The vocal ensemble "Cantare" in Fredrikstad, Norway has this winter worked intensively with their project "Folksongs from Østfold county". Wednesday 21th september yhey will give world premiere to this proprem, that contains 8 new compositions by Henrik Ødegaard, based on old melodies fróm Østfold. The first performance is in Litteraturhuset, Fredrikstad, and the next evening the program will be repeated in Sarpsborg church. 
Liv Ulvik (folk singer) and Marianne Tomasgård (fiddler) vil perform local songs and fiddle pieces, together and separately. Both musicians are well respected performers, and this evenings the have found exiting music fra Østfold county.
Conductor for the vocal ensemble and inspiring motor for the project is Randi Margrethe Clausen Aarflot.
See Cantare

Ingrid Elisateth Tobiassen Berg gives world premiere to Henrik Ødegaards new composition "A solis ortus cardine" for singing, female organist during a lunch concert in Oslo cathedral  june 25. at 12:00. The piece can also be performed by choir and and organist, but the original idea is that it is the same musician shall do both singing and playing.Wich Ingrid Berg is fully able to do! See also: Oslo cathedral

The label Grong musikkproduksjon presents av new cd with Henrik
Ødegaard's music for solo voices, compositions from the period
1996-2013. You will find solo pieces, songs with piano- or harp-
accompagnement, and two larger compositions for vocal ensemble.

The cd contains:

1     Antiphona I (1996) Berit Solset 3:15
2     I fred vil eg leggja meg ned (2001) Berit Opheim 7:37
3     In the bleak midwinter (2001/6) Berit Solset |
       Malgorzata Milewska Sundberg 3:59
4     Ditt blåe vatn du (2004) Berit Opheim | Aasmund Nordstoga 14:48
       Three blake songs (2005/6) Berit Solset | Gudrun Klakegg
5         The Lamb 3:04
6         The Tiger 2:33
7         A Cradle Song 5:10
8     Såmannen og skapningane (2009) NORDIC VOICES 15:34
9     Ave verum corpus (2010) NORDIC VOICES 12:15
10   Syng i stille morgonstunder (2013) vokalgruppen Fauna 3:31

Sound engineer:: Åsgeir Grong
Producer: Henrik Ødegaard
English translations: Keith Griggs
Grafic design: Jorunn Småland

GMP 15019
Grong musikkprodujsjon

scored for female singing organist or womens choir and organ. 

The concert took place in the great university hall in Riga, and consisted of as many as 17 world premieres, new pieces made of composers from 17 countries! Many of the composers were present the whole week-end, invited to take part in a very nice program, with the concert satyrday evening as the peak point.