Bergen International Festival (Norwegian: Festspillene i Bergen) is an annual international music and cultural festival in Bergen, Norway.
In Spring 2022, Lars Petter Hagen took over as festival director.
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Bergen International Festival (Norwegian: Festspillene i Bergen) is an annual international music and cultural festival in Bergen, Norway.
01 · What it is
Music
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02 · Where & name
Norway
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03 · How it is doing
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04 · Proof & reuse
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BiographyThe Bergen International festival is the largest festival in the Nordic countries in its genre and has a large number of activities in music, dance, literature, visual arts, folklore, etc.
Grieg’s concerto in A minorEdvard Grieg’s piano concerto in A minor is often called the signature work of the Festival, and has been performed at almost every Festival since 1953.
Musician in residence1997: Leif Ove Andsnes 1998: Randi Stene 1999: Christian Eggen 2001: Det Norske Kammerorkester 2003: Anne Sofie von Otter 2004: Henning Kraggerud 2005: Martin Fröst 2006: Per Arne Glorvigen 2007: Trio Mediæval 2008:…
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Bergen International Festival (Norwegian: Festspillene i Bergen) is an annual international music and cultural festival in Bergen, Norway.
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Bergen International Festival (Norwegian: Festspillene i Bergen) is an annual international music and cultural festival in Bergen, Norway.
In Spring 2022, Lars Petter Hagen took over as festival director. 1
Biography
The Bergen International festival is the largest festival in the Nordic countries in its genre and has a large number of activities in music, dance, literature, visual arts, folklore, etc. The festival is held over fourteen days from the end of May to the start of June and is located in numerous places like the Grieg Hall, Haakon's Hall, Troldhaugen, Lysøen, Siljustøl as well as streets and town squares of Bergen. In the same time span the International Jazz Festival, Nattjazz, takes place in Bergen.
The first festival that started on 1 June 1953, exactly 55 years after its predecessor and source of inspiration, the first music festival in Norway Edvard Grieg's Bergen Music Festival starting on the 26 June 1898. The model was the Salzburg Festival, and the initiative came partly from opera singer Fanny Elstad. The original festival director was Frank Meidell Falch from 1951 to 1957. Christen Gran Bøgh, who died in 1955, also played a major role in the festival's first edition. 1
Grieg’s concerto in A minor
Edvard Grieg’s piano concerto in A minor is often called the signature work of the Festival, and has been performed at almost every Festival since 1953. Here are all the soloists: 1
Musician in residence
1997: Leif Ove Andsnes
1998: Randi Stene
1999: Christian Eggen
2001: Det Norske Kammerorkester
2003: Anne Sofie von Otter
2004: Henning Kraggerud
2005: Martin Fröst
2006: Per Arne Glorvigen
2007: Trio Mediæval
2008: Bjarte Eike 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bergen International Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Bergen International Festival is festival in Bergen, Norway, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 16 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. 2