25 MAY 8 JUNE 2011 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

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1 25 MAY 8 JUNE 2011 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 1

2 dnbnor.no CONTENTS 4 From the Festival Director/Opening ceremony Proud sponsor of good causes DnB NOR is committed to working together with Norwegian cultural, sporting and voluntary organisations, both locally and nationally. 5 Oedipus rex 6 Farinelli - Les Talens Lyriques 7 The Swedish Chamber Orchestra with Tine Thing Helseth 8 kissin PLAYS liszt 9 jaga jazzist and FRIENDS 10 giuseppe verdi: MUSIC in Grieghallen messa da requiem THEATRE/DANCE 12 SOMEONE IS GOING TO COME 12 DOLLs IN THE HOUSE 13 GERPLA 14 MANTA 15 sharon eyal THE WORD 16 BEFORE SUNRISE 18 THE THEATRE OF THE EAR 20 cirkus cirkör The Flame of Ole Bull 21 ABOUT the flame of ole bull 22 kremerata baltica 23 GALA CONCERT 23 FAMILY CONCERT 24 poltéra AND FRIENDS 25 mozart/brahms 28 brahms/schoenberg 29 nordic SUMMER NIGHT 30 MUSIC AS gps/master CLASSES 31 troldhaugen 32 LYSØEN 33 valestrand/siljustøl EARLY MUSIC 34 andreas scholl 35 phantasm 36 THE NORWEGIAN soloists CHOIR 37 trio mediæval CHAMBER MUSIC 38 beethoven s cello sonatas 39 khatia buniatishvili 40 kopatchinskaja & say 41 ihle hadland PLAYS bach 42 THE NORWEGIAN SOLOIST PRIZE 44 NORWEGIAN LANDINGS: logen/lysøen 45 NORWEGIAN LANDINGS: siljustøl/valestrand 46 OTHER EVENTS AT TROLDHAUGEN PERFORMANCE/ EXHIBITION 47 BE CAPTIVATED! 47 FESTIVAL EXHIBITION TICKETS 48 BUY TICKETS 49 DISCOUNTS 50 Thank you! 2 3

3 T H E 5 9 th B E R G E N I N T E R N A T I O N A L F E S T I V A L His majesty king Harald V is the patron of the bergen international festival. TRADITION AND RENEWAL Tradition and renewal are not contradictory concepts they are mutually interdependent. Without tradition we lose our collective memory and are left at a standstill. Without renewal we lose direction and run around in circles. A lack of historical awareness can be as great an obstacle to the arts as a lack of will to change. Performances related to tradition are central features of this year s festival programme. The Swiss director Christoph Marthaler went to Greenland to experience Inuit traditions. The broad range of Ole Bull s work and his great importance to his contemporaries and to history have inspired us to create a new festival in the festival, which we have called The Flame of Ole Bull. There has been a noticeable tendency in recent years for the theatre to look to music and vice versa. Musicians and composers are to a growing extent attracted to the theatre. Igor Stravinsky found in the story of King Oedipus a framework to enhance the strength and clarity of his music. In the concert series The Theatre of the Ear Henrik Hellstenius examines how stage elements can support and extend the message of the music. We have intentionally given high priority to new productions. We want the Bergen International Festival to make its mark and to be an active contributor to the international festival landscape. I hope our programme will awaken both recognition and curiosity, so that you will want to join us in a journey of discovery into the past, the present and the future. Bergen International Festival and DEN NYE OPERA PRESENT OEDIPUS REX ILLUSTRATION: GUNNLAUG MOEN GRIEGHALLEN WEDNESDAY 25 MAY Duration approx. 1 hour Tickets 500 / 450 / 400 / 200 (cat. 1 4) Students 150 Children 120 FRIDAY 27 MAY Duration approx. 1 hour Tickets 460 / 410 / 360 / 180 (cat. 1 4) Students 150 Children 120 per boye hansen FESTIVAL DIRECTOR OPENING CEREMONY Torgallmenningen the city square WEDNESDAY 25 MAY Duration approx. 1 hour FREE ENTRANCE The 59th Bergen International Festival opens with a large scale event in the city square. Come and enjoy performances from Festival artists, speeches and surprises. The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is also on stage. Welcome to all! The story of Oedipus, who unaware kills his own father and marries his mother, is the tragedy above all tragedies a classical drama that has cast light and shadow on over two thousand years of European cultural history. Igor Stravinsky s monumental, clean-cut opera from 1927 is a powerful portrayal of the classical tragedy, and has remained a musical icon of the twentieth century. Eirik Stubø, former theatre director of Rogaland Theatre and the National Theatre (Oslo), makes his debut as an operatic director with this Bergen International Festival performance. Jon Fosse has translated parts of Jean Cocteau s original libretto. IGOR STRAVINSKY ( ) Oedipus Rex BALDUR BRÖNNIMANN conductor EIRIK STUBØ DIRECTOR KARI GRAVKLEV SET AND COSTUME DESIGN ELLEN RUGE LIGHTING DESIGN HÅKON MATTI SKREDE CHOIRMASTER ANDREAS CONRAD Oedipus TUIJA KNIHTILÄ JOCASTA MARCUS JUPITHER Creon CARSTEN STABELL Tiresias HELGE RØNNING SHEPHERD THORBJØRN GULBRANDSØY MESSENGER BERGEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA KORVEST WITH GUESTS 4 5

4 MUSIKK MUSIC IN I GRIEGHALLEN FARINELLI LES TALENS LYRIQUES PHOTO: Cinéart Agence Artistique THE SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA withtine thing helseth PHOTO: SIMAX GRIEGHALLEN THURSDAY 26 MAY Duration approx. 2 hours (with interval) Tickets 460 / 410 / 360 / 180 (cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 GRIEGHALLEN SATURDAY 28 MAY Duration approx. 1 h 45 min (with interval) Tickets 460 / 410 / 360 / 180 (cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET conductor, cembalo LES TALENS LYRIQUES ANN HALLENBERG mezzo-soprano ANDREW MANZE conductor THE SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA TINE THING HELSETH trumpet WORKS BY Riccardo BROSCHI ( ) Johann Christian Bach ( ) Nicola CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH ( ) SymPHonY no 3 in f MAJOR, Wq. 1883/3 ARVO PÄRT (B. 1935) Concerto PORPORA ( ) Geminiano GIACOMELLI (ca ) Leonardo LEO ( ) piccolo über b-a-c-h for solo trumpet, strings and one keyboard player IGOR STRAVINSKIJ ( ) Concerto in E FLAT MAJOR, «Dumbarton Oaks» JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH ( ) Ricercar BWV 1079:3 THE FILM FARINELLI about the famous castrato The baroque ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, currently SonatA ROM THE MUSICAL OFFERING BWV 1079, BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO 2 IN F MAJOR, BWV 1047 singer of the same name, caught the imagination celebrating its twentieth anniversary, is re- BOTH THE conductor Andrew Manze and the upon. Bach impressed all present with a three-part of wide audiences in the mid 1990s, and the core nowned for its technical skill combined with historical Swedish Chamber Orchestra are recognized for fugue, returning later with a complete score. repertoire of the castrati blossomed anew. performance practice, under the leadership finding new perspectives on music. Along with We also hear one of the orchestral symphonies of Just how castrato singers sounded is something of Christophe Rousset, one of Europe s foremost Tine Thing Helseth, who makes her Carnegie Hall his second son, CPE Bach. In Concerto Piccolo über we know little about, but when the Bergen International experts on eighteenth century music. debut this season, they come to the Bergen Inter- B-A-C-H it is the contemporary composer Arvo Festival is visited by the ensemble behind national Festival with a programme centred on Jo- Pärt who takes his inspiration from the renowned the film soundtrack, the principal part is played by hann Sebastian Bach. family, while Stravinsky was inspired by Bach s the Swedish mezzo soprano Ann Hallenberg. She The master himself is represented with The Musical Brandenburg Concertos to write Dumbarton Oaks. has received superb reviews for her consummate Offering. King Fredrik II of Prussia, himself a And the entire concert is rounded off with one of technique and dynamic stage presence. musician, gave Bach the theme of the work, intentionally Bach s own Brandenburg Concertos. making it a difficult theme to improvise 6 7

5 MUSIKK MUSIC IN I GRIEGHALLEN KISSIN Liszt PLAYS PHOTO: SHEILA ROCK JAGA JAZZIST AND FRIENDS PHOTO: ROBIN OTTERSEN GRIEGHALLEN TUESDAY 31 MAY Duration approx. 2 h (with interval) Tickets 460 / 410 / 360 / 180 (cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 GRIEGHALLEN THURSDAY 2 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 30 mins Tickets 410 / 360 / 310 / 180 (cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 EVGENY KISSIN piano FRANZ LISZT ( ) Ricordanza IN A FLAT MAJOR «Études d exécution transcendante» S. 139:9 SonatA IN B MINOR S. 178 Funerailles, «POETIC AND RELIGIOUS HARMONIES» S. 154:7 OBERMANN S VALLEY «Years of Pilgrimage, First Year: Switzerland» S. 160:6 Venice and Naples, «Years of Pilgrimage, Supplement to Second Year: Italy» S. 162 the russian pianist evgeny kissin has already at an early age achieved a reputation which draws capacity crowds at his solo recitals worldwide. Born in 1971, he made his debut at the age of twelve. From a child prodigy he has developed technical prowess and a personal depth of expression that has made him into a controversial but highly respected performer. On his one previous appearance in Norway, a national newspaper described his performance as displaying great beauty, at times white hot with intensity. His programme in Bergen is designed to showcase the distinctive personal style of Liszt, the great virtuoso pianist of the nineteenth century. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the composer s birth in 2011, Kissin s recital programme is amongst the most coveted at major venues in Europe, Asia and the USA. MATHIAS EICK TRUMPET, DOUBLE BASS, KEYBOARD, VIBRAPHONE MARCUS FORSGREN GUITAR, EFFECTS EVEN ORMESTAD bass, keyboard ANDREAS MJØS VIBRAPHONE, GUITAR, DRUMS, ELECTRONICS LINE HORNTVETH tuba, PERCUSSION MARTIN HORNTVETH DRUMS, DRUM MACHINES LARS HORNTVETH TENOR SAX, BASS CLARINET, GUITAR, KEYBOARD ØYSTEIN MOEN keyboard ERIK JOHANNESSEN trombone, PERCUSSION Jaga Jazzist CONSISTS of musicians who have made a considerable impression on Norwegian and international musical circles over the last decade, both in ensemble and as contributors to numerous other projects in jazz, pop, rock and electronica. Jaga is to be found in all of these genres. The musical versatility of the band was driven home last year when the album One-armed Bandit was released. The sources of inspiration for the recording ranged from Fela Kuti through Zappa to Wagner. Jaga Jazzist has a constantly expanding international following. A new world tour awaits in The Bergen International Festival is their first port of call in the Nordic countries, and they bring with them several international artists and musicians. The guest list will be published in the course of the spring. This is the first time since the 1990s that the band has included guest musicians in one of its concerts. 8 Presented in collaboration with Nattjazz 9

6 MUSIC IN GRIEGHALLEN THEATRE/DANCE GIUSEPPE VERDI MESSA DA REQUIEM PHOTO: Steve J Sherman GRIEGHALLEN TUESDAY 7 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 30 min WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 30 min Tickets 460 / 410 / 360 / 180 (cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 DEN NATIONALE SCENE STORE SCENE SATURDAY 4 JUNE TUESDAY 7 JUNE Duration approx. 3 hours (with interval) Norwegian and English surtitles Tickets 440 / 390 / 180 (cat. 1 3) Students/Children 150 ANDREW LITTON CONDUCTOR VIRGINIA TOLA soprano ANITA RACHVELISHVILI mezzo-soprano PAVEL CERNOCH tenor GEORG ZEPPENFELD bass BERGEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA HÅKON MATTI SKREDE choirmaster BERGEN PHILHARMONIC CHOIR ÅLESUND CHAMBER CHOIR COLLEGIÛM MÛSICÛM s CHOIR GIUSEPPE VERDI ( ) Messa da Requiem CHRISTOPH MARTHALER DIRECTOR ANNA VIEBROCK scenography and costumes ROSEMARY HARDY MUSICAL DIRECTOR BENDIX DETHLEFFSEN MUSICAL PRODUCTION MALTE UBENAUF/STEFANIE CARP dramaturgy GERHARD ALT assistant director PHOENIX (ANDREAS HOFER) lighting FRITZ RICKENBACHER sound VOLKSBÜHNE AM ROZA-LUXEMBURG-PLATZ workshops The final performance of the 2011 Bergen International Festival is Giuseppe Verdi s Requiem, composed in This musical icon is a monumental work depicting heaven and hell, darkness and light, yet at the same time it portrays an intimate encounter with the complex emotions which arise at the loss of a loved one. The entire gamut of human emotion anger, grief, the search for meaning, the all-important and the fragile is presented by a team of first-rate soloists and two of the city s best choirs. Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra has roots going back to 1765, making it one of the oldest orchestras in the world. The American conductor Andrew Litton has been the orchestra s music director since In recent seasons, in addition to regular concerts at home, the orchestra has toured major European concert venues and received critical acclaim internationally for its recordings plus minus zero is the point where solid and liquid meet, where solid ground becomes thin ice. Few places have more experience of this grey area than Greenland, where extreme natural conditions and social isolation dominate everyday life, and the difference between plus and minus can be the difference between life and death. But how do you adapt when your foundations start to melt? How do you find a point of reference when both the political and the physical landscape are changing? In spring 2011, director Christoph Marthaler will head for Greenland to find out what the condition actually feels like. Far from Europe s centres of culture, Marthaler s expedition will come into contact with the forgotten stories, the forgotten people and forgotten music. With Greenland s mythical world and traditions as a backdrop, this musical production will be a new arena in which different experiences and perspectives on the future meet and merge. A co-production between Bergen International Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen, Volksbühne 10 am-rosa-luxemburg-platz, Stockholms Stadsteater, Napoli Festival Teàtro Italia, Théàtre de la Ville in Paris and others. 11 Sponsored by Nordic Culture Point, Nordic Culture Fund and Freedom of Expression Foundation.

7 THEATRE/DANCE Bergen International Festival and Shanghai Theatre Academy present SOMEONE IS GOING TO COME GERPLA THE HAPPY WARRIORS STUDIO BERGEN FRI 27 MAY SAT 28 MAY SUN 29 MAY Duration approx. 1 h 20 min Performed in Mandarin, with Norwegian and English surtitles Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 DEN NATIONALE SCENE STORE SCENE THURSDAY 26 MAY SATURDAY 28 MAY Duration approx. 2 h 20 min (with interval) Performed in Icelandic, with Norwegian and English surtitles Tickets 440 / 390 / 180 (cat. 1 3) Students/Children 150 DIALOGUE: Fosse in CHINA Studio Bergen SATURDAY 28 MAY Last autumn Chinese audiences were able to experience a play by Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse for the first time when Someone Is Going to Come was performed in Shanghai. The performance was very well received and was accompanied by several workshops. Someone Is Going to Come examines paranoia and sexual jealousy between a man and woman who move to an out-of-the-way ramshackle house in order to spend time alone together. However, right from the outset they are nervous that someone is going to come. The play, first performed in 1996, was Jon Fosse s definitive breakthrough as a playwright, and is still considered one of his best works. By JON FOSSE (B. 1959) SHENG HAN artistic director LULU ZOU translation and dramaturgy YAN HE director JUN ZHANG producer WEILIE TONG set design With NINGFANG SUN, XIAOFENG MA, SHENGNAN XU DOLLS IN THE HOUSE STUDIO BERGEN SAT 28 MAY Sun 29 MAY Inspired by Ibsen s A Doll s House, students and lecturers from the Northwest University in Xi an, China have created a new performance set in contemporary China. The play analyses the conflicting roles of the individual and society, family traditions and modernity and generational differences. The harsh satirical tale of the blood brothers Thorgeir Hávarsson and Thormódur Kolbrúnarskáld has been a huge success on the Reykjavik stage. Now the National Theatre of Iceland visits Bergen with this magnificent though slightly skewed saga from Viking times, presenting some of Iceland s most highly profiled actors. The sagas have significantly affected the way Icelandic people see themselves, as they have Norwegians. Halldór Laxness, the Nobel Literature laureate, took a new look at the idealised image of Norse culture in his 1952 novel Gerpla (The Happy Warriors). The book, an incisive satire on heroworship and Viking violence, caused a major stir when it was published. It has recently been dramatised for the stage, and the result is a powerful and humorous performance. The director, Baltasar Kormákur, known from several stage plays and films (including 101 Reykjavik), has gone to town with visual and theatrical effects. Gerpla is also a crass comment on warfare, hero-worship and arrogance in our own time. THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF ICELAND DRAMATISED BY Baltasar Kormákur AND Olafur Egill Egilsson BASED ON A NOVEL BY Haldór Laxness BALTASAR KORMÁKUR DIRECTOR GRETAR REYNISSON SET DESIGN HELGA I. STEFÁNSDÓTTIR COSTUMES LÁRUS BJÖRNSSON LIGHTING DESIGN Gisli Galdur ThorgeirssoN SOUND DESIGN 12 SUPPORTED BY ibsen international 13

8 THEATRE/DANCE MANTA What happens when a dancer covers up when the body is concealed? PHOTO: Laurent Philippe CARTE BLANCHE SHARON EYAL PHOTO: SHARON EYAL DEN NATIONALE SCENE STORE SCENE MONDAY 30 MAY AND TUESDAY 31 MAY Duration approx. 1 h 10 min Tickets 290 / 240 / 180 (cat. 1 3) Students/Children 150 GRIEGHALLEN FRIDAY 3 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 10 min Tickets 460 / 410 / 360 / 180 (cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 HÉLA FATTOUMI/ERIC LAMOUREUX CHOREOGRAPHY HÉLA FATTOUMI PERFORMER ERIC LAMOUREUX MUSIC/VIDEO MARILYN ELAFAY costumes/veils STÉPHANE PAUVRET SET DESIGN XAVIER LAZARINI LIGHTING JACKIE BAUX TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION PAULINE LE BOULBA ASSISTANT As a little girl I loved playing with the white veil Tunisian women use, just as little girls pretend to be grown-up by putting on their mother s shoes, says Héla Fattoumi. Though she comes from a Muslim family, the Tunisian-French dancer has never worn a hijab herself. As time went on Fattoumi started asking questions about the many taboos she experienced growing up. Now, as an adult woman, I consider myself fortunate to have distanced myself from parts of this tradition that limits, dictates and removes opportunities. I did so by becoming an artist, making my own conditions and constantly moving, she says. Although Fattoumi has never felt pressured into covering herself up, the fierce discussion around the practice has made her both fascinated and appalled by veiled women. One day her curiosity got the better of her, and she wore a hijab to find out what makes so many women cover up their faces and bodies from the world. It was a hot day, and all sounds were muffled. She risked a movement, a step, a dance, and realised that it was as an artist with her dancer s body she would have to examine the garment. created by SHARON EYAL & GAI BACHAR CARTE BLANCHE the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance TORKEL SKJÆRVEN lighting design ORI LICHTIK MUSIC Sharon Eyal is the resident choreographer of the famous Israeli Batsheva Dance Company, but has also created performances for Carte Blanche, the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance. Many will remember Killer Pig, her audience favourite from 2009, or Love from Eyal has a strong signature. She focuses on the erotic, the androgynous, and sometimes the grotesque in her choreography. This new production with Carte Blanche centres on feelings and forms, with several references to Killer Pig, according to the choreographer. She feels affinity with the Norwegian dance company: I love Carte Blanche. The more I get to know the different people, the more I fall in love. It is a good place to create new things. Sharon Eyal has collaborated for several years with Ori Lichtik, the Israeli musician and DJ. His sound complements her powerful stage language

9 THEATRE/DANCE Den Nationale Scene PRESENTS THE WORD DEN NATIONALE SCENE LILLE SCENE WEDNESDAY 25 MAY FRIDAY 10 JUNE SATURDAYS No performance on Sundays Duration approx. 1 h 50 mins Tickets 285 Students/Children 150 Performed in Norwegian without surtitles. IN THE WORD the core themes are belief and doubt, while the play also treats the subjects of sudden death and the helplessness most people experience when it affects them. It is set in and around the Borgen family on the Borgensgård estate. Kaj Munk s play describes the various religious states in the family, from the eldest son Mikkel, who has lost faith in himself to the next eldest son Johannes, who thinks he is Jesus and is declared insane. The film of The Word, made by Carl Dreyer in 1954, won the 1955 Golden Lion in Venice, and the Bergen International Festival and Den Nationale Scene PRESENT BEFORE SUNRISE DEN NATIONALE SCENE SMÅSCENEN FRIDAY 27 MAY SATURDAY 18 JUNE SATURDAYs No performance on Sundays Duration approx. 2 hours Tickets 285 Students/Children 150 Performed in Norwegian without surtitles. What happens when a community becomes nouveau riche overnight? What does it do to the people, and how do they steward their wealth? What choices and political opportunities do they actually have? A growing part of our lives is explained as being determined by hereditary biological and chemical processes. These are among the questions asked by Tore Vagn Lid as he takes the naturalistic masterpiece written by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann in 1889 and turns it into relevant music theatre for today. Tore Vagn Lid has made his mark with his ambition to extend the scope of the theatre into a critical space for experience, and has went on to receive the American Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Film the following year. Kaj Munk ( ) was a Danish clergyman and playwright who was an active contributor to the public debate on the philosophy of life. He wrote several plays, of which the best known is The Word (1925), recognised with a place in the Danish cultural canon. After the German invasion Munk became one of the central figures of the resistance movement in Denmark, resulting in his execution by the occupying forces in directed several prize-winning performances. Gerhard Hauptmann ( ) published several dramas, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in Although his first play Before Dawn is regarded as one of the most significant dramas in the German repertoire, it has never before been performed in Norway. KRaFt & KultuR a sustainable lifestyle CoMpany proud international MaRKeting partner. Meet us in bergen May 25 - june 8, Renewable energy Kraft&Kultur is a company for people who are passionate about the environment and culture. For the past ten years we have been offering our customers energy obtained solely from renewable sources, while also building up an extensive business around culture and organic produce. CultuRe and organic products We are now one of the largest energy companies in Sweden, and also publish books and magazines on culture and travel, as well as running the biggest online store for organic goods in the Nordic market. We are currently extending our business to Norway after successfully establishing a base in Finland last year. Meet us at bergen international Festival Kraft&Kultur aims to use its business expertise to help spread good culture to as wide an audience as possible and our partnership with Bergen International Festival gives us an opportunity to do just that. For more information about the company, please come and meet us at the festival. 16 Kraft&Kultur A Sustainable Lifestyle Company kunde@kraftkultur.no

10 THEATRE/DANCE The Bergen International Festival has invited the composer Henrik Hellstenius to be in charge of four concert performances. We have called the series The Theatre of the Ear. What happens when music is performed in a new environment? In a grass-covered hall? Between the backdrop and the film screen? Sitting at the meal table with the musicians? Hellstenius s work ranges from chamber and orchestral works via electro-acoustic works to music for the theatre, film and ballet. In these four concert performances he has placed his own music and that of others in various thematic settings, all of which involve an encounter between the music and the stage elements in the form of video, text, lighting or movement. THE THEATRE OF THE EAR I-IV THURSDAY 26 MAY I 24 H/GRASS Duration approx. 2 hours WORKS BY Salvatore Sciarrino, Dans Les Arbres, Henrik Hellstenius, Carola Bauckholt, Luc Ferrari, david monacchi AND kjell samkopf With ENSEMBLE ERNST thomas rimul conductor dans LES ARBrES PETER HERRESTHAL VIOLIN DAN STYFFE DOUBLE BASS HANS KRISTIAN KJOS SØRENSEN PERCUSSION Ignas Krunglevicius video Nia Damerell set and lighting design Note! The bar is open during the performance WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE SATURDAY 28 MAY II FOUR WAYS TO DIE Duration approx. 2 h 10 min (with interval) WORKS BY Claude Vivier, Dmitri Shostakovich, Henrik Hellstenius AND Gérard Grisey With Ensemble Allegria Siri Torjesen VOCALS Hans Kristian Kjos Sørensen VOCALS Tora Augestad VOCALS BIT20 ensemble MICHAEL BARTOSCH conductor Ignas Krunglevicius video Nia Damerell set and lighting design FRIDAY 3 JUNE III GROUP THERAPY Duration approx. 1 h 30 min IV THE STORYTELLERS Duration approx. 1 h 40 min LOGEN TEATER THUR 26 MAY SAT 28 MAY WED 1 JUNE FRI 3 JUNE TICKETS 290 Students/Children 150 WORKS BY Henrik Hellstenius, klaus Lang and Ignas Krunglevicius With Cikada christian eggen conductor Ning Ignas Krunglevicius video Nia Damerell set and lighting design WORKS BY john cage, franz schubert, thierry de may, geörgy kurtag, henrik hellstenius, erik dæhlin, arne nordheim, andy smith AND luigi nono With jonas corell-petersen DIRECTOR Silje Aker Johnsen VOCALS Ning Unni Løvlid VOCALS ultron concept: Christian Immler VOCALS Florian Donderer Violin Gro Løvdahl VIOLA Tanja Tetzlaff cello Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen PERCUSSION Ignas Krunglevicius video Nia Damerell set and lighting design 18 19

11 CIRKUS CIRkOR Wear it like a crown THE FLAME of OLE BULL The new Bergen International Festival long-term project PHOTO: MATTIAS EDWALL GRIEGHALLEN SUNDAY 29 MAY AND MONDAY 30 MAY Duration approx. 2 h 25 mins (with interval) Recommend age: 8 years and up Tickets 460 / 410 / 360 / 180 (cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 TILDE BJÖRFORS concept and direction REBEKKA KARIJORD music and lyrics ENSEMBLE and ARTISTIC TEAM set design ANNA BONNEVIER costume design HELENA ANDERSSON masks ULF ENGLUND lighting design TOMAS HELSING props and set decorations JOHAN BÅÅTH film and projections CAMILLA DAMKJAER dramaturgy MOLLY SAUDEK/CILLA ROOS choreography VIKTOR SVÄLAS sound design PATRIC MARTINSSON props JOEL JEDSTRÖM sound technician LISEN BOALT producer This year s performance is named Wear it like a crown after its inspiration, Norwegian-Swedish Rebekka Karijord s song of the same name. In an absurd tragicomic show the circus director, Tilde Björfors, examines chaos and order, and how risk can easily be transformed into opportunity. On a revolving stage the artists move through a world of illusion, shadow puppetry, knife throwing, acrobatics, juggling and drama. The six characters, all lonely, try to make contact in their own way using table tennis balls, suction cups and chain saws. It is all about choosing to accept our faults, fears and defects and to wear them like a crown. And to polish the crown with pride. Cirkus Cirkör is the largest Nordic contemporary circus company. The name comes from the French cirquecoeur circus heart. The company is renowned for combining circus stunts with good stories, catchy music and clever humour. Cast LOUISE BJURHOLM, DAVID ERIKSSON, FOUZIA (FOFO) RAKEZ, JESPER NIKOLAJEFF, ANNA LAGERKVIST, HENRIK AGGER Over the coming years the last few days of the Bergen International Festival will be dedicated to a grand celebration in the spirit of the Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull. This year s project comprises over twenty concerts, master classes and dialogues. Ole Bull ( ) had a gift for talent development, international impulses and mind-blowing violin playing, and all of these aspects of Ole Bull will be reflected in the project. Attending this festival within a festival is a dream team of string players ranging from bright new talent to the iconic virtuoso Ida Haendel (82). We bring together about 200 young people from all over Norway to create a massed orchestra. On the Ole Bull stage we establish a meeting place for popular music rooted in folk music from all over the world. We will be visited by the fantastic El Sistema programme from Venezuela, which provides music education to over children, nurturing several world class musicians in recent years. At the same time we look critically at the situation of talent development in Norway. You can also follow in the footsteps of Ole Bull in the city centre please visit for further details. On the following pages you can read about all events under the auspices of The Flame of Ole Bull. 20 For other events for children and families, please visit 21

12 THE FLAME OF OLE BULL KREMERATA BALTICA THE FLAME OF OLE BULL GALA CONCERT Grieghallen SUNDAY 5 JUNE Duration approx. 2 hours (with interval) Tickets 460 / 410 / 360 / 180 (Cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 Grieghallen MONDAY 6 JUNE Duration approx. 2 hours (with interval) Tickets 460 / 410 / 360 / 180 (cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 GIDON KREMER conductor, VIOLIN KREMERATA BALTICA ARVO PÄRT (born 1935) Passacaglia for VIOLIN SOLO AND STRINGS DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH ( ) VIOLIN SONATA (ORCHESTRATED) op 134 BACH/U.A. «The Art of Instrumentation» Gidon Kremer, violinist, conductor and author, founded Kremerata Baltica as a 50th birthday present to himself. Since then the chamber orchestra, consisting of 27 young musicians from the Baltic countries, has won a Grammy prize and commissioned works from several composers, including Arvo Pärt. At this concert Kremer and Kremerata Baltica also perform their orchestrated version of Shostakovich s Violin Sonata. Their recording of the work has been critically acclaimed. In The Art of Instrumentation, Kremer has commissioned ten contemporary composers, including Giya Kancheli, to arrange Bach pieces from Glenn Gould s repertoire for chamber ensemble. The result displays great variation in sound, form and instrumentation. This is a contribution to the epoch in which we live, and a glance into the future the score extends into the kingdom of Johann Sebastian Bach, but at the same time pays homage to Glenn Gould, one of the greatest personalities in modern interpretation, writes Gidon Kremer in his comments on the work. shimmering echo of something long ago. 22 supported by the GRIEG FOUNDATION 23 PHOTO: CHRISTIAN LUT BJARTE ENGESET conductor ARVE TELLEFSEN violin VILDE FRANG violin IDA HAENDEL violin GURO KLEVEN HAGEN violin LARS ANDERS TOMTER viola TRULS MØRK cello DALASINFONIETTAN OSLO CAMERATA ANTONIO VIVALDI ( ) Concerto for Four VIolins in B flat major, opus 3 (L Estro Armonico) No 10 JOSEPH HAYDN ( ) Cello Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIb/1 ARNE NORDHEIM ( ) Nachruf OLE BULL ( ) Visit to a Summer Farm WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART ( ) Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, K.364 The legendary Ida Haendel meets several generations of Norwegian musicians in this gala concert. We ll hear musical highlights ranging from Vivaldi s breakthrough work, L estro armonico harmonic inspiration through Haydn s Cello Concerto in C major to Mozart s Sinfonia Concertante. Antonio Vivaldi s concerto for four violins, written in 1711, inspired many composers of the time. Haydn s Cello Concerto often appears in the repertoire of cello soloists thanks to its gruelling demands on technique and style. Sinfonia Concertante, composed for violin, viola and orchestra is often considered to be one of Mozart s finest works. The spirit of Ole Bull runs through the concert, and Arve Tellefsen will perform the violin virtuoso s familiar composition Visit to a Summer Farm with DalaSinfoniettan. The title of Arne Nordheim s work Nachruf for string orchestra means posthumous reputation. The work is like a long, FAMILY CONCERT Grieghallen SATURDAY 4 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 15 min Tickets 410 / 360 / 310 / 180 (Cat. 1 4) Students/Children 150 HILDE LOUISE ASBJØRNSEN compère NORSK BARNESYMFONIORKESTER The Bergen International Festival invites the whole family to join us on a journey, with composer and violinist Ole Bull as our guide.

13 THE FLAME OF OLE BULL POLTÉRA AND FRIENDS THE FLAME OF OLE BULL MOZART/ BRAHMS HÅKONSHALLEN SATURDAY 4 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 45 mins (with interval) Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 HÅKONSHALLEN SUNDAY 5 JUNE Duration approx. 1 hour Tickets 320 Students/Children TALK WITH Christian Poltéra (IN ENGLISH) HENNING KRAGGERUD VIOLIN ALEXANDER SITKOVETSKY VIOLIN LARS ANDERS TOMTER VIOLA CHRISTIAN POLTÉRA cello CHRISTIAN IHLE HADLAND piano BJARTE ENGESET conductor IDA HAENDEL VIOLIN HENNING KRAGGERUD VIOLIN OLEG KOGAN cello DALASINFONIETTAN OSLO CAMERATA ARNE NORDHEIM ( ) Clamavi FELIX MENDELSSOHN ( ) SonatA for cello AND piano no. 1 in B flat MAJOR, op. 45 ROBERT SCHUMANN ( ) 3 Fantasiestücke JOHANNES BRAHMS ( ) PIANO QUINTET IN f MINOR, op. 34 CHRISTIAN POLTÉRA, compared by the Swiss newspaper Der Bund to such renowned cellists as Mischa Maisky and Yo-Yo Ma, has appeared with orchestras throughout Europe. An avid chamber musician, he has selected some of his Norwegian colleagues to join him for this concert, which starts with Arne Nordheim s Clamavi. The work has been said to hold the key to the Norwegian composer s nerve. Accompanied by Christian Ihle Hadland he will perform Mendelssohn s first Cello Sonata, in which the melody sings with great romantic pathos. The same atmosphere continues into Schumann s fantasy pieces. Further Norwegian celebrities are involved in the final work of the concert, Brahms s Piano Quintet. The composer draws on a depth of sonority and a thematic wealth that approaches the diversity of a symphony. These musicians have collaborated on several former occasions, demonstrating their superb sensitivity in ensemble. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART ( ) VIOLIN CONCERTO no 4 i D MAJOR, K. 218 JOHANNES BRAHMS ( ) Concerto for Violin and Cello IN a minor, op. 102 Not many people can boast of more than seventy years on the international concert scene, but Ida Haendel has never stopped performing. The Polish-born violinist has impressed critics and audiences alike ever since the 1930s, and even in her teens Ida Haendel had grown into a mature artist with an international reputation. During the Bergen International Festival this Grande Dame of the Violin plays Brahms, whom she has referred to as a landmark in my life as an musician. Brahms seemed to me to be the most essential of all composers, with a wealth of heart-rending themes and original harmonies. When he was lyrical, Brahms moved my soul like none other, and his structural constructions sped up my pulse and made me dizzy with their overwhelming greatness, writes Haendel in her autobiography. She is accompanied by Oleg Kogan from the Razumovsky Academy in London, the Swedish chamber orchestra DalaSinfoniettan, and Oslo Camerata. During the first part of the concert Henning Kraggerud plays Mozart s Violin Concerto No 4 with Oslo Camerata PHOTO: TOM HENNING BRATLIE PHOTO: Razumovsky Academy

14 Foto: Helge Skodvin expect more Culture and good food Radisson Blu Hotel Norge is the official Bergen International Festival hotel. We are situated in the heart of Bergen, within walking distance to most of the concert scenes. Visit our Restaurant Ole Bull and taste our special composed Festival menues. You can choose from a wide range of dishes. Light meal from NOK 95,- 3 course Festival dinner from NOK 495,- Please visit us in Radisson Blu Hotel Norge, 1st Floor. Welcome to Ole Bull Restaurant Den Nationale Scene Logen Radisson Blu Hotel Norge Grieghallen Ph: Radissonblu.com/hotelnorge-bergen Radisson Blu Hotel Norge sales.norge.bergen@radissonblu.com 26 27

15 THE FLAME OF OLE BULL THE FLAME OF OLE BULL brahms / schoenberg NORDIC SUMMER NIGHt HÅKONSHALLEN TUESDAY 7 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 40 mins (with interval) Tickets 390 Students/Children 150 JOHANNESKIRKEN ST JOHN S CHURCH SATURDAY 4 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 50 mins (with interval) Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 KNUT HAMRE HARDANGER FIDDLE ELISE BÅTNES VIOLIN PAULS EZERGAILIS VIOLIN ARVE TELLEFSEN VIOLIN VILDE FRANG BJÆRKE VIOLIN LARS ANDERS TOMTER VIOLA IDA BRYHN VIOLA TRULS MØRK cello OLEG KOGAN Cello BJØRN SOLUM cello LEIF ARNE PEDERSEN CLARINET BJARTE ENGESET conductor DALASINFONIETTAN MATHIAS ZACHARIASSEN tenor HENNING KRAGGERUD violin FOLK TUNES Works by CARL LEOPOLD SJÖBERG ( ) JOHANNES BRAHMS ( ) LARS-ERIK LARSSON ( ) HARALD SÆVERUD CLARINET QUINTET i B minor Op. 115 ( ) AGATHE BACKER GRØNDAHL ( ) ARNOLD Schoenberg ( ) EDVARD GRIEG ( ) WILHELM STENHAMMAR Transfigured Night Op. 4 ( ) WILHELM PETERSON-BERGER ( ) PEHR HENRIK NORDGREN ( ) JEAN SIBELIUS THE HARDANGER FIDDLE opens the evening s concert ( ) and folk music with selected folk tunes, followed by Johannes Brahms s melodious but melancholic Clarinet the musical traditions of the nordic countries Quintet. Brahms had actually stopped composing have many features in common, but there are distinctive in spring 1891 when he heard the brilliant clarinettist differences too in the gamut from sprightly Richard Mühlfeld. He was so impressed that Norwegian dances and poignant Swedish songs to he started composing again, dedicating several dark Finnish melancholy. Since 2007 Bjarte Engeset works to the performer. from Norway has been the principal conduc- Brahms was referred to by Arnold Schoenberg tor of DalaSinfoniettan, the ensemble of musicians himself as a predecessor, and the latter part of working for the Falun region in Dalarna, Sweden. the concert is devoted to Transfigured Night. This By way of warming up for the release in autumn work is solidly rooted in the romantic style, but 2011 of their recording with the violinist Henning heralds the way into a new era. When it was first Kraggerud, DalaSinfoniettan visit Bergen with performed it challenged not only the musical language Nordic romantic music ranging from the care- of the day but also prevalent moral attitudes. free to the melancholic. They open with a seduc- The poem by Richard Dehmel on which the work tive homage to music, Tonerna, a song irrevocably is based was considered highly controversial in its associated with the legendary Swedish tenor time, and Schoenberg s work is filled with musical Jussi Björling. They then dance and yearn their metaphor. On a romantic moonlight walk a woman way through warm orchestral tones by Lars-Erik admits to being pregnant by another man whom Larsson and Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish folk she does not love. After a dramatic contretemps tunes and the Norwegian miniatures of Grieg and her current lover agrees to accept the child as Sæverud, before ending their journey in a Finnish his own. national romantic landscape with humour and reverie in four works by Jean Sibelius PHOTO: BERGEN REISELIVSLAG/ODDLEIV APNESETH PHOTO: sverre chr. jarild

16 THE FLAME OF OLE BULL THE FLAME OF OLE BULL MUSIC AS GPS TROLDHAUGEN THE HOME OF EDVARD GRIEG The 2011 Bergen International Festival presents a series of concerts inspired by Ole Bull, cosmopolitan, globetrotter and seafarer and by every other seafarer from Bergen. With music as a navigational aid we make for waters far and near. OLE BULL SCENE Tickets 250 STUDENTS/CHILDREN 150 grieg s VILLA Tickets 540 / 490 (Cat. 1 2) TROLDSALEN Tickets 280 Students/Children 150 TRANSPORT Free bus from Småstrandgaten to Troldhaugen CONCERT Departure 10.45, return or CONCERT Departure 21.45, return Bus journey approx. 30 minutes j. CHEN/BLEWETT TROLDSALEN Sunday 5 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 15 min JIAFENG CHen VIOLIN BRENDA BLEWETT PIANO Works by Mozart, beethoven, Debussy, dvorák AND PONCE PHOTO: SILJE GRIPSRUD THURSDAY 26 MAY Unni Løvlid & Eva Quartet (NO/BU) FRIDAY 27 MAY Kamel El Harrachi (ag) SATURDAY 28 MAY Attwenger (AU) THURSDAY 2 JUNE Gabriel Fliflet, Richard Burgess & Hordaland 80 (UK/NO) FRIDAY 3 JUNE Yoruba Andabo (CU) Presented in cooperation with Bergen International Music Festival. PLEASE VISIT for more information. MASTER CLASSES Logen teater CONCERTS START AT Tickets 90 (all) SATURDAY 4 JUNE arve tellefsen Sunday 5 JUNE MARIANNE THORSEN Monday 6 JUNE stephan barratt-due TUESDAY 7 JUNE IDA HAENDEL/oleg kogan THORSEN/GIMSE GRIEG S VILLA FRIDAY 3 JUNE SATURDAY 4 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 10 mins MARIANNE THORSEN VIOLIN HÅVARD GIMSE PIANO Works by GRIEG, HALVORSEN AND FAURÉ Marianne Thorsen is a member of the Nash Ensemble and is an established soloist in Europe. She was nominated for a Grammy award last year together with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, and also appeared as a soloist on the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra s Halvorsen recording. LEONG/BRAATEN TROLDSALEN SATURDAY 4 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 15 min kersong leong Violin LINA BRAATEN PIANO Works by Tommaso, Beethoven, Gluck, Kreisler, Bull AND Gershwin Kerson Leong (b. 1997) won the Junior 1st Prize in last year s Menuhin Competition, and has also received the Canadian Music Competition five years in a row. Jiafeng Chen (b. 1987) from Shanghai won the second prize in the Sibelius competition in 2005, and has appeared at international festivals in Switzerland, China, the USA and at the BBC Proms. HA-YOUNG JUNG TROLDSALEN Monday 6 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 15 min Ha-Young Jung DOUBLE BASS Olga Sitkovetsky piano Alexander Sitkovetsky Violin Guro Kleven Hagen Violin Oleg Kogan cello Works by Rossini, Bottesini, hindemith AND tabakov Ha-Young Jung (b. 1990) from Korea calls her double bass her life partner and has won a number of prizes and stipends. She is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. prize winners from barratt due TROLDSALEN TUESDAY 7 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 15 min Guro Kleven Hagen violin Sonoko Miriam Shimano Welde violin Eivind Ringstad Holtsmark viola Sandra Lied Haga viola Ole Eirik Ree cello Works by Schubert Students from the Barratt Due Institute of Music have made their presence felt in national and international competitions. 30 For more concerts at Troldhaugen, Lysøen, Valestrand and Siljustøl, please see pages and

17 THE FLAME OF OLE BULL VALESTRAND Tickets 350 Students/Children 150 SILJUSTØL Tickets 350 Students/Children 150 TRANSPORT Free bus from Småstrandgaten to Valestrand. CONCERT Departure from Småstrandgaten 12.00, return CONCERT Departure from Småstrandgaten 14.00, retur Bus journey approx. 45 minutes. TRANSPORT Free bus from Småstrandgaten to Siljustøl. Departure from Småstrandgaten 14.00, return Bus journey approx. 25 minutes. KJØLL/flagstad SATURDAY 4 JUNE Duration approx. 1 hour R. HEMSING/süssmann SATURDAY 4 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 10 mins CAMILLA KJØLL Violin Gunnar FLAGSTAD PIANO PHOTO: MAGNUS SKREDE LYSØEN Tickets 590 Students/Children 150 TRANSPORT Free boat from Dreggekaien to Lysøen CONCERT Departure from Dreggekaien 10.00, return CONCERT Departure from Dreggekaien 13.00, return Boat journey approx. 50 minutes HAENDEL/SITKOVETSKY SATURDAY 4 JUNE AND Duration approx. 1 hour IDA HAENDEL VIOLIN OLGA SITKOVETSKY PIANO Works by SAINT-SAËNS, ENESCU, SARASATE AND Händel Ida Haendel (b. 1928) has a career spanning generations. At this concert, she will play works by Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Händel and Enescu. Georges Enescu was one of her teachers, and Haendel has referred to him as enthralling one of the world s greatest geniuses. R. HEMSING/süssmann Sunday 5 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 10 mins RAGNHILD HEMSING VIOLIN gunilla süssmann piano Works by HALVORSEN, SUK, BEETHOVEN AND BULL Ragnhild Hemsing (b. 1988) made her debut at 13 with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and has appeared with all the great orchestras in Norway, and orchestras in Denmark, Russia, the USA and Italy. E. HEMSING/süssmann Sunday 5 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 10 mins ELDBJØRG HEMSING VIOLIN gunilla süssmann piano Works by BEETHOVEN, YSAŸE, PROKOFiEV AND BULL Eldbjørg Hemsing (b. 1990) has appeared at Wigmore Hall and at major festivals in Norway and abroad. She has won many words of praise and awards for her interpretations of the great masters. RAGNHILD HEMSING VIOLIN gunilla süssmann piano FOLK MUSIC and works by BRUSTAD, SVENDSEN, GRIEG AND BULL E. HEMSING/süssmann SATURDAY 4 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 10 mins ELDBJØRG HEMSING VIOLIN gunilla süssmann piano Works by Tchaikovsky, YSAŸE, MOZART AND BULL KLEVEN HAGEN/FLAGSTAD Sunday 5 JUNE og Duration approx. 1 h 10 mins GURO KLEVEN HAGEN Violin Gunnar FLAGSTAD PIANO Works by MOZART, YSAŸE and ShOSTAKOVIch Guro Kleven Hagen (b. 1994) is the prize winner of numerous international competitions, including the 2nd prize in the European Broadcasting Union s competition Young Musicians 2010, and EMCY s prize for Music in the Menuhin Competition Works by Chausson, Bartók AND Janáček Camilla Kjøll studied in Switzerland, the USA and at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Norway. She has appeared with Arve Tellefsen in India and Henning Kraggerud in Brazil, and plays in the Charmina quartet. SITKOVETSKY/ SITKOVETSKY Sunday 5 JUNE Duration approx. 1 hour Alexander Sitkovetsky Violin Olga Sitkovetsky piano Works by Tartini, Brahms AND Grieg Mother and son Sitkovetsky have both been affiliated with the Razumovsky Academy and the International Menuhin Music Academy for a number of years. They have also made several recordings, both separately and together

18 EARLY MUSIC ANDREAS SCHOLL PHANTASM PHOTO: JAMES MCMILLAN PHOTO: MARCO BORGREVE HÅKONSHALLEN MONDAY 30 MAY Duration approx. 1 h 40 mins (with interval) Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 DOMKIRKEN - BERGEN CATHEDRAL THURSDAY 2 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 35 mins Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 ANDREAS SCHOLL TENOR TAMAR HALPERIN cembalo, piano works by HENRY PURCELL ( ) JOHN DOWLAND ( ) GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL ( ) THOMAS CAMPION ( ) FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN ( ) AND FOLK TUNES Andreas Scholl had six thousand people on the edge of their seats when he sang Handel arias in the BBC Proms some years ago. The German counter-tenor has released several critically acclaimed recordings. His repertoire spans from opera and baroque music to folk tunes. In the autumn of 2010 he released his first album of music by Henry Purcell, O Solitude. A critic in a Bergen newspaper gave the CD top marks, commenting that Scholl sings it all with his expressive high voice, sounding so different from everything with which we are familiar ethereal, supernatural, at times eerily exotic. And the unusual voice makes all the old songs radiate and sparkle. The Bergen International Festival concert opens with Purcell s Music for a While (from Dryden and Lee s Oedipus), which Scholl considers to be one of the greatest songs ever written. He is accompanied by the Israeli soloist and chamber musician Tamar Halperin. LAURENCE DREYFUS conductor og TREBLE VIOL WENDY GILLESPIE TREBLE VIOL JONATHAN MANSION TENOR VIOL MARKKU LUOLAJAN-MIKKOLA BASS VIOL MIKKO PERKOLA tenor AND bass VIOLS EMILIA BENJAMIN TENOR VIOL WORKS BY WILLIAM BYRD (ca ) WILLIAM LAWES ( ) JOHN WARD (ca ) ORLANDO GIBBONS ( ) The early music ensemble Phantasm made its first major breakthrough when its first CD received the Gramophone Award for best instrumental Baroque recording in Since then the ensemble has recorded a further 12 CDs, won several awards and been named Consort in Residence at Oxford University, where they teach, perform, and collaborate with student viol players and organists. Phantasm like to take chances in their quest to bring early music to life. Laurence Dreyfus, the founder, taught at Yale and Stanford before coming to Oxford. The ensemble has received critical acclaim worldwide for its concerts, where they focus particularly on the intricate fantasias of Byrd and Gibbons and works by Lawes and Purcell. Phantasm is truly in a class of its own, wrote Gramophone on Consorts in Six Parts with music by William Lawes

19 EARLY MUSIC THE NORWEGIAN SOLOISTS CHOIR PHOTO: ANNIKEN C MOHR TRIO MEDIæVaL PHOTO: Åsa Maria Mikkelsen HÅKONSHALLEN TUESDAY 31 MAY Duration approx. 2 hours Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 DOMKIRKEN - BERGEN CATHEDRAL WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 10 mins Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 GRETE PEDERSEN conductor DET NORSKE SOLISTKOR BJØRNAR HABBESTAD FLUTE ROLF BORCH CONTRABASS CLARINET ALVISE VIDOLIN LIVE ELECTRONICS ALTA PUNTA giovanni gabrieli ( ) Symfoniae Sacrae The Norwegian Soloists Choir has a long tradition of appearing at the Festival, and there is always a special atmosphere at their concerts. This year s programme spans many centuries. Towards the end of his career the composer Luigi Nono wrote a series of works connected to the myth of Prometheus. In typically gentle tones Nono takes a close look at space as a living instrument. It is also about space within the music itself how voices, instruments, electronics and acoustics affect one another and about the philosophical space between thought, language and an LUIGI NONO ( ) Io, Frammento de Prometeo outer world. Io, Frammento de Prometeo (1981) is written for three soloists, a small choir, bass flute, contrabass clarinet and live electronics. The work is built on textual fragments by Aeschylus, Euripides, Herodotus, Hölderlin, Pindarus and Sappho. Nono s work meets music by Giovanni Gabrieli, who experimented with music and space almost 300 years earlier in Luigi Nono s native city, Venice. As the organist of St Mark s Cathedral, Gabrieli was concerned about the exact positioning of the groups of instrumentalists and singers in the church. TRIO MEDIÆVAL a worcester ladymass - anon 13th century, england Salve sancta parens Kyrie Gloria Munda Maria O Maria, virgo pia Benedicta / Virgo dei genitrix Felix namque Salve, rosa florum Grata iuvencula De Supernis sedibus Dulciflua tua memoria Sanctus Agnus dei Beata viscera Alma dei genitrix Benedicamus DOMINO Ave Regina gloriosa Music was a central feature of everyday life and celebrations alike for nuns and monks in early mediaeval England. Most of the church music of the time has passed into oblivion, but in Worcester Cathedral over a hundred anonymous compositions from the era were discovered, having been used as padding in the process of bookbinding. From this unique material Trio Mediæval have compiled A Worcester Ladymass a mass to the Virgin Mary, supplemented by contributions by Gavin Bryars. The three voices blended with a supernatural clarity and beauty that might cause even a confirmed agnostic to contemplate a spark of divinity in these centuries-old manuscripts, wrote the New York Times. Trio Mediæval, who were Musicians in Residence at the 2007 Bergen International Festival, have for several years spellbound audiences worldwide with their beautiful voices and polyphonic music. Their repertoire spans from mediaeval English and French music and traditional Norwegian ballads to contemporary music written specially for the ensemble

20 CHAMBER MUSIC BEETHOVEN S CELLO SONATAS Khatia Buniatishvili PHOTO: MORTEN KROGVOLD PHOTO: JULIA WESELY HÅKONSHALLEN THURSDAY 26 MAY and FRIDAY 27 MAY THURSDAY Duration approx. 1 h 40 mins (with interval) and FRIDAY Duration approx. 2 hours (with interval) Tickets 390 Students/Children 150 HÅKONSHALLEN THURSDAY 2 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 15 min Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 TRULS MØRK cello HÅVARD GIMSE piano KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI Piano THURSDAY 26 MAY: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ( ) sonata no 1 in f MAJOR, op 5 no 1 SonatA no 4 in C MAJOR, op 102, no 1 12 VARIATIONS ON «See the Conquering Hero comes» FROM Händel s Judas Maccabeus SonatA no 3 IN A MAJOR, op 69 FRIDAY 27 MAY: SonatA no 2 IN g MINOR, op 5 no 2 12 VARIATIONS ON «Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen» from MOZART S THE MAGIC FLUTE 7 VARIATIONS ON «Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen» from MOZART S THE MAGIC FLUTE SonatA no 5 in d MAJOR, op 102 NO 2 Beethoven s five sonatas for cello and piano describe in many ways a journey through the composer s life. They represent three stages: the first two were written when the young composer was making his name as a concert pianist. The Cello Sonata in A major was written at a time when his deafness was already acute, while he composed numbers four and five in 1815, the year that marked the start of his last creative period. 38 The concert programme is exactly the same as that of Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim in the 1970 Bergen International Festival. Truls Mørk, cello, is known for his raw intensity, a reputation he has built up through performances worldwide. He plays here with Håvard Gimse, who has made over 30 recordings and won the Grieg Prize, the Steinway Prize and the Sibelius Prize. FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN ( ) 3 ScherzI SonatA no 2 FRANZ LISZT ( ) Mefisto WalTZ no 1 IGOR STRAVINSKY ( ) 3 MOVEMENTS from PetrusHka The piano is a complete instrument. It needs no other instruments, and can exist entirely alone, claims Khatia Buniatishvili. Many musicians and journalists regard the prize-winning pianist as one of the great musicians of the future. She is a BBT 2010 Award Winner and a member of BBC Radio 3 s New Generation Artists Scheme. Khatia Buniatishvili grew up in a musical family in Georgia. She feels that Georgian folk music has had a strong influence on her musicality: When you are surrounded by music all the time as a child, it gets into your head and makes you play more freely, without being so systematic and dogmatic. Critics have described her style as melancholic and withdrawn, but Buniatishvili does not consider this to be negative. For her freedom is closely related to solitude. The piano is the darkest instrument a symbol of musical loneliness that even pianists have to get used to. Perhaps it is lonely, perhaps it is just a little sad and a little too gloomy, but I think it is beautiful, she says. 39

21 CHAMBER MUSIC Kopatchinskaja & SAY PHOTO: MARCO BORGERVE IHLE HADLAND PLAYS BACH PHOTO: ANDERS BERGERSEN HÅKONSHALLEN FRIDAY 3 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 30 mins (with interval) Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 JOHANNESKIRKEN ST JOHN S CHURCH FRIDAY 3 JUNE Duration approx. 1 h 30 mins (with interval) Tickets 320 Students/Children 150 PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA Violin FAZIL SAY Piano CHRISTIAN IHLE HADLAND Piano LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ( ) VIOLIN SONATA in A MAJOR no 9 op. 47, THE Kreutzer sonata MAURICE RAVEL ( ) VIOLIN SONATA BÉLA BARTÓK ( ) Romanian Folk Dances FAZIL SAY (b. 1970) VIOLIN SONATA J.S. Bach ( ) PARTITA NO 1 IN B FLAT MAJOR BWV 825. FANTASIA AND FUGUE IN A MINOR BWV 904, ENGLISH SUITE NO 2 IN A MINOR BWV 807 C.P.E. Bach: ( ) SONATA NO 2 IN B FLAT MAJOR FROM 6 PRUSSIAN SONATAS (WQ48/H25), SONATA NO 1 IN A MINOR FROM 6 WÜRTTEMBERG SONATAS (WQ49/H30) I have dreamt of making music like this; you don t hear but rather feel the music with your whole body, with your eyes, all your senses, says Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The Moldovan violinist, known for her bold, expressive interpretations and untraditional stage performances, feels that her musical encounter with the Turkish pianistcomposer Fazil Say changed her life. We are on the same musical wavelength, says Say. In Håkonshallen their performance will include Beethoven s famous A major Violin Sonata, which they have also recorded together. This is far from being just another recording of the Kreutzer Sonata. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say share a radical approach, performing each musical gesture in the most vivid way It s undeniably exciting, wrote The Gramophone of their CD, which also contains the repertoire of this Festival concert. Except for a few obvious similarities, such as shared DNA, there is very little that Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach had in common, according to Christian Ihle Hadland, who has performed in the Bergen International Festival on several occasions before. Whereas Johann Sebastian Bach s music may sometimes give a feeling of being so formally perfect that its very perfection overshadows the personal expression of the performer, the music of his second eldest son is a very different matter. Although the Baroque period was far from over, we already note the rumblings of Sturm und Drang in the distance, says Christian Ihle Hadland, adding that sonata form, developing at this time, was an important prerequisite for the coming Viennese Classical period. Mozart and Haydn admired CPE Bach enormously. Mozart said, He is the father, we are the children

22 THE NORWEGIAN SOLOIST PRIZE PHOTO: Kunstmuseene i Bergen During the Bergen International Festival the Norwegian Soloist Prize will be awarded to an especially talented young instrumentalist. This year the competition has been extended to all of the Nordic countries, and each of the five largest Nordic orchestras has selected a candidate. Each musician will give a concert in Troldsalen before coming together in Håkonshallen, where the winner will be announced. The prize, donated by Bernt Fossum, is Norwegian kroner. TROLDSALEN Tickets 280 Students/Children 150 FINALE IN HÅKONSHALLEN Tickets 290 Students/Children 150 Free bus from Småstrandgaten to Troldhaugen CONCERT 11.30: Departure 10.45, return or CONCERT kl 14.00: Departure return Bus journey approx. 30 min JAKOB KORANYI THURSDAY 26 MAY TROLDSALEN Duration approx. 1 h 15 min The Swedish cellist Jakob Koranyi (born 1983) attracted attention when he won the 2nd Grand Prize at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in He has been described as absolutely rock- em-sock- em, mesmerizingly perfect. JAkOB KORANYI cello peter friis johansson piano JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH ( ) Prelude, Sarabande and Gigue in D Major, BWV 1012 No. 6, Suite for solo cello No. 6 CLAUDE DEBUSSY ( ) Sonata for cello in D Minor, L 135 No. 1 GYÖRGY LIGETI ( ) Solo sonata for cello JOHANNES BRAHMS ( ) Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38 SUPPORTED BY THE NORDIC CULTURE FUND. VISA SIPPOLA FRIDAY 27 MAY TROLDSALEN Duration approx 1 h 15 min The Finnish pianist Visa Sippola (born 1993) has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Finland, Estonia, Germany, the UK and the USA, in addition to conducting the Helsinki Youth Symphony Orchestra. Among the prizes he has received is the Young Talent Prize of the Finnish national broadcasting corporation, YLE. VISA SIPPOLA piano Sergey Prokofiev ( ) Visions fugitives op. 22 nr MUZIO CLEMENTI ( ) Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 24 No. 2 FRANZ LISZT ( ) Sonata in B Minor, S. 178 Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir SATURDAY 28 MAY TROLDSALEN Duration approx. 1 h 15 min The Icelandic violinist Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir (born 1985) has given solo performances with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Royal Chamber Orchestra and the Freiburg Academic Orchestra, and has collaborated with several German chamber ensembles. ELFA RÚN KRISTINSDÓTTIR violin FRANÇOIS LAMBRET piano GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN ( ) Fantasia for solo violin in E flat Major No. 7 SALVATORE SCIARRINO (B. 1947) Caprices for Solo Violin ROBERT SCHUMANN ( ) Sonata for violin and piano Op. 121 Andreas Brantelid SATURDAY 28 MAY TROLDSALEN Duration approx. 1 h 15 min The Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid (born 1987) won the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition in He is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, and his debut performances this season include a concert in the Concertgebouw with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra. ANDREAS BRANTELID cello christian ihle hadland piano ROBERT SCHUMANN ( ) 5 Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102 LEOŠ JANáčEK ( ) Pohádka, JW 7/5, The Story of Tsar Berendyey SERGEJ RACHMANINOV ( ) Sonata for cello and piano in G Minor, Op. 19 ANDERS KJELLBERG NILSSON SUNDAY 29 MAY TROLDSALEN Duration approx. 1 h 15 min The Norwegian violinist Anders Kjellberg Nilsson (born 1983) made his first Bergen International Festival appearance in He is one of few young musicians to have had a concerto written for him. An uncommonly versatile musician, he plays both violin and viola, and has received acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician, instructor, orchestral violinist and musical director. ANDERS kjellberg NILSSON VIOLIN/VIOLA TOR ESPEN ASPAAS piano Krzysztof Penderecki (B. 1933) Cadenza for Solo Viola Claude Debussy ( ) Sonata for Violin in G Minor, L. 140 Arnold Schoenberg ( ) Fantasy, Op. 47 Johannes Brahms ( ) Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 78 No. 1 FINALE THE NORWEGIAN SOLOIST PRICE SUNDAY 29 MAY HÅKONSHALLEN Duration approx. 1 h 40 min All five candidates will perform at the finale concert before the Norwegian Soloist Prize is awarded

23 NORWEGIAN LANDINGS GET A WEEKEND CRASH-COURSE IN NORWEGIAN MUSIC! The composers homes and Logen are the venues of a concert series presenting familiar Norwegian works. Presiding over the series is the violinist Peter Herresthal, professor at the Norwegian National Academy of Music and at The Royal College London. At the heart of the series is the music of Arne Nordheim and Harald Sæverud, who were diametrical opposites in the 1960s, when a new generation of composers started a revolution against the national romantic style in search of a new musical language. THE CITY SQUARE - TORGALLMENNINGEN Saturday 28 MAY FREE OF CHARGE Duration approx. 1 hour NORWEGIAN LANDINGS OPENING THE NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES BAND, WESTERN NORWAY PETER SZILVAY CONDUCTOR SVERRE RIISE trombone PETER KATES TROND MADSEN PERCUSSION HARALD SÆVERUD ( ) The Devil s Five-Hop, op. 28 no. 1 ROLF Wallin (B. 1957) FrOM Stonewave OLAV ANTON Thommessen (B. 1946) Stabsarabesk Arne Nordheim ( ) Hunting of the snark for solotrombone KNUT Vaage (B. 1961) Forward March SVEIN HENRIK Giske (B. 1973) Nystemten SILJUSTØL Saturday 28 MAY Tickets 350 Student/Barn 150 ENSEMBLE ERNST Duration approx. 1 hour ENSEMBLE ERNST JAKOB KULLBERG cello ROLF WALLIN (B. 1957) Scratch JON ØYVIND NESS (B. 1968) New Work for Trombone and Wind Quintet ØRJAN MATRE (B. 1979) CHANT ARNE NORDHEIM ( ) From Solo Suite for Cello HARALD SÆVERUD ( ) Wind Quintet VALESTRAND Saturday 28 MAY and TICKETS 350 Student/Barn 150 ÖVINGE/BJELLAND Duration approx. 1 h 15 mins SARA ÖVINGE violin (intro-musician) ELLEN NISBETH viola SVEINUNG BJELLAND piano ARNE NORDHEIM ( ) Dance you Monster FROM Partita OLE BULL ( ) Concerto fantastico, 1st and 2nd movement GISLE KVERNDOKK (B. 1967) Through the looking-glass, Kverndokk Händel/Halvorsen ( ) Passacaglia LOGEN TEATER Sunday 29 MAY Tickets 280 Student/Barn 150 NORWEGIAN MASTERPIECES Duration approx. 1 hour Excerpts from Sæverud and Nordheim s caustic verbal exchanges and some of the best known music in the country. ENSEMBLE ALLEGRIA PETER HERRESTHAL Violin JAKOB KULLBERG Cello STAFFAN SCHEJA piano LYSØEN Saturday 28 MAY & Sunday 29 MAY & Tickets 590 Students/Children 150 TELLEFSEN/GIMSE Duration approx. 1 h 15 mins ARVE TELLEFSEN violin HÅVARD GIMSE piano Works by Grieg, Halvorsen, SVENDSEN AND NORDHEIM Sunday 29 MAY Tickets 350 Student/Barn 150 NORWEGIAN CONTRASTS Duration approx. 1 hour STINE AARØNES violin INGVILD HABBESTAD violin ELLEN NISBETH viola AUDUN SANDVIK cello HARDANGER FIDDLE TUNES HARALD SÆVERUD ( ) From Duets for Two Violins, Op. 32 String Quartet, Op. 49 No. 1 ARNE NORDHEIM ( ) Brudd for viola EDVARD GRIEG ( ) String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27 No. 1 Sunday 29 MAY and Tickets 350 Student/Barn 150 C. Chen/ Bjelland Duration approx. 1 h 30 mins CATHARINA CHEN violin (intro-musician) SVEINUNG BJELLAND piano OLE BULL ( ): la verbena de san juan cantabile doloroso e rondo giocoso CHRISTIAN SINDING ( ): Cantus Doloris, OP. 78 ØISTEIN SOMMERFELDT ( ): Sonata for Solo Violin HARALD SÆVERUD ( ): Romance TRANSPORT TO LYSØEN HARALD SÆVERUD ( ) FREE boat from Dreggekaien Kjempeviseslåtten CONCERT ARNE NORDHEIM ( ) Departure 10.00, return TRANSPORT TO SILJUSTØL TRANSPORT TO VALESTRAND Superduplex for violin/cello AND strings CONCERT Free bus from Småstrandgaten Free bus from Småstrandgaten ODD GRÜNER-HEGGE ( ) Departure 13.00, return ELEGY for strings Departure 14.00, return CONCERT ChristiaN SINDING ( ) The boat journey takes approx. 50 min The bus journey takes approx. 25 minutes. Departure 12.00, return Frühlingsrauchen CONCERT EDVARD GRIEG ( ) Departure 14.00, return FROM HOLBERG S TIME, OP The bus journey takes approx 45 minutes. 45 PHOTO: HELGE SKODVIN

24 AT TROLDHAUGEN BE CAPTIVATED! PHOTO: HELGE HANSEN Antti Siirala FRI 27 MAY SAT 28 may & GRIEG S VILLA Duration approx. 1 h 10 min Tickets 540 / 490 (cat. 1 2) Students/Children 150 Antti Siirala is a well-established pianist on the European concert stage, and wowed the Festival audience with her performance of Grieg s Concerto in A minor in ANTTI SIIRALA piano Works by GRIEG, CHOPIN and BEETHOVEN KIELLAND SINGS HAUGTUSSA THURSDAY 2 JUNE TROLDSALEN Duration approx. 1 h 15 min Tickets 280 Students/Children 150 Marianne Beate Kielland s beautiful, expressive voice has made her a popular concert singer, and she has participated in over twenty recordings. On this occasion we will also hear song cycles by Weber and Schoenberg, as a contrast to Grieg. DE LANGE/ The Norwegian Soloists Choir FRIDAY 3 JUNE TROLDSALEN Duration approx. 1 h 15 min Tickets 280 Students/Children 150 Live de Lange has already established herself as a talented conductor, and this Festival performance is her examination concert. Together with the Norwegain Soloists Choir she presents four of Monteverdi s madrigals. LIVE DE LANGE CONDUCTOR THE NORWEGIAN SOLOISTS CHOIR Works by CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI TRANSPORT TO TROLDHAUGEN Free bus from Småstrandgaten CONCERT Departure 10.45, return or CONCERT Departure 19.45, return or CONCERT Departure 21.45, return Bus journey approx. 30 minutes FORMER BERGEN COUNTY JAIL NEXT TO THE CITY HALL FRIDAY 27 MAY SATURDAY 28 MAY SATURDAY 28 MAY sunday 29 MAY FRIDAY 3 JUNE SATURDAY 4 JUNE SATURDAY 4 JUNE sunday 5 JUNE CHECK IN CHECK OUT SINGLE CELL 900 PER PERSON IN DOUBLE CELL 500 PER PERSON IN 4-PERSON CELL 400 student 150 (LIMITED AVAILABILITY) During your stay supper and breakfast will be served, and the beds in the cells are made. Bergen International Festival Exhibition 2011 Hanne Borchgrevink SPEND THE NIGHT in the former Bergen County Jail, and join a tour into the universe of the artist Kurt Johannessen. His poetic, minimalistic and often humorous form will make its mark on the prison, and in the course of their twelve hour stay overnight guests will have a unique series of experiences. Artists and musicians have been invited to make this night a special one. Bergen County Jail opened in 1867 and was in normal use until Now a listed building, it has since remained unused except for a couple of art projects. Now after thorough spring cleaning for this Bergen International Festival project, the prison nevertheless shows evidence of its former life. Knut Johannessen specialises in performance, books and installations. Since the early 1980s he has produced some 200 performance pieces in Europe, Asia and America. In collaboration with the City of Bergen and the Bergen National Academy of the Arts Hanne Borchgrevinck (born 1951) is the 2011 Festival Exhibitor in Bergen Kunsthall. The Festival Exhibition has existed for 57 years and is well established as one of Norway s major solo exhibitions. Hanne Borchgrevinck was one of the central characters in the renaissance of figurative painting in Norway. She is a master of formal, colouristic and perspectivist effects. MARIANNE BEATE KIELLAND mezzo soprano The 2011 Festival Exhibition, the largest celebration of NILS MORTENSEN piano her artistic production to date, will consist exclusively of Works by GRIEG, Schoenberg and WEBERN new works. 46 For more concerts at Troldhaugen, Lysøen, Valestrand and Siljustøl, please see pages and PHOTO: BERGENS TIDENDE

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