håkonshallen

wed 16. august at 7.30 pm

Grieg in a new setting

AHRUEM AHN, piano
NORWEGIAN NAVAL FORCES’ BAND
NILS ERIK MÅSEIDVÅG, conductor and conferancier

With works by Geir Tveitt, Percy Grainger and not to forget Grieg´s a minor piano concerto, soloed by former 1. prize winner

of the Grieg Int. Piano Competition, AhRuem Ahn, you will get an unforgettable evening at Håkonshallen this summer.

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Program

G. TVEITT (1908-1989):
Velkomne med æra
Storskrytarstev

P. GRAINGER (1882-1961)
Shepherds Hey
Molly on the Shore

E. GRIEG (1843-1907)
Gangar, fra lyrisk suite
Piano concerto a-minor

Biographies

AHRUEM AHN is the 1st prize winner of the Grieg Int Piano Competition 2016, and she brings you into a world where the sound of the piano becomes a new dimension, including all the other ingredients you would expect from a pianist at this upper level.

NILS ERIK MÅSEIDVÅG is considered one of Norway's greatest talents in conducting, and has already repeatedly worked with many Norwegian orchestras, such as the Oslo Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Arctic Philharmonic and Norwegian Radio Orchestra. From 2018 and through 2019 he was Assistant Conductor of Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, where he assisted on a number of productions and conducted several concerts, amongst them the traditional New Years concerts in 2019. In 2020 he won the Léonie Sonnings Talent Prize. He is very interested in bringing music by living composers further into the foreground, as he believes there is a vast amount of great music that deserves more recognition.

The NORWEGIAN NAVAL FORCES’ BAND is one of Norway’s full-time professional military bands comprising 27 musicians of the highest professional standard, who form a dynamic and hugely versatile ensemble.

The band performs in a variety of settings, military and civilian, and covers most genres including traditional band music, classical, jazz, pop, rock and contemporary classical.

The band has made a name for itself particularly in the field of contemporary music, with numerous first performances, festival appearances, critically acclaimed CD-recordings, and not least, receiving the Norwegian Society of Composer’s Performer Award 2008. The band’s previous artistic leaders and chief conductors, Ingar Bergby and Peter Szilvay received the same award in 2010.