bank. DNB – Always open! between life and death. The destiny of love a space to breathe in new air and think new affects the mythical Orpheus, who sails to the thoughts. Free admission. Welcome! underworld to fetch his beloved Eurydiche. The same destiny befalls Porgy, who goes to New York to seek out his Bess. Programme details will be published On the evening that the Bergen International Anders Beyer on fib.no closer to the event. Festival occupies the beautiful city of Bergen Festival director clothed in spring colours, we open with Twitter: @AndersBey Gershwin’s classic Porgy & Bess, and after two weeks packed with experiences we round off with Monteverdi’s Orfeo.

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022 Festival After-party at Lysverket 047 The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour 073 Once upon a human being 031 Midnight Reflection on the Cross 073 Nothing of Me Index 030 Bømlo: Choral Extravaganza at 047 Ensemble Allegria with 073 LilleLab Moster Amfi Ane Dahl Torp & 074 Home Visit: Europe 030 Askøy: Pasifika Voices 048 Stella Maris 076 The Provocateur See also the programme calendar. 030 Askøy and Austevoll: Night 051 Lysøen: Christopher Tun Andersen 076 Kamchàtka with Lina & Audun and Elise & Henninge Båtnes 077 Free 052 Lysøen: Miriam Helms Ålien k ú Dramatised concert Family s CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS and Melina Mandozzi d DANCE m Music Outdoors 023 iD with Cirque Éloize ú 053 Valestrand: Sonoko Miriam Shimano Welde 075 Carte Blanche: Birthmark t Theatre f Film and Ingerine & Milan & Igor d o Dance Dialogues t THEATRE 054 Siljustøl: Ernst Simon Glaser and k DRAMATISED CONCERT u Opera Exhibition 024 Kafka feat. Röyksopp m Christian Hundsnes Grøvlen 065 Obra with Bergen Big Band & Batagraf s Contemporary circus 025 King Size m 055 Grieg’s Villa: Randi Stene with Håvard Gimse 067 DOG/GOD and Intimate Concert with Andsnes & Friends ú FAMILY (INDOORS) 056 Troldsalen: The Norwegian Soloist Prize 026 Hotel Paradiso t 058 Troldsalen: Winterreise 027 Children & Youth Programme tmd 058 Troldsalen: More lunch concerts in Troldsalen 059 Troldsalen: Van Baerle Trio, Ingrid Andsnes Other OUTDOORS and Leonore Trio Festivities 013 Festival Street m 060 Drop In Concerts, The Academy’s Selection, OTHER 028 The Sheep t ú Master classes and Piano Concert 078 Festival Exhibition 2015 u 028 Outdoor Programme dm ú 061 Carion ENTERTAINMENT AND 079 Dialogues o SURPRISES 029 Rival vs. Rival dm ú 080 Festival Lounge 080 Visit us online 006 Opening Ceremony md 080 Talk to us 086 The Festival thanks m MUSIC Friction 008 Porgy & Bess Foundations PRACTICAL INFORMATION 010 BIG Nightmare Music with Igudesman & Joo RECKLESS AND 080 Accessibility and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra k EXPLORATORY THE BEST OF THE BEST IN 084 Accommodation and Transport 011 Family Concert With Cateura THE CLASSICAL ART TRADITION m 081 Venue map 012 Last Tango in Berlin with Ute Lemper MUSIC 082 Tickets 013 The Song Book of Memories m MUSIC 064 Adam & Eve – A Divine Comedy 013 Street Festival 034 Catone in Utica 065 Obra with Bergen Big Band & Batagraf 013 Jan Eggum 035 Nordic prism with Grieg’s A minor 065 Rosary Meditations 014 Moana – the Rising of the Sea d 036 & Friends I-III 066 Stockhausen – Stimmung 068 L’Homme Armée with the Norwegian Navy 015 Mames Babegenush 038 Orfeo d 016 RIFF df 040 The Danish String Quartet and Band Bergen 017 Douce France with Christian Ihle Hadland 068 The Nordic Council Music Prize 018 Ljodahått 041 Nordic Soloist Finals – Nominees 2015 019 Omar Sosa Quarteto AfroCubano 042 Les Arts Florissants 069 Sinfonietta with Helmut Lachenmann 020 Gammalgrass and friends 043 Borodin String Quartet t 020 HP Gundersen with friends 044 Vivaldi – Concerti a due THEATRE 021 Per Arne Glorvigen Trio 045 Quatuor Diotima with Jörg Widmann 070 Mies Julie 022 Classical Apollon 046 Trio Wanderer 071 EROS 072 DUB Leviathan!

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m Her Majesty Queen Sonja will be present dur- ing the opening day. TORG- Opening ALLMENNINGEN The full programme will be published DATE/TIME on www.fib.no when the opening day is Wednesday 27 May Ceremony approaching. at 12:30

DURATION We hope to see you there! 1:00 The 63rd Bergen International Festival opens Admission free with a grand outdoor event in the city square Torgallmenningen, with teasers from Festival artists, speeches and surprises, and of course Supported by Rika AS, represented by the traditional singing of Nystemten. Prime Yvonne & Bjarne Rieber Minister Erna Solberg will be giving a speech. 01 FESTIVI- TIES ENTERTAINMENT AND SURPRISES. FOR YOUNG AND OLD. PLAYFUL SCENES IN THE STREETS AND EVENTS AT NEW AND FAMILIAR VENUES. BROAD APPEAL. EXPERIENCES FOR YOUR HEAD, HEART AND FEET.

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Edited by: Bergen International Festival / Design and concept: ANTI Bergen, www.anti.as / Printed by: Bodoni / Concept images: Fred Jonny / 3D Illustrations: Elijah A. Chote. Photos: Thor Brødreskift (p. 6, 41, 71, 75 ), Gary Kelly (p. 10), Julia Wesely (p. 10), Lucas Allen (p. 12), Eilin Holtan Torgersen (p. 14), Askman/Frölich (p. 15), Rashid Akrim (p. 16), Mats Bäcker (p. 17), Léa Hélior (p. 18), José Torres García (p. 19), Branco Majewski (p. 21), Cecilie Bannow (p. 22), Agnete Brun (p. 24), Simon Hallström, ICONIQ Studio GmbH (p. 25), Marianne Menke (p. 26), Gary Mulcahey (p. 28), Anna Berkut (p. 31), Oddleiv Apneseth (p. 32), Helge Hansen (p. 36), Tamihito Yoshida (p. 36), Sverre C. Jarild (p. 36), Tony Sandin (p. 36), Nikolaj Lund (p. 36 & p. 40), Thor Østbye (p. 36), Bo Madvig (p. 39), Denis Rouvre (p. 42), Keith Saunders (p. 43), Oscar Vazquez (p. 44), MolinaVisuals (p. 45), Marco Borggreve (p. 46), Espen Mortensen (p. 48), Anna-Julia Granberg (p. 51), Øystein Ramstad (p. 52), Nadia Norskott (p. 53), Siv Sivertsen (p. 83), Lina Ikse (p. 54), Hans Jørgen Brun (p. 54), Ari Magg (p. 56), Per Morten Abrahamsen (p. 57), Balmer & Dixon (p. 58), Haakon Nordvik (p. 59), R. Johansen (p. 61), Jesús Ginard Fuster (p. 64), Klaus Holsting (p. 66), Alice Winnberg (p. 67), Klaus Rudolph (p. 69), Murdo Macleod (p. 70), Mette Tronvoll (p. 77), Cecilie Semec FNF (p. 78)

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m Porgy & Bess GRIEGHALLEN GRIEGSALEN

DATE/TIME Wednesday 27 May at 18:45

Thursday 28 May at 19:00

DURATION Classic love story with a star cast and 1:15 full orchestra opens the Festival. Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra OTHER Andrew Litton conductor Introduction by The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra’s music Gordon Hawkins Porgy Henrik Engelbrecht director Andrew Litton has recreated the in the Grieghallen Karen Slack Serena foyer (in Danish) manifold styles and emotions found in George Janice Chandler-Eteme Bess Wednesday 27 May Gershwin’s opera from 1935 in this suite. Howard Haskin Sportin’ life at 18:00

Thursday 28 May ‘I arranged my Suite from Porgy & Bess because at 18:15 Bergen Philharmonic Choir there was no other suite of music from the opera Kor TICKET* that preserved George Gershwin’s music as Bergen Private Gymnas, Musikklinjen Full price: 200–700 he wrote it. It is very easy to turn the opera Under 30: 150 Håkon Matti Skrede chorus master into a Broadway show, because of all the hit *Festival card: tunes, and all the other arrangements do just 40 %–30 % discount that. However, Porgy and Bess is very much GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898–1937) Porgy & Bess an opera and I wanted to be able to perform it in a concert hall where the integrity of the opera was maintained. Therefore, in my suite, Supported by Rika AS, represented one doesn’t just get the hit songs, but one also by Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber gets the entire scene around the hits, so one has much more of a sense of their place in the Sponsored by DNB and DNV GL opera’, says the conductor.

In Litton’s distillate of Porgy & Bess you will hear the famous hits Summertime, I Got Plenty o’Nuttin and It Ain’t Necessarily So, performed by an all-American star soloist cast, handpicked by Litton himself. Together with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, which celebrates its 250th year in 2015, and a large choir, they will create an opening performance with plenty o’ musical highlights..

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Litton conductor Aleksey Igudesman violin Hyung-ki Joo piano

WORKS BY MOZART, RACHMANINOV, BACH, VIVALDI, STRAUSS, BEETHOVEN, IGUDESMAN & JOO.

Sponsored by PwC

Family Concert BIG with Cateura Nightmare Music – Orchestra of Recycled Instruments with Igudesman & Joo As the two musicians join forces with Bergen mú Great contrasts, commitment, and a activate local children and create a greater and Bergen Philharmonic Philharmonic Orchestra they lose themselves in striking musicality. sense of solidarity. As they had no access to the repertoire and create musical «nightmares» GRIEGHALLEN regular instruments, he came up with the idea Orchestra of epic proportions. The show combines skits GRIEGSALEN With instruments made of oil drums, broken of creating instruments from waste from the and humour with well-known and unknown kitchen utensils and metal pipes, youth from DATE/TIME landfill. m k works, such as Bond Mozart, Alla molto Turca Wednesday 03 June Paraguay have shown that music is all about and Cleaning vs. River-dancing, all of them at 18:00 interaction, involvement and communica- "It has been a long process to figure out what GRIEGHALLEN amplified by a full symphony orchestra. You will tion. The members of Cateura – The Recycled sounds good. The instruments should not only GRIEGSALEN DURATION also experience Igudesman and Joo as soloists 1:40 including Orchestra live in the area around the landfill be exotic and strange, they should work for us DATE/TIME in renowned concerts and their own orchestral interval with the same name in Paraguay's capital. as an orchestra," Chavez says. Tuesday 02 June works. The performance is sure to delight lovers at 19:30 TICKET* The story of the unique orchestra has attracted The Bergen International Festival has previously Igudesman & Joo’s musical madness in of classical music, and those who run for cover Full price: 150–350 international attention and the young musici- initiated joint concerts between Norwegian DURATION full symphony. at the mere mention of the word ”Mozart”. Under 30: 150 1:50 including ans are now on a world tour. At the Bergen music school students and El Sistema from interval Classical musicians Aleksey Igudesman and “I couldn’t stop crying of laughter for the whole *Festival card: International Festival they meet Norwegian Venezuela. These meetings whet the appetite 40 %–30 % discount Hyung-ki Joo have taken the world by storm evening. Go see these gifted musicians. What music school students. The two orchestras of both audience and musicians.​ TICKET* Full price: 190–490 with their show’s unique mixture of comedy, they show is life at its funniest side. It isn’t just will play together and separately, in a varied Under 30: 150 classical music and popular culture. The duo entertaining, it is hilarious!” – , programme for the entire family. Supported by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB has become a YouTube phenomenon with 35 VIOLINIST *Festival card: Environmental technician and musician Favio – Dextra Musica ​ 40 %–30 % discount million hits. Chavez founded the Cateura orchestra to

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​The Song Book Festival of Memories Street

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GRIEGHALLEN TICKET/OTHER GRIEGSALEN Admission free Outdoors Last Tango with seat ticket. DATE/TIME For registration, see SKOSTREDET DURATION Thursday 28 May www.fib.no/sangbok 12:00 at 14:00 (Norwegian only) DATE/TIME in Berlin Saturday 06 June TICKET Admission free DURATION Open seminar on at 15:00 0:50 dementia at 09:00. Discussion and film at 17:00. A big outdoors concert Jan Eggum featuring popular artists in ‘Music begins where words Skostredet, free of charge. end, wrote J W Goethe. m The best of Ute Lemper. Music, exhibitions, talks and other free entertainment m DURATION We have music with us throughout 1:30 This concert touches on all the different musical from 3 pm to 3 am. GRIEGHALLEN life, and even when we lose the ability GRIEGSALEN chapters of the German-American singer’s GRIEGHALLEN TICKET* to speak and sing, there is still rhythm GRIEGSALEN repertoire, yet also leaves space for open The Bergen International Festival Full price: 190–450 DATE/TIME in the body. This is why music is a Under 30: 150 improvisations and great moments of virtuosity repeats last year's success: free con- DATE/TIME Thursday 04 June key to communicating with people at 20:00 and celebrates Ute’s inspiration from jazz and certs, art exhibitions, DJs and other Monday 08 June *Festival card: with dementia. Music strengthens at 20:00 ethnic musical influences. activities fill Skostredet throughout 40 %–30 % discount DURATION social interaction and contributes to the day. There will be outdoor and 1:50 Ute Lemper has been called the Marlene an improved quality of life. indoor events at venues throughout Brazilian musicians give TICKET* Dietrich of our time, and both Nick Cave, Tom the street. The event is free and has 's singer-songwriting In this concert Herborg Kråkevik Full price: 190–450 Waits, Philip Glass and Elvis Costello have no age limit. master an even stronger Under 30: 150 and the girls’ chorus share their joy composed for her. pulse. of singing with the audience. One of *Festival card: 40 %–30 % discount This evening, the journey starts in Berlin with the pieces is the work Et blad falder til In collaboration with Ekko, Østre, Eggum himself believes his latest Ute’s root repertoire: Brecht, Weill and the Berlin himlen (A leaf falls to the sky), com- Lydgalleriet, Regnbuedagene i Bergen album ranks among his very best. Cabaret Songs. The journey continues into the posed by Bent Sørensen to lyrics by and Boksalongen, among others At this year's festival, the audience poetic universe of the French chansons by Brel, Knud Romer. Both men’s fathers were will experience the meeting between Ute Lemper vocals Piaf, Ferré, and further to the Argentinian world afflicted by dementia. The words and Eggum's songwriting universe and Vana Gierig piano Supported by Grieg Foundation and of tango by Astor Piazzolla. Ute walks through music of the work are about the con- the Latin American sound live for the Victor Villena bandoneon the Kavli Trust​ the backstreets of , Berlin, New York and dition – in the music there are echoes very first time. Five musicians have Cyril Garac violin lets ancient ghosts tell the stories of the lost, of the songs that many learned as travelled from Rio to join Eggum on Romain Lecuyer bass of love, survival, passion, dreams, the past and children, and the whole work is sur- Sponsored by DNB​ stage in Grieghallen. the future. She also performs her own songs to rounded by a singalong of traditional connect the yesterday with the today through Sponsored by DNB Norwegian songs. For Jan Eggum, who is known for his her own stories about these places. groovy guitar playing, this is a dream come true. Supported by the GC Rieber Foundation and the Oticon Foundation Sponsored by Dagens Næringsliv​

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Mames Babegenush Emil Goldschmidt clarinet Moana Bo Rande flugelhorn Lukas Rande saxophone Nicolai Kornerup harmonica Andreas Møllerhøj bass The Rising of Christian Hørsted drums the Sea Henrik Goldschmidt oboe

Supported by the Oticon Foundation md Experience this captivating performance from Fiji! European premiere For anyone who lives on an island, surrounded by the deep, beautiful yet dangerous sea, it is

GRIEGHALLEN a cruel thought that one day the island will be - swallowed by the ocean. For the inhabitants SALEN of the tropical Pacific Islands, this is about to m DATE/TIME happen. Global climate change makes the sea Friday 29 May rise and the land to disappear. How does it feel at 18:00 when the sea forces you to abandon all that Late Night Logen Mames OSEANA you hold dear? What does the threat of climate change mean to the island societies and the LOGEN TEATER DATE/TIME families who live there? Babegenush Sunday 31 May at 19:00 DATE/TIME Moana – The Rising of the Sea is an intense Saturday 30 May DURATION and colourful declaration of love to the nature at 22:00 1:45 and cultures of the Pacific, performed by DURATION OTHER Pacific Islanders. Through music, dance and 2:00 including interval Introduction in video, 25 dancers and singers from Oceania Energetic and melancholy love in "Mames Babegenush" is Yiddish and means the Peer Gynt foyer Dance Theatre and the choir Pasifika Voices Oceania Dance Theatre & Pasifika Voices at 17:30 TICKET* Jewish festive spirit. "mom's aubergine salad". The Danish band Introduction in share motions and experiences not so easily Vilsoni Hereniko executive producer & Full price: 290 has won international klezmer awards, and is Under 30: 150 Oseana at 18:00 captured in scientific reports. original story The clarinet is fervent, yet heartbreaking, the known for creating a magical atmosphere at Peter Rockford Espiritu director & *Festival card: bass gets your blood pumping and the accor- their concerts. Last autumn they released a Open climate Leading climate researchers meet in Bergen symposium at choreographer 40 %–30 % discount dion leaves you breathless. Get ready to be new album. the University of on 29 May for an open symposium about glo- Igelese Ete musical director, carried away by this six-man orchestra and Bergen on 29 May, bal warming and rising sea levels. Before the original score & music their declaration of love to klezmer! see p. 79. performance, one of the participants will give Allan Alo original lyrics & cultural advisor TICKET* a brief introduction to the powerful messages Klezmer is music for weddings and other Full price: 290 conveyed by Moana. celebrations, and has a long tradition. The Under 30: 150 A collaborative effort by the Bergen first references to it are found in 17th cen- International Festival, the University of *Festival card: tury Eastern Europe. Its hypnotic rhythms and 40 %–30 % discount Bergen and the University of the South heartfelt melodies from Jewish folk music have Pacific. since influenced many musical genres, jazz in particular.

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Tatiana "Miss Tati" Palanca host RIFF Mira Thiruchelvam flute, bass, guitar Dipha Thiruchelvam flute, bass, guitar Senthan Dhayalan table Jakob Hamre Cajon drum m Masood Taha vocals Douce Danitza Olea flamenco dancer Late Night Liliana Palanca dancer Logen Miguel Castillo song, guitar, charango France Dag Olav Larsen flutes, percussion LOGEN TEATER

Geir Rognø bass DATE/TIME m d f A celebration of music and dance from Tuesday 02 June Bergen and the world. Gothenburg Gadjos at 22:00 with Anne Sofie LOGEN TEATER Washamba Wanao RukaRuka with Chiku Ali DURATION RIFF offers swinging Balkan beats, Chilean and and others 2:00 including von Otter DATE/TIME Tamil hits, flamenco, hip-hop and African dance interval Sunday 31 May music that originates from Café Sanaa. It is a at 18:30* TICKET* polyphonic feast with local and international Full price: 290 DURATION names on the bill. Under 30: 150 4:30 Gothenburg Gadjos, who are described as *Festival card: Let Anne Sofie von Otter take you to OTHER 40 %–30 % discount Finger food will be "Scandinavia's hottest Balkan beat band" is the French salons. served at 18:30. one of the bands that visit Bergen this eve- Hear the world-known Swedish mezzo-soprano ning. Trumpet player Ruhi Erdogan and four *The ticket grants performs popular chansons and classic French access to the seasoned musicians like to mix music from the songs from the 20th century. Accompanied by whole evening, and southeast Balkans with elements from jazz you can come and Bengt Forsberg on piano, Lawrence Power on and club music, and have thrilled audiences at go as you please. viola and a small band with accordion, guitar numerous European festivals in the past few and bass, she transforms Logen into a French TICKET* years. Full price: 190 salon for the evening. Under 30: 150 The programme is taken from von Otter's dou- This evening will be bursting with joy and Member discount Von Otter has also previously moved beyond ble album Douce France. "Von Otter's voice has for DFIH/BIKS energy, and present a rich selection of music the boundaries of classical music with great a greater mellowness, and just the right hint of and dance from different corners of the world. *Festival card: success, as witnessed by her collaboration huskiness, to conjure the salon atmosphere – RIFF was arranged for the very first time in 2014, 40 %–30 % discount with Elvis Costello, for instance. This evening think of Proust – of so many of these intimate and was a great success. Finger food and film she performs timeless treasures from French songs," The Guardian's critic wrote in a review are part of the experience, and this year, stories musical history. of the album. from Bollywood will be shown on screen. "I could keep singing and listening to these The RIFF menu is based on big words such as songs all my life. They hold so much warmth, Anne Sofie von Otter vocals roots, identity, diversity and community. But fun and melancholy," says Anne Sofie von Otter. Lawrence Power viola above all it is a boundless celebration of music Presented in association with Det Felles Bengt Forsberg piano for your feet, heart and mind. The artist Miss Innvandrerråd i (Hordaland Joint Bengan Jansson accordion Tati will be our guide throughout the evening. Immigrant Council) and Bergen International Olle Linder guitar Culture Center. Gustav Lundgren bass

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m Omar Sosa Late Night Omar Sosa piano, Fender Rhodes, Logen motif es8, vocals Quarteto Ernesto Simpson drums

LOGEN TEATER Childo Tomas electric bass, m'bira, vocals AfroCubano Leandro Saint-Hill saxophones, flute, DATE/TIME percussion Friday 05 June at 22:00

DURATION 1:30 Afro-Cuban rhythm feast. TICKET* Full price: 290 Ever since he emigrated from Cuba in 1993, m Under 30: 150 pianist and composer Omar Sosa has created Late Night *Festival card: his own distinctive musical style by mixing jazz, Logen 40 %–30 % discount world music, hip hop and electronic elements with his Afro-Cuban background. LOGEN TEATER

DATE/TIME To the Bergen International Festival he brings Thursday 04 June at 22:00 his brand new album ilé, released in March. The you'd be on the right track: poems sung and spoken title means "home", "earth", "homeland". DURATION in Norwegian to the accompaniment of a band that 1:50 Ljodahått can reach up to 11 members. ... The words could be "With this project I want to return home, to my TICKET* taken from Nobel prize winner Knut Hamsun, or Cuban roots, to the sounds I heard as a child," Full price: 290 poet-cum-lumberjack Hans Børli, and the music says Omar Sosa, who has seven Grammy nomi- Under 30: 150 Norwegian cultural heritage some- is all original compositions.” nations and around 25 albums to his name. *Festival card: where between Arcade Fire and The rest of the group consists of drummer 40 %–30 % discount Leonard Cohen. Ernesto Simpson and wind player extraordinaire Ljodahått Leandro Saint-Hill – both of them from Sosa's Ljodahått is a tribute to Norwegian traditions in Magne Håvard Brekke composer, violin, vocals Cuban hometown Camagüey – and bass player literature and poetry. Hear poetry-based songs Ståle Caspersen composer, accordion, guitar, Childo Tomas from Mozambique. that blend elements of rock, folk, pop and jazz. piano, vocals Ljodahått, or ljóðaháttr in Old Norse, means troll Steven Forward bass guitar, vocals Sosa has previously been a great success at song or magical song, but can also be used to Jürg Kienberger composer, piano, organ, Norwegian jazz festivals. "Afro-Cuban virtuoso signify contradictive voices or sounds. accordion, home-made glass harp, vocals jazz...the technically brilliant Sosa created an Matthias Loibner composer, hurdy-gurdy, vocals Ljodahått presents Norwegian cultural heritage Afro-Cuban rhythm feast that only genuine Vidar Osmundsen guitar, piano, vocals interpreted through music and voice, and aim to practitioners of the genre can pull off: muscular, Laurent Petitgand composer, guitar, piano, vocals revitalise interest in Norwegian poetry, literature, macho and moonlit-alluring," according to the Eirik Mannsåker Roald cello, vocals language and culture among people at home and newspaper Dagbladet. Sébastien Souchois composer, alto sax, abroad. Their poetry-songs are performed only in baritone sax, piano, vocals Norwegian, no matter where they play, and some of Sam Walker composer, percussion, vocals them are performed by French, Swiss and German singers. Sponsored by Atea The group was described in the following words when they visited Edinburgh: “Think of something in between Arcade Fire and Leonard Cohen and

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two very different traditions: church music and m Gammalgrass gypsy music. This sets the stage for a sponta- m neous collaboration based on the joy of playing. Late Night Late Night Logen Giani Lincan is undoubtedly Romania's top Logen and friends cimbalom player, and comes from a gypsy

LOGEN TEATER family with a 300-year tradition as professional LOGEN TEATER musicians. He is probably the only musician on DATE/TIME Bluegrass, Norwegian folk dance, the festival programme that has entertained DATE/TIME Saturday 06 June baroque and gypsy music are the Monday 08 June at 22:00 Nicolae Ceauşescu and Saddam Hussein at ingredients in this evening's musical at 22:00 a gala in Bucharest. Ulf Nilsen, on keys, plays DURATION melting pot. the organ at Lovisenberg church in Oslo. He DURATION 2:00 including 1:30 including interval Norwegian newspaper VG describes the band improvises just as easily in a baroque style as interval as follows: "The trio Gammalgrass is a legen- in jazz – on the piano, cembalo and the organ. TICKET* TICKET* Full price: 290 dary live band, known for igniting frostbitten Full price: 290 Under 30: 150 Nordic souls with their fiery virtuosity and Under 30: 150 Gammalgrass ingenious musical humour. With a crew that *Festival card: Stian Carstensen accordion, banjo, pedal *Festival card: 40 %–30 % discount consists of fiddler Ola Kvernberg, multi-instru- steel guitar 40 %–30 % discount mentalist Stian Carstensen and bass player Ole Ola Kvernberg fiddle, viola Mortensen Vågan, this is hardly surprising." Ole Morten Vågan double bass This evening, Gammalgrass' favourite ambas- sadors of real-time musical improvisation join Ulf Nilsen piano, organ them on stage. Their two guests come from Giani Lincan cimbalom Oper Berlin in what Glorvigen describes as a Per Arne fortunate encounter in all senses of the word. Glorvigen The trio now plays together regularly. m The bandoneon player is famous for exten- HP ding the repertoire of this tango instrument wages in all kinds of clubs, and the quality is Trio to include baroque, klezmer, pop and contem- Late Night first-rate. I had a spiritual awakening," says porary music. His musical companions also Logen Gundersen HP. The concert also includes many of HP's have experience from early music to contem- friends. The seasoned musician promises porary music and tango. The trio brings a LOGEN TEATER plenty of surprises, and an evening filled Tango with Bach. programme partly taken from their new album, with friends with creativity, good songs and great vocal DATE/TIME Die Kunst der Fuge und des Tangos, to Logen Sunday 07 June performances. When musician and bandoneon player Per at 22:00 this evening. Arne Glorvigen was chosen as festival musi- DURATION HP Gundersen and The Last Hurrah!! cian at the Bergen International Festival in "In it we juxtapose Bach's masterpieces with The Last Hurrah!! with guests 3:00 including return with a new, American-inspired 2006, he was described as follows: standard tangos from the 1930s and 40s. In interval album. the end there is an amalgamation between Maesa Pullman vocals, guitar TICKET** "Per Arne Glorvigen is a musician and perfor- the two (initially) incompatible styles in Astor Heidi Torsvik vocals Full price: 350 When HP Gundersen – musician, producer ming artist in equal measures. Devoid of self- Piazzolla's tango fugues," says the bandoneon Under 30: 150 Henrik Paulsen guitar and long-time mentor in the Bergen music importance, full of humour and with a steady player. Willy Corneliussen percussion *Festival card: scene – went to Los Angeles to record a instinct, he draws the audience into a musical 40 %–30 % new album with his solo project The Last Mette Mathiesen percussion world that ranges from baroque to contem- discount Hurrah!! this autumn, he felt as if his career Øystein Skjælaaen bass porary, from Buenos Aires to Dovrefjell." Per Arne Glorvigen Trio got a brand new start. Jason Hiller double-bass, tambourine Per Arne Glorvigen bandoneon Kåre Sandvik keys At this concert he plays together with violinist Daniela Friedrich Braun violin "I met some people who have changed my Mari Peersen strings Daniela Friedrich Braun and Arnulf Ballhorn on Arnulf Ballhorn double bass life. L.A. has a great music scene. There is HP Gundersen pedal steel guitar double bass, whom he got to know at Komische nothing like it in Norway. People play for lousy

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Harald Eia, Nadina Bouhlou, Thorbjørn Harr text adaptation Svein Berge, Torbjørn Brundtland musicians, composition Anders Mordal direction Kafka feat. Dagny Drage Kleiva set design, costumes Torkel Skjærven lighting design Thorbjørn Harr, Jan Gunnar Røise Röyksopp actors King Sponsored by DNB Size t

World Electronica duo Röyksopp make their premiere stage debut with absurd Kafka comedy. DEN NATIONALE tm SCENE Did you know that Franz Kafka and his friends STORE SCENE split their sides laughing when he read aloud Scandinavian In an hotel room a couple is trying to over the last 30 years. His surreal and melan- from The Trial? Norwegian actors Thorbjørn DATE/TIME premiere sleep, only to find that their dreams and cholic performances often reveal people trying, Friday 29 May Harr and Jan Gunnar Røise have immersed at 19:30 their bed are both too big. but usually failing, to communicate. themselves in Kafka's humorous sides, and DEN NATIONALE Saturday 30 May present a new performance together with SCENE King Size is a ‘Liederabend’ about love, dreams Cast member Tora Augestad is from Bergen, STORE SCENE at 18:00 international electronica stars Röyksopp. and impossible communication. This is director and will also be performing in the world premi- DATE/TIME Christoph Marthaler at his best, with absurd ere of the opera Adam & Eve (see p. 64). Sunday 31 May A selection of Kafka's texts has been adapted at 19:30 Tuesday 02 June comedy, bittersweet love and music from for the performance, which explores numer- at 19:30 Schumann and Dowland, Wagner and Berg to DURATION ous characters and stories from his career as Wednesday 03 June The Kinks and The Jackson Five. Christoph Marthaler director 1:20 a writer. The texts and a score of original songs at 19:30 Bendix Dethleffsen music LANGUAGE lead us into this modern and hilarious version In composition, ‘enharmonic’ is a special way DURATION Duri Bischoff set design Played in of Kafka's universe. of redefining a tone as another. The technique Norwegian, English 1:15 HeidVoegelinLights lighting design has been very popular with composers of the text is available. Thorbjørn Harr and Jan Gunnar Røise are Sarah Schittek costume design LANGUAGE last two centuries. Not without reason – could well known names in Norwegian film and Performed in Malte Ubenauf dramaturge OTHER there be any idea of change which is closer to Talk (in Norwegian) theatre, and Harr has also worked in the US English, German, Regina Ketterer artistic liasion French, and other life than this one? Isn’t every human relationship with actors and lately. Röyksopp made their international bre- Tora Augestad, Bendix Dethleffsen, Michael musicians Sunday languages. Surtitles an enharmonic relationship of sorts? Every mar- akthrough with Melody AM (2002), which sold in Norwegian and von der Heide, Nikola Weisse cast 31 May at 14:00 at riage, every secret love, every kiss? the Bergen Public more than a million copies worldwide. English. Library. TICKET* Christoph Marthaler and his ensemble perform Supported by Pro Helvetia TICKET* Full price: 290–390 keyhole surgery on the brain while it’s in the Under 30: 150 Full price: 290–390 middle of enharmonic decisions: in its sleep. Under 30: 150 *Festival card: *Festival card: 40 %–30 % discount Christoph Marthaler has been one of the most 40 %–30 % discount prominent figures in European music theatre

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Get to know Bach – the man who created RECOMMENDED AGES Children & Youth such beautiful music, had many children 6 and up and loved wigs and cake. Programme LANGUAGE Norwegian

TICKETS úmd Under 16: 90 Full price: 150 Supported by Grieg Foundation Festival Youth Day Hotel A fun and unexpected story about being LOGEN TEATER brave and good enough just the way you ú DATE/TIME are, based on the story of Peer Gynt. Paradiso Tuesday 02 June at 10:00 Festival Square DURATION 5:00 tú Outdoors RECOMMENDED AGES More Max FESTPLASSEN 6 and up

DATE/TIME TICKETS GRIEGHALLEN Saturday 30 May–Saturday 06 June Admission free KLOKKEKLANG tú A crime drama packed with action, Weekdays 14:00–17:30 DATE/TIME black humour, raging emotions, and Weekends 11:00–17:00 Experience young performing arts – music, DEN NATIONALE Saturday 06 June at 12:00 and 14:00 excellent masque. OTHER dance, theatre and visual arts – at this open SCENE all-day performance. DURATION STORE SCENE Opening with mini concerts Strange incidents occur at the pleasant skiing Saturday 30 May at 11:00 0:40

DATE/TIME establishment Hotel Paradiso. The hotel is run RECOMMENDED AGES RECOMMENDED AGES Monday 08 June by a family whose members all carry secrets: All 0–3 at 18:00 tú The maid is a kleptomaniac and the chef is a tad TICKETS TICKETS Tuesday 09 June too fond of mincing meat ­– and not only meat Produced by Familie Flöz, Theater Duisburg, Admission free Festival Youth Performance Under 16: 90 Full price: 150 at 18:00 from animals. In the middle of this love drama Theaterhaus Bring your family to Festplassen in the city GRIEGHALLEN DURATION and power struggle, corpses start turning up. centre and experience new worlds of sound, PEER GYNT-SALEN A classic for the very young based on Bar- 1:20 Will the guests notice anything? Is there any explore colour and various installations. bro Lindgren’s picture books. By Anna Kistel, Frederik Rohn, Hajo Schüler, DATE/TIME chance of avoiding the hotel's downfall? Tuesday 02 June at 18:00 RECOMMENDED Michael Vogel, Nicolas Witte, Sponsored by Statoil AGES Sebastian Kautz, Thomas Rascher DURATION 10 and up The stage is set for a display of intrigue and 1:15 m ú Michael Vogel direction humour à la John Cleese's Fawlty Towers. Supported by the Kavli Trust TICKET* Hajo Schüler, Thomas Rascher masks RECOMMENDED AGES Family Day at Siljustøl Critics all over Europe have been mesmerized 6 and up Full price: 250–350 Michael Ottopal set design Under 30: 150 by the pace and precision of this production. SILJUSTØL Eliseu R. Weide costumes TICKETS The German ensemble Familie Flöz have spe- Full price: 100 DATE/TIME *Festival card: cialised in entertaining performances for the Reinhard Hubert lighting design Under 16: 50 Sunday 07 June at 12:00 40 %–30 % discount. tú whole family, and their productions are a mix Dirk Schröder sound design DURATION Silke Meyer graphics Bach for Kids The finest young talents in Western Nor- 4:00 of physical comedy, masque and mime. Without way have been handpicked for this gala Sylvan Faye, Florian Mönks technicians spoken words, but with breathtaking body lan- BERGEN DOMKIRKE performance. RECOMMENDED AGES guage and expressive masques, the audience Gianni Bettucci production manager All Anna Kistel, Sebastian Kautz, Daniel Matheus, DATE/TIME is drawn into their dark and humorous tales. Sunday 31 May at 17:00 TICKETS Nicolas Witte cast tú Admission free The play is suitable for adults and older children. DURATION 1:00 Go exploring with the whole family on com- Liv, You’re Lying! poser Harald Sæverud’s beautiful estate! “Wordless and yet somehow so expressive, Supported by Grieg Foundation RECOMMENDED AGES

full of yearning and yet also filled with joy; this 8 and up GRIEGHALLEN PEER GYNT-SALEN is splendid and immensely skillful character LANGUAGE Supported by the Kavli Trust

comedy.”– THE GUARDIAN Norwegian DATE/TIME Thursday 04 June at 17:00 TICKETS See also Family Concert with Cateura (p. Under 16: 90 DURATION 11), iD with Cirque Éloize (p. 23), Hotel Full price: 150 0:45 Paradiso (p. 26), The Sheep (p. 28) and Rival vs. Rival (p. 29).

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DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Sheep Friday 29 May Saturday 30 May at 18:00 Workshops DURATION 11.00–15.00 3:00 Graffiti wall Admission free from 12.00 Open dance floor 13.00–15.00 tú A charm offensive from contact- COMPETITION seeking sheep. 15.00–17.00 Outdoors OTHER NYGÅRDS- You might think that a sheep’s life is pretty To enter the competition, PARKEN uneventful, but that is where you are wrong! visit www.fib.no/rival. In this clever and funny outdoor performance Tickets are also available DATE/TIME at the door. Food and Sunday 31 May the audience gains insight into the real world beverages can be at 12:00 og 15:00 of sheep. purchased at the venue. NB! Cash only. DURATION A flock of sheep and a ram have flown from 0:30 TICKET Canada to Bergen and have settled down in rural Full price: 90 RECOMMENDED surroundings. But all is not quiet and peaceful Outdoor Rival Children: 60 AGES in this pastoral scene: intense love triangles All programme are in store, and there is milking, shearing and Admission free grazing to be done – not to mention the wolf! vs. Rival

The performance about the sheep is engaging, During the Festival, the city is filled with music, wordless and surprising, and has received humour, stunts and surprises. DJs, dancers, cir- awards in several countries. The actors’ fan- cus artists and a number of guerilla musicians tastic body language and the surreal humour will bring the city centre to life throughout the A two-day happening with a free out- floor at Fysak on 30 May. The competition is have gained high repute. Festival period. doors show, hip hop workshops, and aimed at those over sixteen while the workshops a national breakdance competition. welcome children down to the age of six. See also The Sheep on this page, Opening David Danzon og Sylvie Bouchard Ceremony (p. 6), Festival Square (p. 27), Every year, about a thousand breakers from all This year, on the night before the competition, concept, choreography Midnight Reflection (p. 31), The Provocateur over South America gather for a day of battling you are also invited to a superb outdoors show Joanne Leblanc costumes (p. 76) and Kamchàtka (p. 76). and hip-hop in São Paulo, Brazil. The origina- in the centre of Bergen. Well known dance David Danzon artistic direction tors of this concept are the AfroBreak Crew, a crews, DJs and several bands gather for three Isorine Marc artistic producer Please visit www.fib.no/outdoors for a full over- group that was formed through the aid of Kolibri hours of great atmosphere in the square outside view of the outdoor programme. – Children At Risk Foundation and the preven- Grieghallen. Supported by Grieg Foundation tative work they do in the Brazilian metropolis. and the Kavli Trust In association with Kolibri Supported by Grieg Foundation The AfroBreak Crew brings their concept to the – Children At Risk Foundation. and the Kavli Trust Bergen, arranging a Norwegian version of Rival vs. Rival as part of the festival programme. Last year’s winners were the locally based Absence Supported by Grieg Foundation Crew. In addition to the competition, there will be and the Kavli Trust dance and graffiti workshops and an open dance

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ASKØY On the Pacific islands, emotional choral song m d HERDLA KIRKE Let Audun Iversen and Lina Johnson in village churches is an important part of DATE/TIME take you into the world of opera. everyday life. Pasifika Voices' repertoire spans Outdoors A light show around Lille Lunge- Friday 29 May at 18:00 many styles, and for this particular concert they gårdsvann – with Grieg in your ear. The two Norwegian opera stars Audun Iversen have put together a programme based on the World DURATION and Lina Johnson are a couple, and they both Experience a luminous outdoor concert in the 1:40 including islanders' deep religious roots. premiere interval perform regularly at venues all over the world. magical midnight hour. Pasifika Voices is led by Tuilagi Igelese Ete, a LILLE AUSTEVOLL At Askøy and Austevoll they will perform opera LUNGEGÅRDS- Sven Sören Beyer from phase 7, the group behind Midnight Reflection – A Silent Concert Samoan composer, arranger and conductor, who VANN HENGJO, hits by composers such as Verdi, Rossini and the multimedia performance Murmuration at the Sven Sören Beyer artistic direction, concept BEKKJARVIK is known as the choirmaster in the film series HAMN Mozart, languorous operettas by Lehár and Lord of the Rings. Through song we glimpse DATE/TIME Bergen International Festival in 2013, returns to and lighting design songs by Grieg. Saturday 06 June Bergen. The German artist transforms the small Björn Hermann lighting design DATE/TIME the young singers' family histories and culture. at 24:00 Saturday 30 May lake into a light sculpture accompanied by a Lydia Klement choreography at 18:00 These concerts are a gateway to the world of DURATION concert that can only be heard through a special Pedro Richter costume and stage design opera for those who want to experience some 1:00 DURATION Pasifika Voices set of headphones. Frieder Weiss software art of the best the genre has to offer. Hear great 1:40 including Tuilagi Igelese Ete conductor, arranger OTHER Ellen Wölk project management interval voices that have thrilled audiences far beyond Purchase tickets The score – Grieg's very own Piano Concerto TICKET* the Norwegian border. in advance to in A minor and a new work by Per Nørgård – is World premiere commissioned by A collaboration between the Bergen save time. You Full price: 290 taken from the concert Nordic Prism earlier the the Bergen International Festival. Under 30: 150 Askøy and Austevoll are two island municipa- International Festival, The University of can borrow headphones at same evening. lities near Bergen with gorgeous scenery and Bergen and University of the South Pacific. *Festival card: Festplassen upon A co-production by the Bergen International 40 %–30 % discount a long tradition in fisheries. presenting your "We create an atmosphere to suit the music, Festival and phase7. ticket. Headphones not disturb it. It will be a kind of visualisation can be picked up of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor in which from 21:30, and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra should be returned we mix high tech and projections with lanterns, Andrew Manze conductor Choral Extravaganza after the concert. dancers, paddlers and perhaps even an oselver You cannot Peter Herresthal violin – a traditional Norwegian rowing boat. I am inte- m at Moster Amfi use your own Jakob Kullberg cello headphones. rested in triggering feelings through advanced Bømlo is an island in Sunnhordland, a little less Ronald Brautigam piano BØMLO technology," says Beyer, who also created the than three-hour drive south of Bergen. TICKET MOSTER AMFI Full price: 90 grand programme for the 25th anniversary of Exciting encounter in the unique the fall of the Berlin Wall last year. PER NØRGÅRD (1932–) DATE/TIME open-air amphitheatre. Double concert for violin, cello and orchestra Saturday 30 May World premiere commissioned by the Bergen Internati- at 18:00 Herborg Kråkevik vocals Bring something to sit on, settle down by the water onal Festival, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra In the 1980s the old limestone mine was transfor- DURATION Jan Eggum vocals with headphones on and let the festival mood set in , and New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1:00 med into what is probably Northern Europe's finest Michael Bojesen musical director in. Get ready to enjoy music in a new setting! EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) amphitheatre, and since then it has been a popular Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 TICKET* Bergen Pikekor Full price: 290 concert venue. The two popular artists Herborg Ten Sing Bømlo Nordic Prism and Midnight Reflection – A Silent Under 30: 150 Kråkevik and Jan Eggum bring three local choirs Bremnes kantori Concert are part of the festival's celebration Supported by H. Westfal-Larsen og Hustru *Festival card: with them as their perform songs from their own of Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra's 250-year Anna Westfal-Larsen's Almennyttige Fond 40 %–30 % discount repertoire as well as current choral works. anniversary.

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Il Pomo d’Oro Riccardo Minasi conductor, violin Nordic

Juan Sancho Catone Franco Fagioli Cesare prism Max Emanuel Cencic Arbace Catone in Ray Chenez Marzia Vince Yi Emilia Utica Martin Mitterrutzner Fulvio with Grieg’s A LEONARDO VINCI (1680–1730) minor Concerto Catone in Utica m Powerplay and love from Europe's m best countertenors. GRIEGHALLEN An entirely Nordic programme The programme also contains ’s Scandinavian The Italian baroque composer Leonardo Vinci GRIEGSALEN with the 250-year-old Bergen Floating, an early work dedicated to his fellow premiere was known for his attractive opera buffa arias in DATE/TIME Philharmonic Orchestra composer Per Nørgård, which was named Work GRIEGHALLEN Neapolitan dialect, and – incidentally – is said to Saturday 06 June of the Year by the Norwegian Composer’s GRIEGSALEN have died from poisoning by a jealous husband at 19:30 Collaboration with the Bergen Philharmonic Association in 1971. Orchestra goes all the way back to the start of DATE/TIME in the wake of an ill-advised affair. DURATION Monday 01 June 2:05 including the Bergen International Festival in 1953, along at 19:30 The opera Catone in Utica also tells a drama- interval with another tradition: Grieg’s A minor Piano Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra tic love story. It was first performed in Rome Concerto. This year’s soloist, Ronald Brautigam Andrew Manze conductor DURATION OTHER Peter Herresthal violin 2:50 including in 1728, at a time when the pope had banned See also Midnight from the Netherlands, plays the original version interval women from performing on stage. The female Reflection p. 31 of the work. Jakob Kullberg cello parts were played by the great castrato opera Ronald Brautigam piano OTHER TICKET* This evening’s Nordic concert opens with Jean Introduction stars of the time. Full price: 190–470 (in Norwegian) Under 30: 150 Sibelius’s original final symphony consisting of Åse Kleveland host by Gunnar Danbolt The Bergen International Festival presents a a single movement. Sibelius is followed by the at 18:45 concert version of Catone in Utica, performed *Festival card: world premiere of the great Danish composer 40 %–30 % discount (1865–1957) TICKET* by an all-male cast for the first time since Per Nørgård: his Double Concerto for Violin, Symphony no. 7 in C major, op. 105 Full price: 190–490 Vinci's own era. The castrato parts are played Cello and orchestra is performed by Peter PER NØRGÅRD (1932–) Under 30: 150 by countertenors, including the celebrated sin- Herresthal and Jakob Kullberg, who have both Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (world premiere, commissioned by the Bergen *Festival card: gers Franco Fagioli and Max Emanuel Cencic. worked in close collaboration with the compo- International Festival, the Danish National Symphony 40 %–30 % discount They are accompanied by one of today's most ser for several years, and have toured inter- Orchestra, Copenhagen and the New York interesting early music ensembles, Il Pomo nationally with him. Peter Herresthal always Philharmonic Orchestra) ARNE NORDHEIM (1931–2010) d'Oro, conducted by Riccardo Minasi. faces a premiere with a mixture of apprehension Floating and delight. EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 ‘In a premiere you step straight into an important occasion – such as this concert to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Bergen Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation Philharmonic Orchestra – without the safety and the Oticon Foundation net of experience,’ says the violinist.

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Leif Ove Andsnes & Friends II Leif Ove Leif Ove Sibeliusiana Andsnes & m Andsnes &

Friends I LOGEN TEATER TICKET* Friends III Full price: 350 Debussy, Mozart DATE/TIME Under 30: 150 Bartók, & Fauré Wednesday 03 June Tchaikovsky & Brahms at 21:00 *Festival card: DURATION 40 %–30 % discount m 1:40 including interval m

HÅKONSHALLEN GRIEGHALLEN TICKET* In 2015 it is 150 years since the great OTHER Full price: 400 GRIEGSALEN Introduction in DATE/TIME Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was Monday 01 June Under 30: 150 DATE/TIME Norwegian at 19:30 born in Tavastehus. Leif Ove Andsnes Sunday 07 June by Erling Dahl jr. *Festival card: explains, 'For this Sibelius anniversary at 20:00 at 19:15 DURATION 40 %–30 % discount 1:35 including interval I have compiled a programme that I DURATION TICKET* have always dreamt of: piano pieces, 2:00 including Full price: 190–450 OTHER interval Under 30: 150 Introduction in Norwegian chamber music and not least his melo- by Erling Dahl jr at 18:55 dramas in music and words. More than *Festival card: 40 %–30 % discount anything it makes me feel at home in the Nordic countries.' Leif Ove Andsnes says, 'Debussy's 'Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence is fabulous violin and cello sonatas are ecstatic, Brahms is even more sombre the features that link the works in this Leif Ove Andsnes piano and melancholic than usual, and Bartók concert. Two of Debussy's favourite Håvard Gimse piano combines the violin and piano in the Leif Ove Andsnes composers are also represented: Fauré, Ragnhild Hemsing violin most fascinating ways. These are three with his grandiose first Piano Quartet, Melina Mandozzi violin gems, and I'm really looking forward to and Mozart, in one of his finest chamber Jutta Morgenstern violin them!' says Leif Ove Andsnes. & Friends music pieces, the in E major.' Hayato Naka violin Ellen Nisbeth viola Ilze Klava viola Leif Ove Andsnes piano Leif Ove Andsnes piano Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen cello Akiko Suwanai violin Håvard Gimse piano Torleif Thedéen cello Ragnhild Hemsing violin In the concert series Leif Ove Andsnes This mentoring project is now being further Akiko Suwanai violin Ragnild H Lothe horn Ellen Nisbeth viola and Friends, we present a broad developed, and we have the pleasure of pre- Ragnhild Hemsing violin Maria Wøllo Flaate horn Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola spectrum of chamber music with senting a series of concerts with three mentors Ellen Nisbeth viola Frank Skog recitation Torleif Thedéen cello established celebrities and upcoming and four talented musicians. At the forefront is Torleif Thedéen cello Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen cello Norwegian talent. Leif Ove Andsnes, and his fellow mentors are Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen cello the Swedish cellist Torleif Thedéen and the LEOŠ JANÁČEK (1854–1928) In 2014 the Bergen International Festival ini- Japanese violinist Akiko Suwanai, accompanied Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for Cello and Piano, JW 7/5 BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945) tiated an entirely new project in which Leif Ove (1862–1918) ERNST VON DOHNÁNYI (1862–1918) Sonata no. 2 for Violin and Piano, Sz. 76, BB 85 by Håvard Gimse on the piano. The four young Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor, L 140 Andsnes collaborated with rising Norwegian Serenade for Violin, Viola and Cello in C major, op. 10 (1840–1893) musicians are Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola), Sonata for Cello and Piano no. 1 in D minor, L 135 JEAN SIBELIUS (1865–1957) Souvenir de Florence in D major, op. 70 stars. The result was a chamber music concert Ragnhild Hemsing (violin), Frida Fredrikke Waaler (1756–1791) Piano pieces (1833–1897) Piano Trio no. 4 in E major, K. 542 in Grieghallen, which received an overwhelming Wærvågen (cello) and Ellen Nisbeth (viola). All Nights of Jealousy, JS 125 Piano Quartet no. 3 in C minor, op. 60 Sponsored by GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845–1924) From Cinq Danses Champêtres, for Violin reception, with superlatives in the press and have won several national and international Piano Quartet no. 1 in C minor, op. 15 Statoil and Piano, op. 106 standing ovations. awards and have performed at the Bergen A Lonely Ski-Trail, JS 77b International Festival. The Wood Nymph, op. 15​

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Scandinavian An expression of love to the power premiere of myth, music and dance. Sasha Waltz director, choreographer Alexander Schwarz set design GRIEGHALLEN This exquisite performance of Orfeo is based on GRIEGSALEN Beate Borrmann costume design Claudio Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo. The driving Martin Hauk lighting design DATE/TIME force behind it is the German choreographer Tapio Snellman video Wednesday 10 June and director Sasha Waltz, renowned for her at 18:00 monumental crossover performances. Torsten Johann musical director, conductor DURATION Freiburger BarockConsort 2:30 including ‘This performance is about the power of love – a Vocalconsort Berlin interval force that transcends death. As the narrative Ensemble Sasha Waltz & Guests grips us, we travel with Orfeo through the entire LANGUAGE Performed in Italian. spectrum of emotions, from the intoxication of Anna Lucia Richter Euridice (Eurydice), Surtitles in infatuation to the devastation of heartbreak. Norwegian and La Musica (Music) The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice – and pos- English. Georg Nigl Orfeo (Orpheus) sibly this performance in particular – is also a Charlotte Hellekant La Messaggiera OTHER tribute to art itself,’ says Sasha Waltz. Introduction (in (Messenger), La Speranza (Hope) Danish) by Henrik Douglas Williams Caronte (Charon) Engelbrecht The performance, which Waltz describes as at 17:15 a choreographed opera, is a fusion of music, Luciana Mancini Proserpina (Proserpine) singing and dance. Members of the chorus and Konstantin Wolff Plutone (Pluto) TICKET* Cécile Kempenaers Ninfa (Nymph), Full price: 250–800 instrumental ensemble, soloists and dancers Under 30: 150 are all handpicked on the basis of their ability Pastore 1 (Shepherd) to express themselves across the boundaries Julián Millán Apollo, Eco (Echo), *Festival card: Pastore 4 (Shepherd) 40 %–30 % discount of genre. They complement one another and move as a single entity. Kaspar Kröner Pastore 2 (Shepherd), Spirito (Infernal Spirit) Sasha Waltz’s predilection for early music has led Kevin Skelton Pastore 3 (Shepherd), her to collaborate with several baroque ensem- Spirito (Infernal Spirit) bles, but this is her first time with the renowned Hans Wijers Pastore 5 (Shepherd), Freiburger BarockConsort. The music is honest Spirito (Infernal Spirit) and direct, sensitive and passionate; the dancing is indescribably beautiful. A co-production by the Bergen International Festival, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Dutch National Opera, the Theatres of the City of Luxembourg and the Lille Opera.

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The Danish String Quartet Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen violin Frederik Øland violin Asbjørn Nørgaard viola Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin cello

Christian Ihle Hadland piano Nordic SCANDINAVIAN TRADIONAL FOLK MUSIC Excerpt from Wood Works arr. The Danish String Quartet CARL NIELSEN (1865–1931) Soloist String Quartet no. 4 in F minor, op. 44 JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34 Finals

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answer is somewhere near to playing Brahms's HÅKONSHALLEN Attend the exciting finals of the The Danish Piano Quintet. At this Bergen International Nordic Soloist Award. DATE/TIME Festival concert he is the soloist with the Saturday 30 May String Quartet Danish String Quartet, an ensemble sparkling at 20:00 'Participating in competitions like this is inspi- with energy that has received international ring and great fun,' says trombonist Endre DURATION symphony orchestras in each of the coun- acclaim for its intense interpretations of the Rydland Vetås. He is the Norwegian candidate 2:15 tries selecting their candidate. This year's jury classics. Both the string quartet and Christian for the coveted prize of 100 000 NOK, and on consists of violinist Kaija Saarikettu from the Ihle Hadland have been BBC Radio 3 New OTHER this Saturday evening he encounters his Nordic m and Christian Each candidate Sibelius Academy, clarinettist Andreas Sundén Generation Artists. rivals in the televised final concert. has a recital at from Sveriges Radio, and from Norway trombo- HÅKONSHALLEN Ihle Hadland Troldhaugen before The Danish String Quartet has recorded several the finale, see p. 56. There are more wind players in this year's nist Sverre Riise and conductor Eivind Gullberg DATE/TIME critically acclaimed albums of Carl Nielsen's competition: Magnus Holmander (Sweden, born Jensen. Restrained savagery, revelations and TICKET* Thursday 28 May music, and in recent years they have also 1993) is a clarinettist, and Eva Steinaa (Denmark, at 19:30 folk tunes. Full price: 320 shared their fascination for Scandinavian folk Under 30: 150 born 1993) plays the oboe. Jonathan Roozeman (Finland, born 1997) and Eva Thórarinsdóttir The prize is based on a donation by indus- DURATION 'There is plenty of fabulous music,' says music. In 2014 they released a CD of popular 1:40 including *Festival card: (Iceland, born 1986) play the cello and violin trialist Bernt Fossum, and the competition is Christian Ihle Hadland, 'but even so there are Nordic folk tunes. 40 %–30 % discount interval respectively. The stage is set for a varied and arranged in association with the Norwegian not many pieces that are a revelation every thrilling concert, in which all the candidates Broadcasting Corporation NRK and its clas- OTHER time. This is 150-year-old music that feels as Introduction (in Supported by the Oticon Foundation aim to demonstrate the diverse aspects of their sics programme Hovedscenen NRK 2. if it were written yesterday. My experience Norwegian) by instruments and why they deserve to take first Gunnar Danbolt of Brahms's Piano Quintet is like eating fish place in this demanding contest. at 18:55 straight from the sea or biting into a loaf fresh Sponsored by DNV GL Supported by the Nordic Culture Fund and Oticon Foundation TICKET* from the oven.' Every year since 2004 the Norwegian Soloist Full price: 400 Prize has been awarded at the Bergen Under 30: 150 When the Norwegian world-class pianist occa- International Festival. In 2011 the competition Sponsored by DNV GL​ sionally wonders what it is like to sit amidst *Festival card: was opened to all Nordic countries, with major 40 %–30 % discount a resounding orchestra, he imagines that the

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DURATION 2:20 including ALEKSANDR BORODIN (1833–1887) interval String Quartet no. 2 in D major (1906–1975) OTHER String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110 Introduction (in PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893) Norwegian) by String Quartet no. 2 in F major, op. 22​ Gunnar Danbolt at 18:55

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Les Arts Paul Agnew explains that the great Eighth Book of Madrigals is really two books, one on war and m one on love. They are monumental in size, being Borodin Florissants HÅKONSHALLEN twice as long as any of his other madrigal books; String they are a monument to Monteverdi's long DATE/TIME career and a monument to the madrigal itself, Tuesday 02 June at 19:30 Quartet which many at the time viewed as an outdated the Borodin Quartet is in a class of its own. The The French vocal and instrumental phenomenon, superseded by the operatic aria. DURATION Telegraph described the experience thus: '… 1:45 including ensemble rounds off a tour lasting listening to the Quartet play Shostakovich's Today the book is considered to be at the fore- interval several years with a concert of First and Eighth quartets, it was impossible to front of the genre. Some of the pieces are writ- Monteverdi madrigals at the Bergen OTHER resist an uncanny sense of being taken back ten for music theatre, and Les Arts Florissants Introduction in International Festival. to the root of something. You could say this perform them partially staged. Norwegian by Erling Dahl jr. at 18:55 was just the magic effect of a near-mythical Over recent years Les Arts Florissants have Russian masters in the programme reputation, but there is something special in the worked with Monteverdi's entire madrigal TICKET* and on stage. Les Arts Florissants Borodin Quartet's sound which would persuade collections under the leadership of its asso- Full price: 400 Paul Agnew musical direction, tenor Under 30: 150 even an innocent listener.' ciate conductor, the tenor Paul Agnew. When The legendary Borodin String Quartet was Hannah Morrison soprano they visited the Bergen International Festival *Festival card: founded in Moscow in 1945 by a group of music Miriam Allan soprano The Bergen International Festival concert is in 2012, the local newspaper described their 40 %–30 % discount students, acquiring a unique position in the Lucile Richardot contralto part of a worldwide tour to celebrate the 70th performance with superlatives: 'the delivery Soviet Union. The ensemble played at Stalin's Stéphanie Leclercq contralto anniversary of the quartet. was animated and full of drama, and reached funeral, and Shostakovich always consulted Sean Clayton tenor all extremities of dynamic breadth. An exciting them when he wrote string quartets. During 'Here we have not four individual players, but a Cyril Costanzo bass ensemble with excellent communication skills the cold war the Borodin Quartet was one of single sixteen-stringed instrument of great vir- Antonio Abete bass and a vibrant performance of the pop music of the best-known Soviet ensembles in the west, tuosity.' – FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG four hundred years ago!' touring the USA and Europe. Supported by Institut français In Håkonshallen eight singers and eleven instru- The seventieth anniversary programme this mentalists will perform Madrigals of Love from year exclusively features Russian composers, Sponsored by DNV GL Monteverdi's eighth and last Book of madrigals. Sponsored by DNV GL with Shostakovich taking pride of place. Here

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Quatuor Diotima Vivaldi Yun-Peng Zhao violin Quatuor Constance Ronzatti violin Franck Chevalier viola – Concerti a Pierre Morlet cello Diotima

due Jörg Widmann clarinet (1797–1828) with Jörg Widmann String Quartet no. 9 in G minor, D173 BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945) String Quartet no. 3, Sz.85 with Amandine Beyer JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) The French ensemble Quatuor Diotima & Gli Incogniti Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115 loves concerts with contrasts. 'We always try to play classical pieces as if no Double Vivaldi. one has ever heard them before, and newer music as if it were being performed 200 years Antonio Vivaldi was among the composers who m ago,' says viola player Franck Chevalier. firmly established the genreconcerto, in which one or more soloists are accompanied by an HÅKONSHALLEN The quartet's programmes always consist of orchestra. A celebrated violinist himself, he music from several eras, and in Håkonshallen DATE/TIME they perform works by Schubert, Bartók and m composed over four hundred , most Sunday 07 June of them for the violin. at 19:30 Brahms. HÅKONSHALLEN Gli Incogniti Vivaldi is said to have boasted that he could Amandine Beyer leader, violin DURATION Franck Chevalier continues: 'Playing music DATE/TIME Alba Roca violin 1:40 including from such different worlds creates a fabulous Friday 05 June compose a concerto faster than anyone could interval at 19:30 write out the parts. In his own time he was so Camille Ranciére violin atmosphere. The great contrasts mean that popular that pirate copies of his works were Ottavia Rausa viola OTHER the unique aspect of each work becomes DURATION Marco Ceccato cello Introduction in more apparent. Schubert's music is delicate 1:30 including on sale. His double concertos, of which several Norwegian by interval are performed at this concert, are considered Francesco Romano theorboe Gunnar Danbolt and sensitive, Bartók's is solid and articulate, particularly virtuoso. Anna Fontana harpsichord at 18:55 and Brahms's quintet is at one and the same OTHER Baldomero Barciela double bass time clear and cloudy.' Introduction in TICKET* Norwegian by The critically acclaimed French baroque violi- Full price: 400 Gunnar Danbolt nist Amandine Beyer founded her ensemble Gli Giuliano Carmignola violin Under 30: 150 Quatuor Diotima, established in 1999, is known at 18:55 Incogniti in 2006, and among their CDs is their for its untraditional style, a high level of energy *Festival card: and passion in performance. 'One of the five TICKET* recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. This is the ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678–1741) 40 %–30 % discount Full price: 400 first time the ensemble visits Norway. Sinfonia from the opera L'Olimpiade, RV725 quartets you should know about,' according Under 30: 150 Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, RV514 to Gramophone. Giuliano Carmignola, who comes from Venice, Concerto for Cello and Violin in B flat major, RV547 *Festival card: Sinfonia from the opera D’Arsilda, regina di Ponto, The soloist, Jörg Widmann, is not only a clari- 40 %–30 % discount Vivaldi's home town, is also an acclaimed RV700 and Giga, RV316 interpreter of his music and has made several Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, RV523 nettist but also a composer and ardent chamber recordings of it. Concerto for Two Violins in D major, RV513 musician. He has premiered several clarinet Sponsered by DNV GL concertos dedicated to him.

Gramophone was impressed by both soloists, Sponsered by DNV GL describing Amandine Beyer as 'quite somet- hing' and Giuliano Carmignola as 'a wonderfully accomplished player [giving] an outstanding solo performance.'

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Bergen Cathedral Choir (Bergen Domkor) Kjetil Almenning conductor Marianne Beate Kielland mezzo-soprano Siri Hilmen cello Bjørnar Habbestad flute Hans Knut Sveen keyboard instruments

A co-production by the Bergen International Festival, Bergen Domkor and Kirkemusikk i Bergen​

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DURATION noting the connection with the Latin word for 1:15 sea – 'mare' – made the Virgin Mother their TICKET* Bergen Cathedral Choir and mezzo- patron saint. Their guiding light in navigation Full price: 290 soprano Marianne Beate Kielland are was also named Stella Maris. The Gregorian Under 30: 150 guided by the Star of the Sea. chant Ave maris stella thus bears connotations *Festival card: with the star, the sea and the mother of all. But 40 %–30 % discount Navigation, travelling and longing have always all seafaring has another aspect: when someone been sources of inspiration for artists and leaves on a journey, others sit at home waiting … myth-makers. The bright North Star, also known as Polaris, has led the way for travellers for In the concert Stella Maris Kjetil Almenning thousands of years, and has in the course of and Bergen Cathedral Choir have invited a time acquired associations with religious and Norwegian star, the mezzo-soprano Marianne mythical symbols. Beate Kielland, to contribute to a programme ranging from George Frideric Handel to Edvard www.norclub.no In the Christian faith the guiding star is associa- Grieg and from Gaelic tradition to recently com- ted with Mary, the mother of Jesus. Seafarers, posed music.

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Ole Bull’s Lysøen homes Christopher Tun Andersen with Gunnar Flagstad

LYSØEN DURATION 1 :00 DATE/TIME Saturday 30 May at 11:30 & 14:30

'It is no coincidence that the music of both Ole Bull and Niccolo Paganini feature in this programme. had high regard for Ole Bull's playing, as he did for Paganini's. Both violinists have composed extremely Elise & Henninge virtuoso works, vying with each other to produce the best technical innovations Båtnes and challenges,' says the young violinist LYSØEN

Christopher Tun Andersen. DATE/TIME Sunday 31 May at 11:30 & 14:30 Accompanied by Gunnar Flagstad on the piano he performs works including DURATION 1 :00 Ole Bull's demanding Bellini Variations in the composer's fairy-tale castle. The Båtnes sisters invade Lysøen with regard to period and charac- with Bull, Thommessen, Nordheim ter. Even though the instruments The beautiful villa on Lysøen – the Island of Herresthal explains: ‘The theme running through Christopher has been the Norwegian m and Mozart on the programme. themselves are relatively small, the Light – was built in 1873 as a summer residence this series of concerts is the Norwegian composer contestant in some of the world's combination has unfathomed power for Ole Bull, the Norwegian violin virtuoso and Olav Anton Thommessen. With a twinkle in his greatest violin competitions, and he LYSØEN 'I am really looking forward to giving a and expressivity in store. The pro- composer. It is something of a fairy-tale castle eye he has incorporated Bergen composers and performs virtuoso repertoire with an concert with my sister; it's always par- gramme ranges from Mozart to the TICKET* with its onion domes and intricate ornamenta­ other celebrities into his music. During the festival exuberance rarely heard in Norway. Full price: 600 ticularly enjoyable,' says Elise Båtnes. present day, which will hopefully give tion. For many, the boat journey to the island we can experience miniature performances from He arrives in Bergen direct from a solo Under 30: 150 the audience a rounded experience,' Transportation culminating in a concert in Ole Bull’s unorthodox several fancifully entitled works: Bulls'hit (for vio- performance in Berlin of Sinding's Elise and Henninge are respectively says the violinist. included in the sitting room is a valued tradition. Ole Bull’s villa lin), the virtuoso piece EingeBacht, the grandiose virtuoso A minor suite, which is also concert master and principal viola ticket. More on the Lysøen programme, along with information on at Valestrand on the isle of Osterøy is another sE Det VAR Det (meaning ‘Look, that’s it’, but note in the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. page 84. Festival venue. The architecture is heavily influ- what the capitals spell), built over Grieg’s Ballade, an Olav Anton Thommessen world They have played together in the Elise Båtnes violin enced by National Romanticism, and was among and his fabulous Mendelssohn-inspired Piano Trio premiere and works by Brahms and award-winning Vertavo Quartet and Henninge Båtnes Landaas viola *Festival card: Wienawski. 40 %–30 % discount the first houses in Norway designed in dragon Scherzofonia/Scherzofrenia, which has been their CD of duos received high critical style. The house became an important artistic performed only once before, at the 1982 Bergen acclaim. They have long experience meet­ing place in Ole Bull’s lifetime. International Festival.’ Christopher Tun Andersen violin as chamber musicians and soloists, Gunnar Flagstad piano and both have toured internationally. Many of this year’s Festival concerts at Lysøen, Valestrand, Siljustøl and Troldhaugen are Supported by the Anders Sveaas 'Repertoire is of course limited for curated by professor Peter Herresthal at the Charitable Foundation In association with the violin and viola as a duo, but it is Norwegian Academy of Music. Norwegian Academy of Music great fun to play such varied music

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TICKET* Full price: 500 Under 30: 150 In Harald Transportation Ernst Simon Chris​​ tian included in the ticket. Sæverud's More information on Randi Stene beautiful home Glaser Hundsnes page 84. with Håvard SILJUSTØL *Festival card: Intimate Concert Grøvlen 40 %–30 % discount Gimse DATE/TIME SILJUSTØL with Andsnes Saturday 30 May at 15:00 TROLDHAUGEN DURATION DATE/TIME GRIEG’S VILLA & Friends 1:00 Saturday 06 June at 15:00 DATE/TIME TROLDHAUGEN DURATION Friday 29 & Saturday 30 May at 22:30 'Lene Grenager's Der Bach an der Quelle 1:00 GRIEG’S VILLA (Bach at the source) is inspired by the DURATION Bergen pianist Christian Hundsnes DATE/TIME gestures and motions in the Prelude 1:00 Thursday 04 & Friday 05 June at 22:30 of Bach's 4th Suite for Solo Cello in E Grøvlen (born 1990) gives his first flat major, but neither in tonality nor Bergen International Festival solo reci- Mezzo-soprano Randi Stene and pia- DURATION 1:00 thematic content! Hearing both works tal, with a varied programme featuring nist Håvard Gimse perform works by in the same concert, we have the opp- works by Sæverud, Thommessen, Grieg, Sibelius, Mompou, Albéniz and OTHER ortunity to experience the similarities Haydn, Chopin and Ravel. Monsalvatge. See more concerts with Andsnes and Friends on p. 36. and differences at close quarters,' says He has made his mark both as a soloist Randi Stene, one of Norway's lead- cellist Ernst Simon Glaser in connection Leif Ove Andsnes, a few young string and as a chamber musician nationally ing soloists, is a member of the with his world premiere performance of players and fellow pianist Håvard and internationally, and has won seve- Royal Danish Opera Ensemble in Grenager's work at Siljustøl. Gimse invite you to join them in a ral competitions at home and abroad. Copenhagen. Her repertoire is very Hungarian encounter with beautiful Ernst Simon Glaser is currently A participant in many festivals, he has broad, encompassing not only the m contrasts. principal cellist with the Gothenburg performed with Norwegian symphony classical mezzo operatic roles but Symphony Orchestra, the national orchestras and collaborated with some also numerous rarely-performed and 'György Kurtág is one of my favourite TICKET* Grieg’s Full price: 260 orchestra of Sweden. Since last of the country's foremost musicians. newly-written works. Randi Stene composers from our own time. In his Under 30: 150 autumn he has also taught at the He is known for his extroverted musi- has appeared at many major opera short pieces he manages to create cianship, virtuosity and a repertoire Transportation Norwegian Academy of Music alongsi- villa houses, including the Metropolitan unique moods, spanning the entire included in the ticket. de Truls Mørk. He opens his Bergen ranging from the baroque era to the in New York; she was Musician gamut from playfulness to sadness. In More information on International Festival concert with a present day. Grøvlen has a predilection in Residence at the 1998 Bergen our encounter with this concentrated page 84. work by Olav Anton Thommessen. for 'ultra-pianistic' repertoire, such as International Festival and is in great universe we play music by another *Festival card: Sergei Rachmaninov and Leopold demand at home and abroad as a Hungarian, . Not the vir- The cellist explains, 'Som i en drøm 40 %–30 % discount Godowsky. Experience concert soloist. tuoso Liszt we know so well however, (As in a Dream) is composed over the but the religious mystic – beautiful opening cadence of Thommessen's the atmosphere She is accompanied by Håvard music that creates vast spaces,' says The Phantom of Light for Cello and 2 Christian Hundsnes Grøvlen piano in Edvard Gimse, who is recognised as an Leif Ove Andsnes. Woodwind Quintets, and demonstra- outstanding solo pianist. He is the tes the ability of one of the greatest Grieg’s living In association with the preferred accompanist of many of composers of our time to develop Norwegian Academy of Music room Scandinavia's foremost artists. Leif Ove Andsnes piano musical ideas in an expressive way, Håvard Gimse piano just as Bach and Beethoven did.' Randi Stene mezzo-soprano Ragnhild Hemsing violin Håvard Gimse piano Ellen Nisbeth viola Ernst Simon Glaser cello Sponsored by DNV GL Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen cello

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DURATION 1:00 Endre Jonathan OTHER Rydland Vetås Roozeman Nordic Soloist Finals, p. 41 Candidate for Norway Candidate for Finland TICKET* – trombone – cello Full price: 260 Under 30: 150 DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Entrance to the Friday 29 May at 11:30 Saturday 30 May at 11:30 museum/Grieg’s Villa Eva Magnus and transportation Endre, born 1995, grew up in Radøy Jonathan, born in 1997, started included in the ticket. Thórarinsdóttir Holmander playing at the age of two, and has More information on north of Bergen, in the heart of brass trained at the Sibelius Academy in page 84. Candidate for Iceland Candidate for Sweden band country. A former member of Helsinki since 2009. He is a member – violin – clarinet Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag, the Eva Kruse *Festival card: of the Jean Sibelius Youth Orchestra, 40 %–30 % discount first non-British band to win the Steinaa and has performed at international DATE/TIME DATE/TIME European brass band champions- chamber music festivals. He has Thursday 28 May at 11:30 Thursday 28 May at 14:00 hips, he is currently on leave from his Candidate for Denmark also participated in numerous major studies at the Norwegian Academy – oboe Follow the Nordic candidates Eva, born 1986 in Reykjavik, gained a Magnus, born 1993 in Askim, attends of Music to be principal trombonist competitions, which he believes is for the Norwegian Soloist Prize place at the Yehudi Menuhin School of the in with the Kristiansand Symphony DATE/TIME an important part of the learning Friday 29 May at 14:00 2015 to the finale. Music in Surrey at the age of twelve, Stockholm, and has won several Orchestra. He has performed with process. and in doing so received numerous Swedish prizes. He collaborates clo- the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Eva, who was born in 1993, trained On Saturday 30 May the winner of bookings in celebrated concert venues sely with the celebrated clarinettist 'It involves a great deal of preparation Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the at the Royal Danish Conservatoire. the 2015 Norwegian Soloist Prize will in England. She has taken first prize at Martin Fröst, including involvement and practice to put across what I am Norwegian Opera Orchestra. In this Currently principal oboist with the be announced at the conclusion of a many international violin competitions in his production Dollhouse, in which passionate about to audiences. For concert he aims to demonstrate the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, concert in Håkonshallen involving all and performed with the BBC Symphony Magnus has been engaged not only me the cello is like the human voice, versatility of his instrument. she formerly held a post in the South candidates. Before the final concert Orchestra, the Icelandic Symphony as a musician, but also as a dancer only with even more potential. I want Denmark Philharmonic Orchestra. each of the young musicians will give Orchestra and the Odense Symphony and magician. He loves performing, 'The trombone has an enormous to demonstrate this scope in reper- She has won several Danish music a one-hour recital in Troldsalen with Orchestra. She is currently second vio- and is not averse to including dance range of tone colour, and my concert toire ranging from the Baroque period competitions, including the 2014 music of their own choice. lin in the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester steps or surprise stunts in his concert programme features a variety of sty- to the current day. Danish P2 Talent Prize. Eva is particu- while pursuing a busy solo career. performances. les spanning several centuries. I hope larly fond of music from the Romantic She is certain that her programme in the audience will enjoy the different period and the effervescent energy Troldsalen will include a work by the 'I am in love with the sound of the moods and perhaps experience some Supported by the of Baroque music, but enjoys perfor- Finnish composer Kalevi Aho. clarinet, and I really appreciate the aspects of the trombone that they Nordic Culture Fund. ming modern music too, especially if way the instrument jumps so effort- were not aware of.' 'It is insanely challenging and great lessly between various genres such it tells a story. fun to play this piece; you have to as classical and jazz. My solo concert 'I love the temperament of the oboe. let yourself go a bit mad. Audiences programme will be traditional clari- It expresses yearning, brilliance and usually love it too – perhaps because net music such as Schumann's fan- not least love. It has so many diverse my arms move so fast that they seem tasy pieces alongside contemporary WWW.FIB.NO qualities! It can portray a hysterical 056 to go out of joint. Otherwise I love the music.' hen-house one moment and lyrical magic moments at concerts when you passages with exquisite melancholic can almost hear a pin drop.' beauty the next.'

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k Obra with Adam & Eve Bergen Big Band Rosary World premiere & Batagraf Meditations

USF A Divine Comedy RØKERIET A concert performance inspi- m Melancholy and mystery. DATE/TIME red by ordinary people and Thursday 28 May HÅKONSHALLEN at 20:30 current events. In this atmospheric concert Biber's A new burlesque chamber opera about DATE/TIME Rosary Sonatas enjoy the company of fundamentalist religion and misogyny. DURATION An initial urge to examine the stories Friday 29 May compositions and improvisations by 1:00 of people whose lives have been dras- at 19:30 the Norwegian fiddler Nils Økland on '… violence against women is one of the grea- tically affected by global economic LANGUAGE DURATION the Hardanger fiddle and viola d'amore. test human rights scandals of our time …'. This Performed in (dis)order has resulted in this concert 1:20 World statement by Amnesty International is the Norwegian. performance, in which musicians and The Bohemian eighteenth century English translation premiere backdrop to Adam & Eve – a Divine Comedy, actors elaborate on the concept of OTHER composer Heinrich Biber made use available. Talk about music LOGEN TEATER which is premiered at the Bergen International cause and effect – in a world which and mysteries (in of a variety of fiddle tunings, which Festival. The performance focuses on how the OTHER doesn't seem to recognise itself. Norwegian) with is also common practice in the Talk about Europe’s DATE/TIME three major patriarchal religions of the world Lars Petter Hagen Norwegian Hardanger fiddle tradi- Thursday 28 May new nomads on In the course of a tragi-comic evening and Gunnar Dan- prevent sex equality and ultimately result in Thursday 28 May, tion. The Rosary Sonatas have been at 19:30 characterised by social and personal bolt at 18:45. violence. see p. 79 a great inspiration to Nils Økland, politics we ask, 'who did it, who can Friday 29 May TICKET* particularly the legendary recording at 19:30 TICKET* be blamed for it and who's going to Full price: 350 In the performance, excerpts from the Bible, the Full price: 350 made by Baroque violin pioneer John pay for it?' For one thing is certain: Under 30: 150 DURATION Koran and texts of Judaism are juxtaposed with Under 27: 250 Holloway. This Bergen International 1:30 the Declaration of Human Rights, Dante's Divine someone has done well out of it. *Festival card: Cecilie Ore composition, libretto Festival concert is the first time they Comedy and stories of everyday life. Burlesque 40 %–30 % discount LANGUAGE Bibbi Moslet libretto, dramaturgy Jon Balke, jazz musician and com- perform together. humour, self-irony and surrealism are also given Performed in Susanne Øglænd director poser, is known for his faith in art to English a central place in what is a serious matter. What Nils Økland is a renewer of folk music, Carle Lange set design provoke thought. forms our cultural understanding? Where is the consistently building bridges to clas- OTHER Signe Becker costume design pain threshold between entertainment and sical, contemporary and improvisa- The discussion Sverre Randin lighting design 'Misogyny in the seriousness? Alan Lucien Øyen, Andrew Wale text, tional music. name of God' in Cato Langnes, Mats Claesson sound design direction Norwegian takes The Norwegian composer Cecilie Ore has won 'If this is holy music, it is for a space place in Logen Jon Balke composer, original concept both national and international prizes for her church, at once ethereal and heartily Theatre on Cathrine Winnes conductor Solrun Toft Iversen dramaturgist Saturday 30 May work. She has been performed and commis- substantial', wrote The Wire (UK) of Tora Augestad, Eir Inderhaug, at 15:00, see p. 79. sioned by major orchestras, ensembles and Økland's CD Straum. Ingebjørg Kosmo, Marianne E. Andersen, Bergen Big Band choirs, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, TICKET* Håkon Kornstad, Frank Havrøy, Jon Balke keyboards, electronics, percussion Full price: 290 Ensemble Modern, the BBC Singers, and the Olle Holmgren singers Snorre Bjerck percussion Nils Økland fiddle, viola d'amore Under 30: 150 Norwegian National Opera & Ballet. In her new Bjørn Skansen, Marius Søbye Helge Andreas Norbakken percussion John Holloway Baroque violin work Adam & Eve seven singers are accom- *Festival card: Teodor Berg: SISU Slagverkensemble Wenche Kvamme, Sverre Røssummoen Sigbjørn Apeland harmonium 40 %–30 % discount panied by a percussion trio and music, voices Anders T. Andersen voice et. al actors Eveln Laib continuo organ and sound over loudspeakers. There are quick character changes and surprising and fasci- nating tableaux. Produced by Vestnorsk Jazzsenter in HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER (1644–1704) The Rosary Sonatas – Five Sorrowful Mysteries association with Den Nationale Scene, NILS ØKLAND (1961–) AND '… in pain you shall bring forth children. Your Nattjazz and the Bergen International Festival SIGBJØRN APELAND (1966–) desire shall be to your husband, and he shall Improvisations and compositions rule over you.' – GENESIS 3:16

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Theatre of Voices Stockhausen Else Torp, Louise Skovbæch, Alwynne Prichard performer Randi Pontoppidan, Wolodymyr – Stimmung Smishkewych, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, World premieres of works by: Paul Hillier singers ADAM DE LA COUR (1979–) FELIX KUBIN (1969–) FRANÇOIS SARHAN (1972–) Paul Hillier artistic director GERHARD STÄBLER (1949–) Ian Dearden sound design HELMUT OEHRING (1961–) with Theatre TROND REINHOLDTSEN (1972–) ØYVIND TORVUND (1976–) of Voices KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (1928–2007) HOLLIE HARDING (1986–) Stimmung VINKO GLOBOKAR (1934–)

In association with Borealis festival

Supported by Oticon Foundation m

HÅKONSHALLEN Come into the inner pocket of sound – and bring a cushion! DATE/TIME Wednesday 03 June k at 19:30 Grammy-winning Theatre of Voices is one of DOG/GOD the best vocal ensembles in the world. Their World DURATION fearless repertoire oozes technical mastery, 1:10 premiere and the ensemble's interpretation of Karlheinz OTHER Stockhausen's Stimmung definitively demon- ØSTRE Obsessive Introduction in strates the range of sounds that their magical English by Peter DATE/TIME Meanwell, artistic oral cavities have in store. Thursday 04 June Compulsive director of Borealis at 20:00 at 18:55. Stockhausen composed Stimmung in 1968, just Disorder before the student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, DURATION Chairs are available by 1:00 advance arrangement championing the cause of limitless art and – contact us at inner liberation. The German word Stimmung TICKET* Artist-vocalist-composer Alwynne Pritchard [email protected]. has several meanings, including 'tuning' and Full price: 190 has commissioned a series of short musical Under 30: 150 works based on the title DOG/GOD. The idea TICKET* 'mood', but the primary sense of the title Full price: 350 'implies not only the outward tuning of voices *Festival card: came to her on reading Paul Auster's novel Under 30: 150 or instruments, but also the inward tuning of 40 %–30 % discount Timbuktu, in which Mr Bones, a likeable mon- The charismatic British artist, who lives in grel, is the main character. On this occasion *Festival card: one's soul' (Hillier). A low B flat drone expands Bergen, has collaborated with leading musicians 40 %–30 % discount upwards through overtone singing and resul- Alwynne Pritchard premieres eight of the works, and ensembles from all over the world. Her com- ting rhythms. Stockhausen's interest in Asian all of which make substantial vocal and physi- positions, performances and concerts have been shamanism and other meditational religion is (including German krautrock), and has left a cal demands on the performer. With loud dog featured at several international festivals and in audibly evident. The repeated 'magic names' lasting impression on techno, electronica, house whines, esoteric tunes, divine tranquillity and major concert halls. All About Jazz – New York are gods and goddesses from many cultures; and ambient music. He was a mentor to Björk hellish upheaval these feral, ritualistic mini- has described her as producing '… a delivery the erotic verse was written by Stockhausen and a source of inspiration to the Beatles. dramas explore the concepts of loneliness, between that of a rock-music diva and a verbal himself. divinity, in(dependence), obedience, (self-) and physical contortionist'. She has also made This concert should be experienced lying on the destruction, desolation, absence and fleeing. her mark as the artistic director (2008–14) of the Stockhausen influenced generations of floor of Håkonshallen. Bring your own favou- experimental music festival Borealis in Bergen. musicians. He played an important part in rite cushion, or use the cushions and blankets the development of in the 1960s provided.

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DATE/TIME Norwegian Navy Band Bergen Tuesday 09 June Sinfonietta with the Norwegian Ingar Bergby conductor at 19:30 Geir Johnson host DURATION Navy Band Bergen 1:15

GEIR JOHNSON (1953–) TICKET* with Helmut Lachenmann Bygdin Full price: 290 m Military music for a new age. KETIL HVOSLEF (1939–) Under 30: 150 L’Homme Armée REBECKA AHVENNIEMI (1982–) BERGEN The Norwegian Navy Band Bergen is a highly *Festival card: ‘Composing means building a Muse’s Puzzle 40 %–30 % discount DOMKIRKE versatile ensemble consisting of 28 musicians KNUT VAAGE (1961–) new instrument,’ according to with a broad range of experience. The band Breaking Another Wall Lachenmann. Meet the composer in DATE/TIME Friday 05 June has made its mark in contemporary music, with his own anniversary concert at the at 19:30 numerous world premieres, festival performan- Bergen International Festival. ces and recordings to its name. DURATION The German Helmut Lachenmann (born 1935) 1:10 At this concert they perform a handful of the is one of the greatest composers of our time. TICKET* works commissioned for the band in recent years. In 2015 his 80th birthday is being celebrated Full price: 190 The programme spans a wide variety of music worldwide. When paints his Under 30: 150 by several generations of Norwegian composers. musical portrait at the Bergen International *Festival card: Festival, he will be on the stage himself. 40 %–30 % discount Using scraping sounds and mechanical noise emitting from the instruments alongside velvety tones from Romantic composers, Lachenmann The Nordic creates a sound universe of unfamiliar beauty and tender sensuality. The composer is known Council for a wealth of detail and experimentation with new tone qualities in his music. As such he has Music Prize become a father figure for several generations of composers in the wake of central European modernism. Oslo Sinfonietta Nominees 2015 The conductor of the Oslo Sinfonietta, Christian Christian Eggen conductor m Eggen, has collaborated with Lachenmann on Helmut Lachenmann piano, recitation Who will be competing for the The 2014 prizewinner, Simon Steen-Andersen several former occasions, and has a special rela- ØSTRE prestigious award? from Denmark, works in the cross-field amidst tionship with his music, which makes enormous HELMUT LACHENMANN (1935–) demands on the technical ability and artistic Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung) DATE/TIME composition, installation, electronica and per- The Nordic Council Music Prize is high-hanging expression of the performers. The musicians Kinderspiel for piano solo Saturday 30 May formance. We shall hear his Study for String Toccatina for solo violin at 15:00 fruit. The purse of 350 000 Danish kroner is Instrument #3 for cello and video with Tanja must furthermore often play their instruments “… zwei Gefühle …” Musik mit Leonardo für among the largest in Europe. At Østre we dis- in completely new way. ‘Beauty is no standardi- Sprecher und Ensemble DURATION Orning, one of Norway's most highly profiled 1:00 close the nominees to contend for the 2015 prize, performers of contemporary music. sed category; beauty is overcoming standards,’ with former nominees from all over the Nordic claims Lachenmann. Admission free countries in attendance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the award. Supported by the Oticon Foundation. ‘It’s what I imagine the sound of heaven to be like.’– THEARTSDESK.COM

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t Yaël Farber script (based upon August Mies Strindberg’s Miss Julie), direction Scandinavian premiere Daniel and Matthew Pencer composition Patrick Curtis set design, lighting design DEN NATIONALE Julie Birrie Le Roux costume design SCENE Tandiwe “Nofirst” Lungisa singer, musician STORE SCENE Hilda Cronjé, Bongile Mantsai and DATE/TIME Zoleka Helesi cast Friday 05 June Explosive version of Strindberg’s classic at 19:30 set in modern day South Africa. Saturday 06 June at 18:00 In a contemporary reworking of August Strindberg's classic Miss Julie, Yaël Farber Sunday 07 June at 15:00 has transposed this 1888 parable of class and gender to a remote, bleak farm in modern day DURATION South Africa's Cape Karoo semi-desert. 1:30

LANGUAGE This explosive new version tackles the deeper Performed in English complexities of South African society head on, t with Norwegian creating a newly menacing, torridly passionate, translation available. urgently relevant allegory for a post-apartheid World OTHER state in profound transition. premiere EROS Meet the cast on stage after the Against the pulsating, poignant backdrop of the performance on 05 BERGEN KJØTT annual Freedom Day celebrations, Xhosa farm June. The talk will DATE/TIME be held in English.​ labourer John and Mies Julie, the daughter of Sunday 31 May Norwegian composers. The performance is his white Afrikaans master, embark on a ruinous at 21:30 A choreographed TICKET* specially adapted for the venue Bergen Kjøtt, night, fuelled by drink, heat, generation-deep *Full price: 290–390 Monday 01 June theatrical concert a former meat factory rehabilitated as an arts Under 30: 150 resentments and earthy, brutal, primal passion. at 21:30 centre. In the sweltering heat of the kitchen, pots bubble *Festival card: Tuesday 02 June 40 %–30 % discount threateningly, a fan spins ineffectually, a tree grows at 21:30 through the worn tiles – and the sexual tension DURATION How do we recognise sensuality? builds dangerously. Into the whole volatile brew 1:10 Juni Dahr idea and concept development, The Norwegian actress Juni Dahr is known are thrown all the explosive, unresolved legacies LANGUAGE director, actor of the apartheid era: race, power, land restitution Performed in for her portrayals of strong female characters, and ancestral rights. The effect is shattering to all Norwegian. such as Joan of Arc and Ibsen's women. She is composition English translation also the driving force behind Visjoner Teater who have witnessed this work. available. Cecilie Lindeman Steen choreography (Visions Theatre), a workshop where artists of Hanne Ørstavik, Geir Gulliksen Since being the undisputed hit in its debut at OTHER various kinds join forces to create new forms Talk with Juni Dahr and others text the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Mies Julie and others (in Nor- of stage expression. Marianne Roland coordinator has taken the theatrical world by storm, having wegian) Monday Håkon Austbø piano 01 June at 16:30 at With a choreographer, dancers, writers, a com- amassed over 40 international five-star reviews Lars Jacob Holm, Anja Sunniva Valseth the Bergen Public poser and a pianist she has now focused on and multiple theatre awards. The Guardian Library. dance named it amongst top 5 productions in London sensuality, and presents the world premiere 2012 and the New York Times named it amongst TICKET* EROS at the Bergen International Festival. Text Full price: 290 excerpts are woven together with choreography top 10 of 2012 in New York. Under 30: 150 and music by Ravel, Debussy, Chopin and “Just sensational” – THE INDEPENDENT *Festival card: 40 %–30 % discount

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World premiere CORNERTEATERET Nothing DATE/TIME/TRACKS Thursday 28 May DUB at 19:15 - Against / of Me War of All Once upon Duration: 2:40 Leviathan! Friday 29 May at 19:15 - Against / War of All a human being t Duration: 2:40

Saturday 30 May at DEN NATIONALE Bergen playwright and author 19:15 - War of All / All SCENE Arne Lygre finally makes his Duration: 2:50 TEATER- ‘Emergency Response Theatre’ for the and Kill Them All (2013) received the Critics’ Bergen citizen KJELLEREN debut on home ground, following Sunday 31 May at future. Award. In accordance with the idea of the DUB great success on stages abroad 19:15 - Against / All genre, Tore Vagn Lid follows up motifs from theatre DATE/TIME and elsewhere in Norway. Duration: 2:30 In this project Tore Vagn Lid presents a sce- Saturday 09 May– earlier work, from the wave of suicide related Saturday 10 June Tuesday 02 June at nic album in a cross-pollination of stage play, to the Euro debt crisis to the countless ‘losers’ t Nothing of Me is about a mature 19:15 - Against / radio play and concert. A state of emergency beneath the ‘harder sky’ of global capitalism, Weekdays at 19:30 woman entering a relationship with a War of All Saturday at 18:00 Duration: 2:40 describes a situation in which normal laws and to use Bjørneboe’s expression. World A symphony of stories. man many years her junior. She leaves regulations are set aside, often as a result of an her husband and children to live out Wednesday 03 June premiere DURATION sudden catastrophe or unexpected occurrence. The album consists of the tracks War of all (Bellum During the 2014 Bergen International See www.fib.no her passion with the young man. Does at 19:15 - Against / All DEN NATIONALE Duration: 2:30 In Tore Vagn Lid’s stage dub, stage art and the Omnium), Against (Contra) and All (Omnes), Festival, director Vibeke this bring them pure joy? Or does SCENE LANGUAGE Thursday 04 June at dub DJ’s modus operandi join forces towards which will be presented in various combinations LILLE SCENE Havre sat in a booth in the city Performed in their past catch up with them? 19:15 - War of All / All a common goal: to prepare us for a state of during the performance period. square and collected the stories of Norwegian. DATE/TIME Duration: 2:50 emergency and make a kind of ‘emergency local residents, culling raw mate- English translation ‘This isn’t just some simple adultery- Friday 29 May unavailable. Friday 05 June at response theatre’ for the future. at 18:00 rial for the theatrical project Bergen gone-sour drama … Nothing of Me is Tore Vagn Lid direction, text and audio-visual 19:15 - Against / citizen theatre. Those story-tellers TICKET* more like a poetic meditation of the War of All / All concept, music, musician Saturday 30 May Thomas Hobbes’s work Leviathan describes the who consented to having their mate- Full price: 320 nature of existence itself,’ wrote the Duration: 4:00 Tomas Nilsson music, percussion at 13:00 & 15:00 Under 30: 150 natural condition of mankind as war ‘of every rial included have been involved in Guardian’s theatre critic after the LANGUAGE Jonas Skarmark DUB Organizer/DJ man against every man’. Monday 01 June developing the performance, and *Festival card: world premiere in Stockholm. Performed in Morten Skage bass at 18:00 Norwegian with appear on stage as narrators. 40 %–30 % discount extracts in English. Keywords for the scenic album are active – and Thorolf Thuestad sound design DURATION Kamilla Bach Mortensen director in particular interactive – humankind, in a future Øystein Nesheim set and models 1:00 The performance Once upon a human OTHER Ingvild Rømo Grande set designer On some days there will characterised by new crises and new struggles Kristian Pedersen animation/graphics being consists of the stories of be DUB parties after in which the rules are in flux and risk zones are Norunn Standal lighting design LANGUAGE Ane Skumsvoll, Stian Isaksen, Performed in Norwe- several lives. Memories, dreams and the performance. In- expanding. Ole Joachim Sjursen, Tore Vatne film team Marianne Nielsen cast formation about these gian. English transla- experiences are woven together into will be announced on Stephan Hergel, Vegard Landsverk, tion unavailable. a greater tale about being human. DUB as a music production form evolved in a www.fib.no/dubparty, Kyrre Bjørkås, Åsmund Bøe, Klaus Kottmann, Produced by DNS on our Facebook page time of protest and revolt in Jamaica around OTHER Alexander Andreassen video material Talk (in Norwe- and at the venue. The 1970. The mixer board acquired an extended scenic symposium Tor Christian F. Bleikli, Stine Fevik, gian) after the 13:00 Vibeke Flesland Havre script, director function, accompaniment was a central feature performance on New Performances, Henrikke Meidell, Selma Indine Strønen Anders Hasmo Dahl dramaturg New Tools – and the vocal track disappeared. Tore Vagn Lid Saturday 30 May Damm, Hilde Annine Hasselberg, Arild Silje Sandodden Kise set design Knowledge and Skills makes a dramaturgical principle of this. for the Post-dramatic Vestre et.al. cast TICKET* Gunnar Innvær sound design LilleLab Full price: 250 Theatre is held 02 and Marte Elise Stormo lighting design 03 June, see page 79. Tore Vagn Lid is recognised for productions that Under 30: 150 highlight social issues and explore the potential Produced by Transiteatret-Bergen in associa- TICKET* *Festival card: A production in the LilleLab series is shown at Lille Scene, DNS Full price: 290 of theatre as a medium. The Measures Taken tion with Dramatikkens Hus, the Norwegian 40 %–30 % discount Presented in association with during the Festival. Director Tim Carroll, known from King Lear Under 30: 150 (2007), Elephant Stories (2009) and Fatzer Academy of Theatre Project Programme, the DNS theatre and other performances, co-creates a topical performance *Festival card: (2012) were internationally acclaimed when they Aust-Agder County, Sisu Percussion, Bergen 40 %–30 % discount premiered at the Bergen International Festival, International Festival, Cornerteateret et.al with the actors. Premiere 22 May. Read more at www.dns.no.

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All other performan- with BIT Teatergarasjen/Bergen International production. Thematically, the piece is about ces in Norwegian Ideas that would never reach Brussels are debated. Ingeleiv Berstad and Kristin Ryg Festival, Archa Theatre, BRUT, Frascati, HAU, failing – a recurring topic for the two – and In Bergen the game will be led by a Norwegian- Helgebostad, Siri & Snelle Production: TICKET* Kaaitheater, LIFT, Malta Festival, Théâtre de everything we as people do to succeed. Lina speaking croupier, but some of the performances Siri Jøntvedt and Snelle Ingrid Hall and Full price: 190 la Commune Aubervilliers, Théâtre Garonne, Saneh interrogates the nature and function of Under 30: 150 will be in English (see language, left). Lina Saneh choreographers and costumes Teatro Maria Matos, Sort/Hvid, Mungo acts and speech in the era of the virtual and of Zeina Hanna dramaturgy *Festival card: Rimini Protokoll is at the forefront of documen- Park and Teater Nordkraft. A House on Fire the idealized body as portrayed by the media. Tilo Hahn lighting design 40 %–30 % discount tary theatre, in which the script is taken from co-production supported by the Cultural Read more about the choreographers and the Ivar Grydeland composer/music real life, and in which 'everyday experts' – ordi- Programme of the European Union. performance at www.fib.no. nary people – take part. Documentation of all

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Toril Goksøyr, Camilla Martens The Provocateur Kamchàtka direction, script, concept Martin Langlie sound design Olav Myrtvedt set design t A personal wake-up call. t Ingeborg S. Olerud lighting design Oda Radoor dramaturg 'Look at all the shopping bags! Thank you for World Outdoors Ane Dahl Torp, Kari Onstad, Trine Wiggen, supporting employment in the third world. What premiere Birgitte Larsen actors about when we run out of snow and oil? You buy TORG- Tuesday 09 June ALLMENNINGEN at 17:00 Outdoors because you are afraid. You euphorically seek (STARTING new bargains, but the cycle always culminates POINT) DURATION TORG- in guilt. And fear propagates – you can't even 1:00 ALLMENNINGEN DATE/TIME say dwarf without being arrested. Monday 08 June Admission free DATE/TIME at 17:00 Wednesday 03 June 'Oh, how fed up we are of all this. We have at 14:00 heard it all before. Egoistical consumerism, Eight people with a suitcase each, Thursday 04 June oil bonanza and growth. All at the expense lost in the city. at 14:00 of human rights and natural resources. High Are the strangers travelling through or recent Friday 05 June social morality, hidden racism, xenophobia and at 14:00 political correctness deprive us of our ability to immigrants? Curious, and unfamiliar with our act. It cannot go any further, as you very well unwritten rules, they become a mirror of how we Saturday 06 June behave, and how we relate to what is different. at 11:00 know. Wake up!' This theatrical company from Barcelona creates DURATION The provocateur calls for action. He turns up t 4:00 in several European cities, arriving in Bergen intense, moving and disturbing encounters on the street. They move in the borderland bet- Admission free to serve you a personal wake-up call. Stop a Free ween theatre, roleplay and reality, and have World moment and note the bad taste in your mouth. premiere given audiences in many European cities a new the daughter wants is much too expensive. The provocateur is in a cage in the city square take on their surroundings. Outdoors Then grandmother arrives. Is she coming to (Torgallmenningen), shouting at passers-by by Goksøyr & the rescue? Or is this the moment everything By standing outside the established majority NYGÅRDS- – and you are allowed to reciprocate. PARKEN falls apart? and looking at the city for the first time, the Martens This international joint project is a critical social strangers reveal some aspects of our way of DATE/TIME Free is a story about a woman and her mother in satire for the whole family. behaving that we do not see so clearly ours- Saturday 30 May at 18:30 Bird's eye view theatre. a park. A performance about what we tell each elves. The theatrical company Kamchàtka other and what stays in our minds. describes the project as a tribute to simplicity, Sunday 31 May How much can you tell your mother before she Christian Lollike concept, direction, text at 18:30 spontaneity and humanism. gets up and leaves? In the park there are students, pensioners, a Palle Steen Christensen set design DURATION group of alcoholics, mothers breast-feeding and 1:30 Goksøyr & Martens are known for connecting council workers from the parks department. Adrian Schvarzstein artistic director theatre with reality. They are now trying out The audience follow the actions of these peo- A co-production by the Bergen International LANGUAGE Festival, Dramaten&, Aarhus Festuge, Eduardo Rodilla, Claudio Levati, Performed in new spaces, and have chosen Bergen’s Nygård ple from a bird’s eye view, whilst hearing the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Sort/Hvid Cristina Aguirre, Lluis Petit, Judit Ortiz, Norwegian, with Park for Free. protagonist’s story on a headset. Sergi Estebanell, Andrea Lorenzetti, English text available Santi Rovira actors A mother and her teenage daughter are sitting Goksøyr & Martens collaborate closely with the Supported by the Grieg Foundation, TICKET* on a bench in the park. They have been shop- National Theatre in Oslo, where several of the the Kavli Trust and the Oticon Foundation Full price: 290 ping for the daughter’s confirmation the next Free actors work. Their productions have also Supported by the Grieg Foundation Under 30: 150 weekend. They are drinking coffee and juice appeared internationally, in Avignon, Berlin, and the Kavli Trust *Festival card: in the sunshine. All is well, although the dress Venice, Johannesburg and Liverpool. 40 %–30 % discount

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New Performances, Supported by Dialogues Fritt Ord Foundation and New Tools – J.W. Eides Stiftelse Knowledge and Skills for the Post-dramatic Sponsored by Theatre Bergens Tidende world. Moana – the Rising of the Sea (p. 14) will be performed the same day. CORNERTEATERET

DATE/TIME o Tuesday 02–Wednesday 03 June Symposium arranged by the University at 10:00–16:00 The Festival presents a number of of Bergen in association with talks, introductions and debates based (For registration, please visit www.fib.no/ the Bergen International Festival newperformances.) on themes from the 2015 programme. These are held in Norwegian or other Together with Tore Vagn Lid and the Scandinavian languages, except tho- Academy of Theatre in Oslo’s Artistic se on this page and the introduction Research Programme, we invite you to to Stockhausen – Stimmung (p. 66). Misogyny in the a scenic symposium with national and Name of God international stage artists. When the art form of theatre itself is changing, what happens to the artist and her LOGEN TEATER knowledge and skills? The Pacific Islands: u A central work in the 2015 Festival Exhibition DATE/TIME Frontline of Saturday 30 May Festival is a film recorded in Bergen about an art stu- at 15:00–16:15 The Holberg Prize BERGEN dent who leaves college to take on the role of a Climate Change KUNSTHALL Admission free Celebratory Evening Exhibition beggar on the street. The film is one of several DATE/TIME works on the themes of use of public space and STUDENTSENTERET, Many would claim that the patriarchal 28 May–16 August ongoing discussions on such topics as beg- UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN Monday–Sunday 2015 religions contain a view of women that LOGEN TEATER ging and urban advertising. Ane Hjort Guttu at 11:00–17:00 DATE/TIME is at odds with human rights. How does also demonstrates how the complex question DATE/TIME Friday 29 May this affect our cultural understanding Tuesday 09 June Thursday: of rights in public spaces affects our personal at 10:00–16:00 at 11:00–20:00 and the world today? In connection at 18:00–20:00 space and our psyche. Admission free with the world premiere of Adam & Eve Admission free TICKET Ane Hjort Guttu (p. 64), we invite Deeyah Khan, Gunnar Full price: 50 The exhibition will also appear at the South There are few places in the world Stålsett, John Peder Egenæs, Cecilie The Holberg Prize invites you to Student/seniors: 25 London Gallery in 2015. where the effects of climate change Ore and Maryam Namazie to a panel become better acquainted with this OTHER New works on power, freedom and art are experienced so directly and rapidly discussion in association with Amnesty year’s winners. The Holberg Prize Opening: as critical and political tools. as in the islands of the tropical Pacific, 2015 is awarded to the British historian, Thursday 28 May International and Bergens Tidende. at 13:00 where rising sea level, warming and Moderator: Hilde Sandvik. We will also writer and mythologist Marina Warner. Through film, sculptures, photographs and ANE HJORT GUTTU (1971–) Talk with the artist: acidification of the ocean, and new pat- be showing Yoko Ono’s controversial Meet her and the Danish winner of the Saturday 30 May readymades Ane Hjort Guttu has in recent terns of extreme weather in some cases Nils Klim Prize, Rebecca Adler-Nilsen, at 13:00 art film Arising. years raised questions related to how much threaten the viability of entire nations. in a talk moderated by tv host Haddy Guided tours every: Steinar Sekkingstad, Martin Clark curators Sunday at 14:00 room to manoeuvre art and the artist have in In this symposium, prominent climate Njie. Refreshments upon arrival, and Guided tour for topical political matters. How can artists add- scientists, politicians and activists from artistic interludes. families with children: ress politics efficiently? What does 'efficient' Sunday 31 May Produced by Bergen Kunsthall the Pacific and Norway meet, in order to at 13:00 mean in that context, and is that what political create new dialogues on the challenges art ought to be? currently facing the Pacific, and the In association with the Holberg Prize and the City of Bergen

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Combine your visit in Bergen with Bus to Troldhaugen (Round Trip) CONCERT AT 14:30 beautiful West Coast scenery! We col- The bus journey is approx. 30 min. Departure from Dreggekaien at 13:00 Return from Lysøen, departure at 16:15 laborate with several travel agencies to be able to offer you the Festival CONCERT AT 11:30 T R E AT Departure from Strandkaien, Bus to Valestrand (Round Trip) experience you want. Tourist information/Mathallen at 10:45. The bus journey is approx. 45 min. Return from Troldhaugen, CONCERT AT 13:00 Please contact us on +47 55 21 06 30 departure at 14:00 Departure from Strandkaien, YOURSELF for group bookings or any questions CONCERT AT 13:00 Tourist information/Mathallen at 12:00. regarding your visit. Departure from Strandkaien, Return from Valestrand, departure at 15:00 RADISSON BLU HOTEL NORGE IS PROUD SPONSOR Tourist information/Mathallen at 12:15. CONCERT AT 15:00 Bergen has many hotels and different Return from Troldhaugen, Departure from Strandkaien, OF BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL. departure at 15:30 types of accommodation for travelers. Tourist information/Mathallen at 14:00. Return from Valestrand, departure at 17:00 For more information, visit CONCERT AT 14:00 347 ROOMS AND SUITES, SEVERAL RESTAURANTS AND BARS, Departure from Strandkaien, www.visitbergen.com/accommodation Tourist information/Mathallen at 13:15. Bus to Siljustøl SWIMMING POOL, JACUZZI, SPA AND HAIRDRESSER Return from Troldhaugen, The bus journey is approx. 30 min. The festival hotel Radisson Blu Hotel departure at 16:30 CONCERT AT 15:00 Norge is located in the middle of CONCERT AT 22:30 Departure from Strandkaien, Bergen city centre. It is within walking Departure from Strandkaien, Tourist information/Mathallen at 14:15. distance of most of our venues. For Tourist information/Mathallen at 21:45 Return from Siljustøl, departure at 16:30 IN THE HEART Return from Troldhaugen, booking, contact Hotel Norge at (+47) departure at 00:00 02525 or visit www.radissonblu.com/ hotellnorge-bergen Entrance to the museum and Grieg’s Villa is included in the concert ticket Transport to Bergen OF BERGEN Radisson Blu Hotel Norge offers Boat to Lysøen (Round Trip) package deals on accommodation The boat journey is approx. 50 min. at Bergen International Festival. Visit There are many routes to Bergen. CONCERT AT 11:30 www.bergenhelg.no (in Norwegian) or Departure from Dreggekaien at 10:00 For a complete overview, go to Visit BOOK YOUR STAY TODAY! call (+47) 09901. Return from Lysøen, departure at 14:00 Bergen at www.visitbergen.com/ transportation

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The Festival The Festival thanks thanks Trond Mohn Rika AS, represented by Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber

Through his continued support of the Bergen Trond Mohn is one of these ambassadors International Festival, Trond Mohn has helped and we appreciate his support for the Bergen invest in the development of the festival. In International Festival. It enables us to reach our the years to come we will expand our activities goals for the benefit of our visitors, the city of and have defined new goals and ambitions for Bergen, and the country as a the Bergen International Festival. People have whole, as we continue to inspire and challenge For many years, Rika AS / Yvonne and Bjarne Their support enables us to present samples great expectations of the Bergen International the audience. Rieber have invested significant amounts in from the diverse festival programme at the Festival, and express a desire that we should the Bergen International Festival, which is and opening ceremony on 27 May. work to release the potential of other cultural The Bergen International Festival would like to should continue to be an important cultural Bergen International Festival would like to thank institutions through ambitious projects. We thank Trond Mohn for his support. event and a boost for the cultural scene in Rika AS, represented by Yvonne and Bjarne want to influence the international art scene Bergen, Norway and abroad. Their support is Rieber for their contribution. through our work. In order to do this we need crucial to the festival’s ambitious projects that committed and ambitious festival ambassadors connect tradition and renewal, that challenge that recognise the value of a strong Norwegian and entertain the audience and make culture cultural scene and contribute to affirming our accessible to more and more people. position as a leading European arts festival. We are grateful that Rika AS, represented by Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber, share our convic- tion that the festival will strengthen its position and continue to develop in the years to come, and that they support our investments in new projects and our aim to make an impact in the European cultural scene.

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The Festival The Festival thanks thanks The Kavli Trust has supported the Bergen International Festival for a number of years, and in recent The GC Rieber Funds support cha- years the Kavli Trust has supported ritable social and cultural initiatives, the festival’s outdoor programme: a mainly in Bergen. They also support variety of events that are free and research within medicine and other The Grieg Foundation supports Sparebankstiftelsen DNB is an open to everyone. fields. numerous charitable projects world- independent foundation that works ASAF ANDERS SVEAAS’ ALMENNYTTIGE FOND wide, with emphasis on projects that to increase interest in and under- The Kavli Trust also continues its col- Among its many good cultural initia- involve children and youth, medical standing of art and culture, especi- laboration with Bergen Red Cross and tives, the funds focus on providing research and the environment. The ally among children and youth. They many other organisations that make support for young local talent, espe- The purpose of Anders Sveaas Grieg Foundation makes an active achieve this by supporting projects the festival accessible to people who, cially in music. This is done to ensure H. Westfal-Larsen og Charitable Foundation (ASAF) is to commitment to ensure necessary that involve good communication and for various reasons, are not able to further development of a rich cultural hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens contribute to charitable initiatives support and progress, and contri- encourage participation. experience the programme at the scene in Bergen in the future. Almennyttige fond and initiatives that benefit the gene- bute in ways that make a difference. regular festival venues. ral public – for instance by supporting Ung Symfoni (”Young Symphony”) Grieg Foundation is one of the main Dextra Musica is a subsidiary of H. Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna young Norwegian musicians through has been one of their main projects, sponsors behind SOS Children’s Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, and since Thanks to the support from the Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige fond scholarships and loan of string instru- and involving partners that can help Villages. 2006 it has purchased valuable Kavli Trust, festival concerts will is a charitable foundation that aims to ments. ASAF owns a collection of string instruments that it lends to once again be arranged at some of develop young talent. support the promotion of initiatives string instruments that are primarily Within art and culture their main Norwegian musicians. Bergen’s hospitals, nursing homes that benefit Bergen as a city and its lended to up-and-coming Norwegian Support for music therapy is another focus is on Western Norway, and the and senior centres this year. The fol- cultural scene. talent. main priority for the funds: this inclu- foundation has been an important With support from Sparebank- lowing institutions will receive visits des establishing a master’s degree supporter of cultural life in Bergen stiftelsen DNB – Dextra Musica, by festival artists, to the enjoyment of With support from the fund, the fes- The Bergen International Festival in music therapy at the University of for many years, including the con- the Bergen International Festival patients, residents, clients, employe- tival offers a special outdoor concert invests in performers and audience Bergen. The performance Minnenes struction of Oseana Art and Culture presents the Family Concert with es and next of kin: Mildeheimen syke- in the magical midnight hour on 6 alike, also in our classical programme. sangbok (“The Song Book of Center and The Grieg Collection, Cateura – The Recycled Orchestra. hjem, Bergen Røde Kors sykehjem, June. Midnight Reflection – A Silent Through our concert series in com- Memories”), which focuses on the the opera scene in Bergen and other The youth orchestra from Paraguay Enkers aldershjem, sykehjem, Concert presents a spectacular light posers' homes, the festival furthers effect of music on sufferers from cultural events. uses instruments made of oil drums, Arna helseheim at Stølsvegen and show around Lille Lungegårdsvann and renews the European salon dementia, has been created with broken kitchen utensils and metal Utløbakken, Gullstøltunet sykehjem, while Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A concert tradition, and with support support from the GC Rieber Funds. The Bergen International Festival pipes found in a landfill to show that Adventkirkens sykehjem Nordås, Minor and a world premiere by Danish from ASAF we continue our increased has been a recurrent name when the music is all about interaction, invol- composer Per Nørgård are transfer- focus on young musicians. menighets eldresenter The Bergen International Festival is foundation bestows their gifts, and vement and communication. They red to the audience via headphones. and Engensenteret. grateful for the support from the GC we are very pleased that they wish meet music students from Norwegian This combination of an outdoor The Bergen International Festival Rieber Funds. to take part in this festival tradition municipal culture schools and Dextra We would like to thank the Kavli Trust and indoor concert are part of the is grateful for ASAF’s support for in Bergen. Their contribution ena- musicians through Norsk kulturskole- for their contribution and involve- festival’s celebration of the 250th concerts with young performers in bles us to create a comprehensive råd and Dextra Musica’s collaborative ment in making festival experiences anniversary of Bergen Philharmonic the homes of the great composers. children’s and outdoor programme project IRIS. Together they present available to more people. Orchestra, for the enjoyment of the that let children, adolescents and a concert with great contrasts, com- entire city. adults take part in and watch good mitment and a striking musicality. performances – and enjoy the festival The Bergen International Festival atmosphere. The Bergen International Festival wishes to thank H. Westfal-Larsen would like to thank Sparebank- og hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens The Bergen International Festival stiftelsen DNB – Dextra Musica for Almennyttige fond for the support would like to thank the Grieg the support that makes this concert that enables us to present this unique Foundation for their support. possible. outdoor concert.

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The Festival Bergen City Museum Bømlo municipality Bømlo Teater thanks Carte Blanche – the Norwegian national company of contemporary dance Church Music in Bergen Cathedral Parish Cornerteateret The Bergen International Festival is dependent Damsgårdsdagene on many different supporters to continue Det Felles Innvandrerråd i Hordaland Den Nationale Scene spring’s big adventure. All the help you have Dramatikkens Hus extended has enabled us to make Dukkenikkernes teaterverksted the experience a greater one. Edvard Grieg Choir EKKO Erdal Church and Cultural Office Flimmer film Hordaland County Fløibanen A/S Festival Ambassadors Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fløien Folkerestaurant Trond Mohn Foundation Bryggen Rika AS, represented by Project Supporters Friends of Siljustøl Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber Fysak Allaktivitetshus Grieg Foundation Nordic Culture Fund Danish Arts Foundation GAMUT, Grieg Academy Music Pro Helvetia Therapy Research Centre Main Partners Oticon Foundation Grieg Academy - Department of Music, DNB Institut français University of Bergen DNV GL J.W. Eides Stiftelse Grieghallen Statoil Bergens Riksmålsforening Herdla Church Bergens Tidende Music Norway Holbergprisen Radisson Blu Hotel Norge Arts Council Norway Jiří Hlinka Grand Piano Academy Dagens Næringsliv Fond for lyd og bilde Kolibri – Children At Risk Foundation Det Norske Komponistfond Kritikerlaget Kulturoperatørene Project Partners KODE Art museums of Bergen Sparebankstiftelsen DNB Other partners and contributors Litteraturhuset i Bergen – Dextra Musica Anti Logen Teater The Kavli Trust Apollon Bergen Lydgalleriet A BALANCING ACT The GC Rieber Funds Arrangement Tjenester Lysverket Simonnæs Holding AS Askøy municipality Marceliussen Transport AS At DNV GL (formerly Det Norske Veritas), we value safety, quality and integrity. We are Fritt Ord Foundation Austevoll municipality Moster Amfi now 16,000 people in 100 countries committed to one common goal: to have a global H. Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Avinor Nordisk Råds Musikkpris Anna Westfal-Larsen’s Barratt Due Institute of Music Norwegian Academy of Music impact for a safe and sustainable future. Often, we take on the role of balancing the Almennyttige Fond Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri Norges Musikkorps Forbund needs of business and society. We call it the balancing act. Our partnership with Fest- University of Bergen Bekkjarvik Eiendom AS NRK Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation Bergen Backline Ole Bull’s villa, Valestrand spillene, one of Norway’s finest and most international cultural institutions, underpins Bergen Dansesenter Oseana our commitment to society. Because culture and society go hand in hand. Bergen Domkor Oslo National Academy of The Arts Festival Partners Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Oslo Sinfonietta Nespresso Bergen Philharmonic Choir Revy & Teaterservice That is why we are proud to be a main sponsor of Festspillene in Bergen. PwC Bergen og Hordaland Turlag Reksten museum Telenor Bergen Internasjonale Kultursenter Sibelius Kollegio Norwegian Hull Club Bergen Kjøtt Sibelius 150 A7 Print Bergen Kulturskole Sibelius One 07000 Bergen Taxi Bergen Pride 2015 Steinway Piano Gallery Oslo Galleriet Learn more about us on Bergen Public Library Stiftelsen Den norske solistpris www.dnvgl.com Atea Bergen Pikekor Stiftelsen Siljustøl TTS Group Bergen Private Gymnas, Musikklinjen Stine Vikne Securitas Bergen University College Ten Sing Bømlo Wimp Billettservice The Norwegian Council for Schools of Tesla Bergen BIT-Teatergarasjen Music and Performing Arts Olden Bodoni The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency Borealis The Royal Norwegian Naval Forces Band Public Sector Partners Boksalongen University of the South Pacific Ministry of Culture Bremnes kantori VilVite – Bergen science centre City of Bergen Bright Norway AS Østre

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