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Transportation
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Festival Card:
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Supported by
Anders Sveaas'
Charitable
Foundation
BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2016
Ole Bull’s
home
FOU N DAT I ON S
David & Julie
Coucheron
LYS ØEN
D U R AT I ON
1:00
The beautiful villa on Lysøen – the Island of
Light – was built in 1873 as a summer residence
for Ole Bull. It is something of a fairy-tale castle
with its onion domes and intricate ornamentation. For many, the boat journey to the island
culminating in a concert in Ole Bull’s unorthodox
sitting room is a valued tradition.
DAT E/T I ME
Saturday 28 May
at 11:30 & 14:30
The Coucherons come home to Bull.
Did you know that Norway has a concert master
in one of the USA’s foremost orchestras?
David Coucheron started in the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra in 2010 as the younger
concert master in the USA. He is also an experienced soloist and chamber musician.
As children the brother and sister team
charmed audiences in Norway before venturing out. David trained at the Curtis School in
Philadelphia and the Juilliard School in New
York, while Julie was at the Royal Academy of
Music in London. Julie’s international career is
based in London, Atlanta and New York. In Ole
Bull’s fairy tale villa they perform a highly varied
programme with room for virtuoso sibling love.
David Coucheron violin
Julie Coucheron piano
FOU N DAT ION S
B E RG E N IN T E RN AT ION A L
F E ST IVA L 2 01 6
Eivind Holtsmark
Ringstad
with Håvard Gimse
LYSØ E N
DAT E / T IME
DU RAT ION
1:00
Sunday 29 May
at 11:30 & 14:30
A romantic sojourn in Bull’s fairy
tale castle.
‘Ole Bull’s music is incredibly captivating and
not least beautiful. To be able to play it in his
own home is fabulous,’ says Eivind Holtsmark
Ringstad, one of Norway’s most impressive
young talented musicians.
The young viola player has arranged works
by Brahms, Elgar and other composers for his
instrument, and in this concert he plays favourites by Franz Schubert, Ole Bull and Edvard
Grieg. He has also chosen to play excerpts
from the film music suite Gadfly, in which we
see Shostakovich from his entertaining side.
Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (1994–) took first
prize in the 2012 Eurovision Young Musician
Competition – the first Norwegian to do so. He
is a student at the Barratt Due Music Institute,
and is one of three virtuoso performers in
the Crescendo program at the 2016 Bergen
International Festival.
Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola
Håvard Gimse piano
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Charlie Siem
with Sveinung Bjelland
LYSØ E N
DAT E / T IME
DU RAT ION
1:00
Saturday 04 & Sunday 05 June
at 11:30 & 14:30
Passion and worldly-wise westerly wind.
British-Norwegian Charlie Siem is today one of the
most highly profiled young classical musicians in
Britain, well established as an international soloist.
In 2014 he released his fourth solo album to date,
Under the Stars. At Lysøen he will perform favourites by Beethoven, Grieg and Bull, accompanied by
the distinguished pianist Sveinung Bjelland.
Beethoven’s work, dedicated to the violinist
Radolphe Kreutzer, later gave name to Tolstoy’s
famous novella, which describes how the prurience of the Kreutzer Sonata results in a crime of
passion. A possessive husband hears his wife and
her violinist lover playing together, and becomes
obsessed with the thought of their concealing their
lovemaking from him.
‘The Kreutzer Sonata is iconic. It makes special
demands both on the pianist and on me, and I wanted
to combine it with music by the great sons of the west
coast, Grieg and Bull. We chose to play Grieg’s late
romantic sonata, which reflects both the German style
and the Norwegian spirit, and to play Bull’s Paganiniinspired Cantabile doloroso e Rondo giocoso. I am a
huge Bull fan – both of his personality and his violin
playing,’ says Siem, who has a family connection with
the charismatic virtuoso.
Charlie Siem violin
Sveinung Bjelland piano
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