The choir "Oslo chorale selskap" gave the world premiere to this new christmas hymn in Oslo 17th december 2014. The lyrics were written by Elias Blix.
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.
The concert, transmitted directly i from the Methodist church in Tallinn on estonian radio, had a program of 5 world premiers. The conductor of RAM is Mikk Ûleoja.
New cd released:Henrik Ødegaard's entire organ music, so far! This production contains two organ concertos with string orchestra, two partitas for organ solo, "Twin song" for organ og piano and "We will all be changed" for organ and brass ensemble. In addition to the organist Ghislain Gourvennec can you hear Telemark chamber orchestra, Telemark brass ensemble and the pianist Gudrun Klakegg. iTunes CD-s can also be ordered from Henrik Ødegaard. Price: NOK 150. A new composistion in Henrik Ødegaard´s "Antiphona"-cycle, this one for euphonium solo, gained the 3. price in the "Lieksa brass week" international composition competition. The aim of the competition has been to provide new pieces for the euphonium competition of this years Brass Week. The young, but still well established trumpet soloist Tine Thing Helset performs Henrik Ødegaard´s "Antiphona VI" in the last concert of this years "Gloger Festival" in Kongsberg, Norway. In the big and very beautiful baroque churchit v will be a part og i mixed program with music composed by Roman, Mozart, Hindemith and norwegian contemporary composers. The St. Olav festival in Trondheim has comissioned this suite in 10 movements. Trine Knutsen performed the new piece in Nidaros cathedral during the night between 28.-29. og july. The single movements introduced the different hours in the St. Olav office, and they take their melodic themes from antiphons in the office. My instrumental pieces Antiphona" I-VI are now published by Norsk Musikforlag. In these solo compositions I have a traditional gregorian antiphone as melodic point of departure (exept in no. I). Then I have expanded the simple, diatonic motives in different ways, as to be part of a more complex tonal structure. The compositions can be performed together with the traditional antiphone (sung before the "Antiphona" is played) or on its own hand. Norsk musikkforlag Here I show samples from the six pieces: |