Valfjäll
Posted on | November 3, 2008 | No Comments
Valfjäll is South Kosters’ highest point, and offers an unbeatable view over Kosters’ archipelago, Hvaler islands and the northern Bohus coast. You will find the stairs up to the concert site opposite Kosters’ church.
This is where the sunset concerts take place every night during the festival, if the weather permits.
Richard Russell
Posted on | November 3, 2008 | No Comments
Richard is from Linlithgow, Scotland. After graduating with first class honours and the prestigious PPRNCM recital diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music he won a scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, supported by awards from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship. After [...]
Karina Vermes
Posted on | November 2, 2008 | No Comments
Karina is a handy woman. Karinas’ tasks in previous years have included making banners, cooking, building stages, playing the flute, promotion, selling tickets among a lot of other things.
Bio coming soon…
Heidi B. Martinsen
Posted on | November 2, 2008 | No Comments
Heidi is usually involved with stage building, ticket sales, playing the horn, fixing musicians, among other things. She therefore qualifies as a handy woman along with Karina. Heidi is responsible for this website.
Heidi B. Martinsen was born in Oslo in 1978. She is a trained horn player and has been awarded a Bachelor of Music (Honours) [...]
Martin G. Rasten
Posted on | November 2, 2008 | Comments Off
The cellist Martin is the festival’s Artistic Leader. He fixes musicians, decides the program, he is in contact with sponsors, arranges music among a lot of other things. In addition Martin is incredibly handy, as he knows exactly how to build concert stages out of wood, sail and a few pieces of string. Martin is, [...]
Thomas Flodin
Posted on | November 2, 2008 | No Comments
Thomas is the festivals’ Manager. Thomas is heavily involved with promotion, media contact, sponsorship contact, finance, housing of musicians as well as singing, among other things. Thomas is, along with Martin the founder and driving force behind Koster Chamber Music Festival.
Bio coming soon.
Transport
Posted on | November 2, 2008 | Comments Off
To and from Koster
Boats operate in dense traffic between Strömstads’ northern port and Koster Islands. The last two departures from Longagärde to Strömstad daily are at 9.15pm and 11pm on Friday. For more information visit www.vasttrafik.se or +46 (0) 771-414300.
Where to get off the ferry
For concerts at South Koster, get off at Longagärde.
For performances at [...]
Tickets
Posted on | November 2, 2008 | Comments Off
Tickets can be purchased at the respective stage entrances. You will meet our friendly sales personnel in good time before the concerts start. We only accept cash, but we do accept both Swedish and Norwegian currency.
Prices 2010
Evening concert @ 18.00: 200 SEK / NOK
Children up to 16 yrs: FREE
Summernight concert @ 22.30: 150 SEK / [...]
Islands in the Skagerrak
Posted on | November 2, 2008 | Comments Off
To the west of Strömstad lie the Koster Islands, noted for the beauty of its scenery. These are Sweden´s most westerly populated islands. The islands consist of North and South Koster. Around them lie the Koster archipelago with a large number of skerries and rocky isles.
North Koster is a mere 4km2 consisting of both a [...]
Ulrik Gaston Larsen
Posted on | October 14, 2008 | No Comments
Ulrik Gaston Larsen has studied historical guitar and lute instruments at the Norwegian state Academy of Music, and is currently a lute student of Professor Rolf Lislevand at the Academy of Music in Trossingen, Germany. He specializes in French and Italian early baroque and tours extensively with various ensembles throughout Europe. He can, among other [...]
Koster Chamber Music Festival 2008
Posted on | October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments
The program for this year’s festival was chosen in view of the festival’s new brainchild: A chamber orchestra! A completely new orchestra with symphonic instrumental composition in a limited format. This allows for a wealth of new opportunities and challenges. We have chosen to dive into this challenge with the highest ambitions and with a [...]
Mikael Holmlund
Posted on | October 13, 2008 | No Comments
Mikael Holmlund was born in 1978 in Umeå. He started playing the piano around seven years old. 1996, he entered the piano class at the Norwegian State Academy of Music. After four years of studies for Jens Harald Bratlie, and Einar Steen-Nøkleberg he was awarded a bachelor’s degree with honors, with distinction. Then followed two [...]
Symphony is best with food and drink
Posted on | October 11, 2008 | No Comments
Kosters Trädgårdar (Kosters’ Gardens) holds this year no less than five evening concerts, and it offers in addition to a lush scenery all the conditions for a festival visitor to feel good, thanks to the Gardens’ eminent kitchen. All evenings with performances are an opportunity to buy a special concert ticket menu that provides access [...]
Aprill Spendrup – visual artist of 2008
Posted on | October 9, 2008 | Comments Off
I’m trying to create an internal light and a musical soul in my painting. A body that gives form and meaning, light, atmosphere, place, volume, sound, rhythm and temperature. All these things fit together in painting and music, and in the wild. No other place in the world gives more expression of this than Koster [...]
Generous gift to the festival
Posted on | October 9, 2008 | No Comments
Koster Chamber Music Festival’s first concert of the year was actually already on May 23. The concert grand piano recently donated to the festival was then introduced, first at a ceremony in Strömstad’s northern port and later at Longagärde, south Koster.
Pianist Mikael Holmlund played with the lid open on the quayside, with the port basin [...]
Kosters Trädgårdar, South Koster
Posted on | October 6, 2008 | Comments Off
Food, music and everything one can ask of color splendor. Kosters Gardens, the festivals’ main stage, is a fireworks display of flowers, trees and herbs in combination with the best organic food. Here you can eat what is grown, take a stroll in the garden, pet rabbits or sit with down a cup of coffee [...]
Koster Chamber Music Festival goes symphonic!
Posted on | October 5, 2008 | No Comments
In 2008 Koster Chamber Music Festival proudly presented a brand new symphony orchestra. The orchestra consisted of musicians from several European countries and was conducted by Koster Chamber Music Festival’s artistic leader Martin Rasten. As far as we know this was the first time a symphony orchestra held concerts at the islands of Koster.
The orchestra [...]
