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BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2015
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The Norwegian
Soloist Prize
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T RO L D H AU G E N
T RO L D SA LE N
DAT E/ T I M E
Listed under each
candidate
Endre
Rydland Vetås
1:00
OT H ER
Nordic Soloist Finals,
p. 41
T IC KET *
Full price: 260
Under 30: 150
Entrance to the
museum/Grieg’s Villa
and transportation
included in the ticket.
More information on
page 84.
Eva
Thórarinsdóttir
Candidate for Iceland
– violin
*Festival card:
40 %–30 % discount
Magnus
Holmander
Candidate for Sweden
– clarinet
DATE / TIME
Follow the Nordic candidates
for the Norwegian Soloist Prize
2015 to the finale.
On Saturday 30 May the winner of
the 2015 Norwegian Soloist Prize will
be announced at the conclusion of a
concert in Håkonshallen involving all
candidates. Before the final concert
each of the young musicians will give
a one-hour recital in Troldsalen with
music of their own choice.
Supported by the
Nordic Culture Fund.
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Thursday 28 May at 11:30
Thursday 28 May at 14:00
Eva, born 1986 in Reykjavik, gained a
place at the Yehudi Menuhin School of
Music in Surrey at the age of twelve,
and in doing so received numerous
bookings in celebrated concert venues
in England. She has taken first prize at
many international violin competitions
and performed with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra, the Icelandic Symphony
Orchestra and the Odense Symphony
Orchestra. She is currently second violin in the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester
while pursuing a busy solo career.
She is certain that her programme in
Troldsalen will include a work by the
Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.
Magnus, born 1993 in Askim, attends
the Royal Academy of Music in
Stockholm, and has won several
Swedish prizes. He collaborates closely with the celebrated clarinettist
Martin Fröst, including involvement
in his production Dollhouse, in which
Magnus has been engaged not only
as a musician, but also as a dancer
and magician. He loves performing,
and is not averse to including dance
steps or surprise stunts in his concert
performances.
'It is insanely challenging and great
fun to play this piece; you have to
let yourself go a bit mad. Audiences
usually love it too – perhaps because
my arms move so fast that they seem
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to go out of joint. Otherwise I love the
magic moments at concerts when you
can almost hear a pin drop.'
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'I am in love with the sound of the
clarinet, and I really appreciate the
way the instrument jumps so effortlessly between various genres such
as classical and jazz. My solo concert
programme will be traditional clarinet music such as Schumann's fantasy pieces alongside contemporary
music.'
Jonathan
Roozeman
Candidate for Norway
– trombone
D U RAT IO N
Candidate for Finland
– cello
DAT E / T IME
DAT E / T IME
Friday 29 May at 11:30
Saturday 30 May at 11:30
Endre, born 1995, grew up in Radøy
north of Bergen, in the heart of brass
band country. A former member of
Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag, the
first non-British band to win the
European brass band championships, he is currently on leave from his
studies at the Norwegian Academy
of Music to be principal trombonist
with the Kristiansand Symphony
Orchestra. He has performed with
the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the
Norwegian Opera Orchestra. In this
concert he aims to demonstrate the
versatility of his instrument.
Jonathan, born in 1997, started
playing at the age of two, and has
trained at the Sibelius Academy in
Helsinki since 2009. He is a member
of the Jean Sibelius Youth Orchestra,
and has performed at international
chamber music festivals. He has
also participated in numerous major
competitions, which he believes is
an important part of the learning
process.
'The trombone has an enormous
range of tone colour, and my concert
programme features a variety of styles spanning several centuries. I hope
the audience will enjoy the different
moods and perhaps experience some
aspects of the trombone that they
were not