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BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2015

FR I CT I ON

L’Homme
Armée
with the Norwegian
Navy Band Bergen

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B E RG E N KJ ØT T

Norwegian Navy Band Bergen
Ingar Bergby conductor
Geir Johnson host

BERGEN
D O M KI RKE
DAT E/ T I M E

Friday 05 June
at 19:30
D U RAT IO N

Bygdin

Military music for a new age.

KETIL HVOSLEF (1939–)

L’Homme Armée

The Norwegian Navy Band Bergen is a highly
versatile ensemble consisting of 28 musicians
with a broad range of experience. The band
has made its mark in contemporary music, with
numerous world premieres, festival performances and recordings to its name.

DAT E / T IME

Tuesday 09 June
at 19:30

REBECKA AHVENNIEMI (1982–)

Muse’s Puzzle
KNUT VAAGE (1961–)

Breaking Another Wall

B E RG E N IN T E RN AT ION A L
F E ST IVA L 2 01 5

Oslo
Sinfonietta

T IC K E T *

Full price: 290
Under 30: 150
*Festival card:
40 %–30 % discount

with Helmut Lachenmann
‘Composing means building a
new instrument,’ according to
Lachenmann. Meet the composer in
his own anniversary concert at the
Bergen International Festival.

T IC KET *

Full price: 190
Under 30: 150

At this concert they perform a handful of the
works commissioned for the band in recent years.
The programme spans a wide variety of music
by several generations of Norwegian composers.

The German Helmut Lachenmann (born 1935)
is one of the greatest composers of our time.
In 2015 his 80th birthday is being celebrated
worldwide. When Oslo Sinfonietta paints his
musical portrait at the Bergen International
Festival, he will be on the stage himself.

The Nordic
Council
Music Prize

1:10

Using scraping sounds and mechanical noise
emitting from the instruments alongside velvety
tones from Romantic composers, Lachenmann
creates a sound universe of unfamiliar beauty
and tender sensuality. The composer is known
for a wealth of detail and experimentation with
new tone qualities in his music. As such he has
become a father figure for several generations
of composers in the wake of central European
mode