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f The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra conducted by Grant
Llewellyn with the Olympic musicians Ole Edvard Antonsen
and the Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen as soloist.
f The Trondheim Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ole
Kristian Ruud and the soprano Pamela Coburn as soloist.
f The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitri
Kitajenko and the cellist Truls Mørk.
f The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Giuseppe
Sinopoli with Elisabeth Nordberg Schulz as soloist.
f The National Broadcasting Orchestra held an opera gala
with John Nelson conducting, with Håkan Hagegård and
Olympic musician Bodil Arnesen as soloists.
C h a m b e r M u s i c
The Chamber Music programme
was planned and staged in
cooperation with external agencies.
A number of Norway’s leading and
youngest musicians were asked to
choose a musician they would like
to play together with and suggest a
musical programme. This was put
together as a series of chamber
concerts, eight of which were held in Oslo and 17 in the
Olympic Region.
Two premieres were held of works commissioned by LOOC
– one composed by Haflidi Hallgrimsson from Iceland and one
by Randall Meyers from the USA.
The following performers participated in the chamber music
series:
f The Olympic musicians Grieg Trio with viola player Lars
Anders Tomter.
f Lars Anders Tomter with cellist Alexander Rudin and pianist
Håvard Gimse.
f Olympic musicians Bodil
Arnesen accompanied by Roger
Vignoles.
f Olympic musicians Leif Ove
Andsnes with violinist Christian
Tetzlaff and baritone Dimitri
Kharitonov.
f The Norwegian Chamber
Orchestra conducted by Terje
Tønnesen with the soprano
Ragnhild Heiland Sørensen.
f Cellist Truls Mørk accompanied by the pianist Ewa Kupiec.
f CIKADA string quartet with soprano Torgunn Birkeland.
f Soprano Anne Lise Berntsen and Siri Torjusen put together
a performance staged by Kjetil Skøien.
P re - O l y m p i c e v e n t s
Concerts with the World Orchestra and World Youth Choir.
O t h e r
In connection with an installation of ice sculptures at the Olympic
Park (constructed by engineer Jürgen Spelda of the University of
Trondheim), a music composition was commissioned from
composer Tor Halmrast. The work which was called “IC” was an
eight channel “sound installation” for continuous play.
P o p m u s i c
Pop music was presented under the title “Olympic Nights”
and comprised Norwegian and international musicians in the
categories of jazz, pop, rock, roots and entertainment music.
In all, 67 events were held under the topic “Olympic Nights”
with the main arena being the “Tent” at Sportsplassen in
Lillehammer. Other event sites included Hamar, Gjøvik and
Oslo (Rockefeller Music Hall).