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BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2019
Platform GÁTT
​ major new initiative for young
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Nordic artists.
Iceland has the presidency of the Nordic Council
in 2019 and is launching a new multi-year project
for young, Nordic artists.
The Reykjavik Arts Festival is leading the initi-
ative and has invited the Bergen International
Festival and other festivals and institutions from
Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Finland to take
part in the creation of an international meeting
place for young Nordic artists within every arts
discipline.
The initiative is called Platform GÁTT, from the
old Norse name for ‘doorway’. The institutions
select a handful of young artists for the project,
whose contributions also include nominating ad-
ditional participants. The goal is to create a large
network of young artists based in the Nordic re-
gion. Together they will carry out different artis-
tic projects and participate in workshops hosted
by the artistic institutions.
‘The young artists pursue wide-open chains of
thought reaching out in every direction. The
impact from such encounters at an early stage
of your artistic career has a lifelong effect. We
wish to facilitate for young artists to meet a wi-
der range of potential partners across different
disciplines and provide a platform for them on
which to present themselves’, says Festival Dire-
ctor Anders Beyer.
Bergen International Festival is the first to re-
ceive visiting artists from Platform GÁTT. Next
in line is Nuuk on Greenland in October, then
Reykjavik Arts Festival and the Helsinki Festival
in 2020, followed by The Nordic House on the
Faroe Islands in 2021. All artists in the network
are invited to a final gathering in Reykjavik in
spring 2021.
Follow Platform GÁTT at fib.no/gatt.
Platform GÁTT is a collaboration between the
Bergen International Festival, Reykjavik Arts
Festival, Helsinki Festival, Nordic House in the
Faroe Islands and Nordic Institue in Greenland/
Nuuk Nordic.
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Crescendo
– a mentoring programme
for young classical
musicians
Crescendo connects tomorrow’s
young classical musicians with highly
profiled mentors.
The mentoring programme is a joint venture
between Barratt Due Institute of Music, the
Bergen International Festival and the Oslo
Philharmonic Orchestra, aiming to strengthen
the young musicians’ awareness of their own
artistic development and identity.
Crescendo has two programmes: The mentoring
programme for young soloists and chamber
groups and Young Philharmonic Orchestra – a
collaboration with the Oslo Philharmonic.
Through coaching, performances and personal
contact in the mentoring programme, outstanding
young musicians with extraordinary soloist poten-
tial get the chance to prepare for a professional
career with the guidance from top international
musicians. Participation in the mentoring pro-
gramme also helps the Crescendo musicians in
building a solid national and international network.
This year’s festival offers three Crescendo con-
certs: Leif Ove Andsnes & Friends (p. 44), Noah
Bendix-Balgley & Friends (p. 64) and Sonatas
with Crescendo (p. 65).
Read more at crescendo-music.no/en
The project is supported by Trond Mohn,
Bettina Ford Jebsen, Hans Peter Jebsen, The
Savings Bank Foundation DNB, Dextra Musica
and Talent Norway.
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