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CONCERTS / BOOKING
July 2011: KB completes Soloppgang
(Sunrise), a cantata written on the texts by Edvard Munch for
Nordstrand Musikkselskaps Kor, conducted by Egil Fossum. The
cantata will be performed at Universitetets Aula, Oslo, Saturday
12 November 2011, with Kari Bremnes (vocal), Aage Kvalbein
(cello), Matias Bjørnstad (sax) and Bjørn Kjellemyr (double
bass).
May 2011: KBs three solo recitals at the
Spoleto Festival in U.S. is a huge success.
In Charleston City Newspaper T.
Ballard Lesemann writes that KB gives the piano ”a special sonic
treatment”, also writing that his technique was terrific, and
“at times, it sounded like three pianists playing
simultaneously”. The critic also praised the “gorgeous, refined
moments of tenderness”. In The Post And Courier, Jack
McCray writes that KB kept the “growing tradition” after Dave
Brubeck and Horace Silver, a.o., intact: “His execution was
flawless. He created moods that were at once delightful and
profound.” He compared KB with Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and
Charles Lloyd, “bringing fresh treatments to classic
structures”.
Spring/Summer
2011: KB on tour: Engø Gård 8 April (solo piano), Lyngør Fyr 7
May (solo piano), Mai-Jazz Stavanger 13 May (with Tore Brunborg
& Jon Christensen), Spoleto Festival, Charleston, USA 29-31 May
(solo piano), Lørenskog kulturhus 3 June & Junikveld
Børli/Eidskog 5 June (both with Lill Lindfors), Sunndal 21 June
(with Terje Rypdal & Ole Paus), Elba, Italy 7 July (with Svante
Henryson), Skåtøy 14 July & Engø 17 July (both with Kari
Bremnes), The Barony Rosendal 29 July (with Ole Paus).
May 2011: KB
gives 3 solo-concerts at the American Spoleto Festival in
Charleston, South Carolina, 29-30 May. (Cathedral church of St.
Luke and St. Paul.)
Winter/Spring
2011: KB on tour: Kalkmølla, Bærum 10 February (with Jon
Christensen and Tore Brunborg), Haugesund 11 February (with Kari
Bremnes), Kolbotn (Kolben) 29 March and Hov i Land 30 March (both
with Kari Bremnes).
January 2011:
KB visits the Hay Cartagena Festival in Colombia Saturday 29
January (solo piano and author-interview).
November/December 2010: KB on tour: Berlin 3 November (Lesung).
Oberursel 4 November (Lesung with Moritz Stoepel). Fürth 6
November (Lesung). Nittedal 21 November (solo piano), Hamar 2
December (solo piano). Vilnius 14 December (solo piano).
Autumn 2010: KB on tour: Berlin 6 September
(presenting the German version of Damen i Dalen – Die Frau im
Tal). Nordhausen 7 September (Lesung), Köln 8 September
(solo piano. St. Mauritius Kirche). Sortland 15, Lørenskog 16,
Ørsta 17 Stryn 18 and Sandvika 25 September (all with Lill
Lindfors.) Tønsberg 25 September (Lecture about Oda Krohg).
Madrid 27 September (presenting the Spanish version of To
Music). Kvinesdal 29 September (solo piano). Frankfurt
Book-Fair, 6-8 October (presenting Die Frau im Tal).
Eidsvoll 16. October (solo piano). Moster 24 October (solo
piano). Notodden 26 October (solo piano). Neuwied 29 October
(solo Piano).
July 2010: KB and his powerful ensemble (Shepard,
Lechner, Mazur, Aarset, Andersen) got standing ovations after
their performance of The Antonioni Project at Molde Int.
Jazzfestival. The reviews gave unison praise to the musicians,
and in a huge and detailed review in All About Jazz,
John Kelman wrote about “the feeling of having been there
... in this very specific place, at this very particular point
in time.” The concert was recorded for ECM, and Kelman wrote
that the recording “will, no doubt, be a terrific one – perhaps,
even, the best recording of Bjørnstad’s career.”
July 2010: John Kelman from All About Jazz
visits Norway’s most famous jazz-festivals, and after KB and
Svante Henryson’s concert at Kongsberg Jazzfestival, where the
duo for the first time presented music from their upcoming
Night Song-album (ECM, January 2011), he wrote that it was
“a show that was largely gentle, occationally majestic and
always elegant ... Nearing 60, Bjørnstad continues at a pace
that would put many younger musicians to shame ... Henryson’s
understated passion created a dramatic undercurrent to Bjørnstad
that made their performance a trancendent experience.”
Summer 2010: KB gives several
concerts. Lillehammer Litteraturfestival 27 May (with Kari
Bremnes), Hay Festival, Wales, 29 May (solo piano), Bergen
Nattjazz 2 June (with Kari Bremnes), Reine Festival, Lofoten, 4
June (solo piano), Vestfold Festspillene, Åsgårdstrand, 6 June
(solo piano) and the day after (with Kari Bremnes). Rosendal
Barony 19 June (with Lill Lindfors), Tjuvholmen, Oslo, 20 June (with
Lill Lindfors), Sunndal 22 June (with Lill Lindfors),
Hochneunkirchen, Austria, 25 June (solo piano), Kongsberg Int.
Jazzfestival 8 July (with cellist Svante Henryson), Dovre 12
July (solo piano), Molde Int. Jazzfestival 21 July (Commisioned
work, The Antonioni-project). Augsburg 4 August (with Tore
Brunborg and Jon Christensen). Hamsun-dagene, Hamarøy, 6 August
(solo piano) and Oslo Jazzfestival, 21 August (night-concert
with Tore Brunborg and Jon Christensen in Oslo Domkirke).
Spring 2010: KB will give a few concerts in Norway, Germany,
England, France and Korea. He also writes on a new novel.
4 December 2009: KB performs Grace with Anneli Drecker in
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. He also performs at The
Norwegian Seamen’s Church the day after. 17 December he performs
with the Norwegian poet Ove Røsbak in Lillehammer.
Autumn 2009: KB visits Germany 16 (Langenau), 17 (Ecquinox Music
Festival, Köln) and 18 September (Münster), playing both solo
piano and with Arild Andersen and Alex Riel (Köln). He will
perform in Sarpsborg with Ole Paus 24 September. 14 and 15
October KB will visit “Lettres du Monde” in Bordeaux, France,
and 17 October he gives a concert with Terje Rypdal at the
Istanbul Jazz-festival, Turkey. He gives two concerts in
Haugesund, Norway 23/24 October, one solo-recital in Purcell
Room, London, 27 October, Sandefjord 29 October, Larvik (With
Ole Paus) 3th November, Koblenz, Neuwied and Fürth (Germany)
5th, 6th and 7th November. Asker (Norway) with Randi Stene and
Lars Anders Tomter 11 November. Solo-piano in Hamm (Germany) 19
November. Moster, Horten, Asker and Lillestrøm with Lill
Lindfors, November/December 2009.
Friday 13 March 2009 KB will attend the
Leipzig Bookfair, in Blüthner Klavierschule. He will read from
the novel Der Fluss and also play solo piano. The day
before, he gives a solo-concert at Schloss Landestrost outside
Hannover. He is also performing with Anneli Drecker
and Lill Lindfors on different concerts in
Norway this spring. He will visit
Germany
and Austria
in April (Frankfurt 22, Oberursel 23,
together with Moritz Stoepel, and Innsbruck
25), playing solo-piano.
6 March 2009 the third novel about Aksel
Vinding, Damen I Dalen is published in
Norway
by Aschehoug. The publishing house also invites to a release
concert in Store Studio, NRK, with KORK (The Norwegian Radio
Orchestra) Friday 20 March, presenting music from the trilogy.
Jie Zhang will play Chopin and Ravel, Gunilla Süssmann will play
Debussy, Beethoven and Rachmaninov. Christian Eggen is the
conductor. He will also play Mozart. KB will read and tell from
the books. Both radio and television will record the concert.
Sunday 28 June 2009
KB has been asked to compose the commissioned work for the
Vestfold Festspillene 2009.
The oratorium “Hvalenes Sang” (“Song of the Whales) will be
performed at Oseberg Kulturhus, Tønsberg with Anneli Drecker,
Svante Henryson, Bjørn Kjellemyr, Rune Arnesen, Bjørn Meyer
Charles, Sven Persson and Sjøbodkoret with Arne Næss, together
with the composer and two actors from Teater Ibsen.
17 November 2008
Ketil Bjørnstad presents a reading from his forthcoming novel
"To Music" (Maia Press 2009) and a solo piano performance at
Kings Place, during London Jazz Festival.
17 November 2008
Ketil Bjørnstad presents a reading from his forthcoming novel
"To Music" (Maia Press 2009) and a solo piano performance at
Kings Place, during London Jazz Festival.
Autumn
2008
KB is touring all over Norway (mostly solo piano). He will also
visit several German cities (Köln, Frankfurt, Ludwigshafen and
Oldenburg a. o.). He will play with Terje Rypdal in Porto,
Portugal, 26 October 2008. During the London International Jazz
festival, 17 November 2008, he presents a reading from his
forthcoming novel “To Music” (“Til Musikken”) and solo piano
performance at Kings Place, the iconic new creative centre in
Kings Cross.
25 May – 6 July 2008
KB will perform his suite "The Light - Songs of Love and Fear"
with Randi Stene and Lars Anders Tomter at the "Les signes parmi
nous - Musik von ECM"-festival at Schloss Elmau, Sunday 25 May
2008.
The trio also gave a cd-release concert at Logen, during the
Bergen International Festival on Wednesday 21 May 2008 and
performed the suite at Randi Stenes own festival "Sommersang",
at Ringve Museum, Trondheim, Friday 13 June, at the Barony in
Rosendal 4 July, and at Verdens Ende outside Tønsberg (early
morning open air concert) Sunday 6 July 2008.
April 2008
KB was touring solo-piano and also visited Germany for a "Lesung"-tour
in.
Autumn 2007
KB gave numerous solo piano-concerts in Norway
30 November 2007,
Ketil Bjørnstad played with Arild Andersen and Alex Riel in
Baden-Baden.
16 November 2007
KB and Wolfgang Puschnig played in London at the London
International Jazz Festival.
24 July 2007
Canal Street Jazz & Blues-festival in Arendal, asked Ketil
Bjørnstad to write a new piece for the 2007-festival.
"Coastlines" is performed with KB on piano and Lill Lindfors
(vocal), Nora Taksdal (viola), Svein Dag Hauge (guitars), Arild
Andersen (double bass) & Alex Riel (drums).
The
day after KB gave an open- air concert with Terje Rypdal
(guitar) and Paolo Vinaccia (drums).
July 2007
KB was given the honour of opening the Molde International Jazz
Festival with a specially written prologue, reflecting on the
power of improvised music and the energy of the city during the
festival days.
21 July 2007
Together with Terje Rypdal, Ketil Bjørnstad played the last
concert at the Molde International Jazz Festival. Rypdal is
Artist of Residence and they gave a duo-concert at the Molde
Cathedral,.
March 2007
Ketil Bjørnstad toured in Norway with Terje Rypdal, visiting the
following places: Modum Bad (7), Kolben Kulturhus, Kolbotn (8),
Huset Brandbu (9), Ullensaker Jessheim (10), Oseberg Kulturhus,
Tønsberg (13), Grong Kulturhus (14), Mo i Rana (15), Tysværtunet
(18).
14 February 2007.
Ketil Bjørnstad gave a concert with his trio (Arild Andersen,
bass. Alex Riel, drums) in Nürnberg
18 December 2006
With guitarist Terje Rypdal, Ketil Bjørnstad toured Shetland,
Gütersloh, Krefeld, Innsbruck, Vienna and Schwäbish-Gmünd before
Christmas. Ketil Bjørnstad also gave solo piano-concerts at the
Schwäbish Hall, Mandal, Berlin (silent movie Terje Vigen)
and Arendal, and performed Grace with Anneli Drecker in
Istanbul in the same period. He also gave a gala-concert with
the Swedish singer Lill Lindfors in Stockholm.
November and December 2006
Ketil Bjørnstad toured with Terje Rypdal in Europe
Summer 2006
KB gave solo-piano concerts in Åsgårdstrand and at the Barony in
Rosendal in June. He also performed Grace with Anneli
Drecker at the Fjellfestivalen in Åndalsnes and at the Canal
Street-festival in Arendal in July. He gave a trio-concert in
Bodø during the Nordland Musikkfestuke in August. The same month
he also performed Kildens Bredd together with Ole Paus in
Fredrikstad.
22 March 2006
After Ketil Bjørnstad’s concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in
London, John Fordham, The Guardian called the music "exquisite"
and wrote that "Seafarer's Song" had "a gripping eloquence". And
after the concert in Edinburgh the day before, Rob Adams from
The Herald wrote that it was "a work of major ambition carried
off with considerable skill”. BBC broadcasted the concert from
Southampton.
18 and 19 May 2006
Ketil Bjørnstad was invited to "Europa der Mutterspracen" in
Salzburg, both as an author and with his trio (Arild Andersen,
Alex Riel)
30 April 2006
Ketil Bjørnstad was participating together with Randi Stene
(mezzosoprano) in a performance of his "Messe For En Såret Jord"
(KKV) in Sandefjord.
20 to 26 April 2006
Ketil Bjørnstad toured Austria and Germany, in connection with
Suhrkamp/Insel Verlag's release of his latest novel "Vindings
Spiel" ("Til Musikken"). He visited Wien, Berlin, Leipzig,
Rostock, Kiel, Frankfurt and Stuttgart.
19 to 25 March 2006
Ketil Bjørnstad toured with CMN (contemporary Music Network)
visiting Gateshead (Sage), Manchester (Royal Northern College
of Music), Edinburgh (Queens Hall), London (Queen Elisabeth
Hall), Bristol (St. Georges), Birmingham (CBSO Centre) and
Southampton (Turner Sims Concert Hall). He presented music from
his albums "Before the light", "Floating" and "Seafarer's Song"
together with Kristin Asbjørnsen (vocal), Eivind Aarset
(guitar), Arild Andersen (double-bass), Svante Henryson (cello)
and Alex Riel (drums). Andy Sheppard (saxophone) is "Special
Guest Star".
11 March 2006
Ketil Bjørnstad gave a duo-concert with the Swedish singer Lill
Lindfors in Ålesund
12 to 17 February 2006
Ketil Bjørnstad toured with Palle Danielson & Alex Riel in
Germany visiting Regensburg, Neunkirchen, Heidelberg, Darmstadt,
Frankfurt & München.
9 February 2006
Ketil Bjørnstad gave a solo piano recital in the new Culture
House in Arendal.
October 2005
KETIL BJØRNSTAD is collaborating both with Kjell Kalleklev
Management and Bremme-Hohensee in Germany about touring in other
countries. A.O. Innsbruck and Marburg.
29 October 2005
KETIL BJØRNSTAD played with Terje Rypdal in Cork, Ireland,.
29 September 2005
KETIL BJØRNSTAD played in Nürnberg with the Norwegian
singer Kari Bremnes and had a reading in Nürnberg Litteraturhaus
the day before.
June 2005
KETIL BJØRNSTAD gave a duo-concert with the Swedish cellist
Svante Henryson at the Bath Festival.
July 2005
KETIL BJØRNSTAD played with Terje Rypdal in Warsaw.
March 2006
KETIL BJØRNSTAD was The Arts Council’s "Contemporary Music
Network-artist" in England.
May 2005
KETIL BJØRNSTAD used the same studio and instrument for his
trio-recording for Emarcy/Universal. The album was released in
the autumn 2005.
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January 2005
KETIL BJØRNSTAD gave a concert with Anneli Drecker (Grace) on
Svalbard/Spitsbergen.
20
to 22 January 2005
KETIL BJØRNSTAD played and read from his latest novel in
Germany, "Villa Europa" (Insel/Suhrkamp) in Rostock, Frankfurt
and Langenau.
November 2004
KETIL BJØRNSTAD was in Hamburg choosing a new Steinway Grand
(model D) for the new Rainbow Studio in Oslo, together with
sound-engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug.
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