Espen Langvik
Posted on | July 6, 2010 | No Comments
Espen Langvik er utdannet fra Rogaland Musik- konservatorium, Statens Operahøgskole og Mannes College of Music i New York.
Han har gjestet de fleste operascener i Norge, og gjort roller som Figaro i både Barberen i Sevilla og Figaros Bryllup, Belcore i Elskovsdrikken, Zaren i Zar und Zimmermann, Alfio i Cavalleria Rusticana tittelrollen i Eugene Onegin, Germont [...]
Ieva Maria Struzaite
Posted on | July 6, 2010 | No Comments
Ieva Maria Struzaite er utdannet ved Griegakademiet i Bergen og Barratt Due under Jiri Hlinka og er bosatt i Norge siden 1993. Opprinnelig kommer hun fra Vilnius, Litauen, hvor hun begynte med piano i en alder av fem år og kom etter hvert under utdannelse hos S. Laukaviciute. Hun ble uteksaminert ved M. K. Ciurlionis [...]
Helen Kedik
Posted on | July 6, 2010 | No Comments
Helen Kedik er født i Tallin, Estland og begynte å spille fiolin som 5-åring under musikkakademiet i Tallin. Fortsatte med fiolin i noen år før hun gikk over til bratsj og studier ved Det Estlandske Musikkakademiet. Hun har videre studert ved Musikkhøgskolen i Karlsruhe ved studium for solo- og kammermusikk.
Hun har konsertert i mange land; [...]
Sebastian Stevensson
Posted on | July 6, 2010 | No Comments
Fagottisten Sebastian Stevensson är född i en musikalisk familj i Sigtuna, Sverige 1987. Han började spela klarinett som 9-åring innan han två år senare bytte till fagott. Som 16-åring kom han in på Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm där han studerade 4 år för norrmannen Knut Sönstevold.
Vid sidan av sina studier där fick han dessutom inspiration [...]
Jacob Lech
Posted on | July 6, 2010 | No Comments
Bassbaritonen Jacob Lech, utdannet ved det Fynske Musikkkonservatorium i 2008, debuterte i 2002 i rollen som Oduardo i Ariodante på Den Fynske Opera hvor han siden har sunget rollene Uberto i Serva Pedrona, 2. Harniskledte i Tryllefløyten og Pyramus i Niels Martinsens Hul Igennem.
Som oratorie- og konsertsolist har han sunget bass-partierne i Fynsk Forår i [...]
Dag Bernhard Ulseth – Konferansier
Posted on | July 6, 2010 | No Comments
Dag Bernhard Ulseth er utdannet dramapedagog og teaterviter i fødebyen Trondheim. Han arbeider i dag som guide ved Den Norske Opera og Ballett, og som freelancer holder han også uhøytidelige foredrag om opera og operahistorie.
Dan Styffe
Posted on | July 4, 2010 | No Comments
Dan Styffe er bosatt i Oslo men er opprinnelig fra Sverige. Styffe begynte som el-bassist i rock- og jazzsammenheng men gikk over til klassiske basstudier med Göran Nyberg i Sverige før han fortsatte hos Knut Guettler i Oslo og Gary Karr in USA.
Han ble i 1982 ansatt som solobassist i Det Norske Operaorkester hvor han [...]
Elisabeth Wentland
Posted on | June 17, 2010 | No Comments
Elisabeth Wentland was born in 1989 in Hoyerswerda, Germany. She started playing the flute at the age of seven. After she finished the Special Music School for young talented musicians in Dresden she started her flute studies at the “ Musikhochschule Carl Maria von Weber” Dresden in 2009 with Prof. Stephane Réty. During this time [...]
Albrecht Krauß
Posted on | June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Albrecht Krauß was born in 1983 in Dresden, Germany. After finishing his studies at the Musikhochschule „Carl Maria von Weber“ Dresden and the „Toho Gakuen“ Academy Toyama (Japan) he is now a postgraduate student with Prof. Matthias Bäcker at the Musikhochschule „Franz Liszt“ Weimar. He has participated in Master Classes with Prof. Matthias Bäcker (Weimar), [...]
Mei Yi Foo
Posted on | June 16, 2010 | No Comments
Hailed “a pianist to watch” by BBC Radio 3, “Rising Star” by International Piano Magazine, and the winner of the Maria Callas Grand Prix, Mei Yi Foo has captivated audiences across Europe at venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Verona Filarmonica, Megaron Athens and Finlandia Hall.
She worked alongside conductors such as Matthias [...]
Flemming Aksnes
Posted on | June 15, 2010 | No Comments
Flemming begynte sine studier hos Paul Farr i Stavanger, og etter tre år fortsatte han hos professor Frøydis Ree Wekre ved Norges Musikhøgskole, hvor han avsluttet med en mastergrad i horn og kammermusik.
Siden har Flemming Aksnes supplert sin utdannelse hos blant andre Radovan Vlatkovic, Stefan Dohr og Sahra Willis fra Berliner Philharmonikerne. Han har vært [...]
Anna Carina Sundstedt
Posted on | May 26, 2010 | No Comments
Anna Carina Sundstedt växte upp i ett dansk/svensk hem fullt av musik. Hennes pappa som var konsertpianist övade ständigt – ibland var det kanske lite för mycket musik för de tre teenagedöttrar (!) Även om Anna Carina själv hade spelat piano sen 6-års-åldern valde hon en helt annan riktning och utbildade sig som korrespondent i [...]
Signe Sannem Lund
Posted on | May 26, 2010 | No Comments
Signe Sannem Lund, operahode.
Signe trives best i varierende omgivelser og dukker stadig opp på store operascener, i gymsaler foran elleville barn, på sykehjem med schlagerfest for demente, i intime recitals eller frekk og flørtende på pub. I år har hun sunget Kikki i I Natt I Natt 2 “en barokk dansbandsopera” på Malmø Opera, og [...]
John Kinell
Posted on | May 21, 2010 | No Comments
John Kinell, lyrisk baryton, etablerade sig tidigt som en lovande
romanssångare med sin varma klang och musikaliska intelligens. Bland annat
gjorde han en sverigeturné i Rikskonserters regi i början av 2006 och han
har framträtt på t.ex. Båstad Kammarmusikfestival och runt om hos Sveriges
kammarmusikarrangörer. Sedan hans examen från Operahögskolan i Stockholm
våren 2009 har han dessutom hunnit framträda på [...]
Hemållt
Posted on | April 22, 2010 | No Comments
I Bohuslän rör sig folkmusiken i ett gränsland mot Norge och de brittiska öarna och influenserna därifrån är starka.
Originalmedlemmarna i Hemållt har spelat tillsammans sedan 1989. Sedan hösten 2009 är Bruno Andersen med i gruppen som slagverkare.
Med humor och spelglädje har de spelat inför en entusiastisk publik både i Skandinavien och på kontinenten som tex. [...]
Weberkvartetten
Posted on | April 22, 2010 | No Comments
The Weber Quartet is one of Sweden’s finest and most industrious string quartets. They frequently perform and record for radio and tv and are touring continuously throughout Sweden and abroad. With individual studies in among other places London, Copenhagen and San Francisco the Weber Quartet was formed in 1997 and has since 2005 been a [...]
Genialteatern
Posted on | August 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Genialteatern consist of the three talented, young Swedish men; Tore Norrby, Harald Nilsson and Christopher Ek. The family shows, in the genre of music theatre are distinquished by the outstanding musical and theatrical quality and imagination. They use several musical instrumets varying from double bass, melodica, guitars, ukulele and carjon (box drum) which they neatly [...]
Where to stay
Posted on | May 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Hotel
Sydkoster Hotell Ekenäs
Flats and Guest houses South – Koster
Pensionat Bergdalen
Kostergården
Stugbyn Ankaret
Solkoster
Krokens gård
Kvadrat Koster AB
Kilesandsgården
Flats and Guest houses North – Koster
Kosterhusen
Waldton
Hildas Hus
Camping and cabins North – Koster
Reservatet
Christian Ihle Hadland
Posted on | May 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Christian Ihle Hadland is widely recognized as one of Norway’s most exciting young piano talents and following his recital debut at the Norwegian Opera in 2008 was hailed in the Norwegian press as an artist who ..’shows himself as a unique musician whose artistry should be heard on the world’s concert stages’
Christian made his Norwegian [...]
Tora Augestad
Posted on | May 8, 2009 | Comments Off
„Tora Augestad is in any case much more than an academically trained singer, she lives and endures her songs with maximum vocal and acting capabilities.” Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
Born in Bergen in 1979, the singer-actor Tora Augestad studied classical music as well as vocal jazz in Oslo and Stockholm, dedicating herself to repertoire of the 20th and [...]
Kinneret Sieradzki
Posted on | May 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Kinneret Sieradzki was born in Tel-Aviv and started her violin studies at the age of 3.5. Her main teachers were Ms. Nava Milo in Israel and Mr. Robert Szreder in Holland, who were her principal coaches in the following years.
As a performing musician, Kinneret gives recitals and chamber music concerts regularly. She was invited in [...]
Shlomy Dobrinsky
Posted on | May 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Shlomy Dobrinsky was born in Moscow in 1981 and started to play the violin at the age of six. A year later he successfully applied to the prestigious Gnesine Special Music School in Moscow for talented young musicians, where he studied with Irina Svetlova. When his family emigrated to Israel, Shlomy continued his musical development [...]
Jörgen Byström – visual artist of 2009
Posted on | May 5, 2009 | No Comments
Article will follow shortly.
Kosterfestivalen through the years
Posted on | January 31, 2009 | Comments Off
Kosterfestivalen, formerly known as Koster Kammarmusikfestival, was first arranged in July 2005 by Martin G. Rasten og Thomas Flodin, thus celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2009.
The festival’s basic philosophy was to merge art and music in the most beautiful natural setting one could think of. North – and South Koster consisting of both a beautiful [...]
“There are no free lunches”
Posted on | November 4, 2008 | No Comments
Koster Chamber Music Festival is back for the fourth year. Again, the heavenly tones float over Koster islands by the beautiful cliffs and meadows. Thomas & Martin, the musicians and many employees are working hard and lovingly so that we can face the music’s magic in a magical landscape.
But love is not enough. Everything costs [...]
