— When time stands still.
This season opens with some of the most timeless music there is. Bach's Cello Suite in G major, perhaps the most famous one, sets the tone for the theme Time, with cellist Clara Friedensburg on stage — one of the rising stars recently selected for Talent Norway's new, international PODIUM initiative.
The concert also features award-winning Opus13, who won one of the world's most prestigious quartet competitions at London's Wigmore Hall last year. They give us Pulitzer Prize-winning Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte, before joining forces with violist Henninge Landaas and Friedensburg in Brahms's String Sextet in Bb major. The programme is interspersed with texts about time, read by actress Juni Dahr. You can read more about the performers and the program further down this page.
Let yourself be embraced by the warmth of chamber music in January. Welcome to the season opening!
Sonoko Miriam Welde violin
Edvard Erdal violin
Albin Uusijärvi viola
Henninge Landaa's viola
Daniel Thorell cello
Clara Yuna Friedensburg cello
June Dahr actress
Duration approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes including interval.
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685—1750)
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)
Entr'acte (2011)Johannes Brahms (1833—1897)
String sextet in Bb major, op. 18 -
Opus13 has in recent years established itself at the top of the world's young string quartets. The ensemble was established in 2014 and is named after the very first work they played together — Mendelssohn's String Quartet Op. 13. The quartet won both the Bordeaux and Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competitions last year. The quartet is based in Oslo and consists of violinists Sonoko Miriam Welde and Edvard Erdal , violist Albin Uusijärvi and cellist Daniel Thorell .
Clara Yuna Friedensburg, winner of the Polstjärne Prize and recipient of the Prix Young Artist, grew up in a musical family and began playing the cello at the age of seven. She made her debut at the age of eleven with the Barratt Due Youth Orchestra and has since performed with renowned orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Gidon Kremer's Kremerata Baltica, the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Her highlights include appearances at the Verbier Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Kronberg Festival, the Bachwoche Ansbach, the Sion Festival, the Copenhagen Summer Festival and the Festival der Nationen in Bad Wörishofen. A former Barratt Due student with teachers Ole Eirik Ree, Louisa Tuck, Ernst Simon Glaser and Tove Sinding-Larsen, Clara is now continuing her education at the prestigious Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson.
Clara plays a Francesco Ruggieri cello (Cremona 1688), generously placed at the disposal of Anders Sveaas' Almennyttige Fond (ASAF). As winner of the 31st competition of the German musical instrument foundation Stiftung Musikleben, she also plays a cello made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris, c. 1845). Her studies are financed through the Strauss patronage, ASAF, Tom Wilhelmsens Stiftelse and the Hans and Stefan Bernbeck scholarship.
Henninge Landaas has been alternating solo violist in the Oslo Philharmonic for 18 years, and has previously also been part of the internationally renowned Vertavo Quartet for a number of years, touring concert halls all over the world. Critically acclaimed CD recordings include works by, among others, Nielsen, Brahms, Bartok, Grieg and Debussy. With the Vertavo Quartet, Landaas received the Critics' Award, the Spellemann Prize and the highly regarded Diapason d`Or in France.
Landaas is one of the founders of the SSens Trio. With them she now tours regularly and makes CD recordings for LAWO Classics. The recordings have received very good reviews in, among others, Classica (France), Fanfare Magazine and Pizzicato Magazine. In 2020, they were nominated for the prestigious Opus Klassik Award in Germany. She has also released a number of CDs on LAWO Classics with solo and duo repertoire, including Brahms' viola sonatas with Tim Horton, Mozart/Brustad/Passacaglia with Elise Båtnes, and The Golden Hindemith with, among others, Bjørg Lewis and Vegard Landaas.
Landaas plays a viola made by JB Guadagnini, on loan from Dextra Musica.
Juni Dahr received her education at the Norwegian State Theatre School, as well as studies with Grotowski in Poland and the Actors Studio in New York. She was employed by Nationale Scene in Bergen for 12 years, but left Norwegian institutional theatre in 1988 to go to New York to create Joan of Arc: Vision Through Fire and establish herself as a freelance performing artist. Since then, she has toured and visited large parts of the world with her work.
Dahr is characterized by a continuous search for a close and direct style of performance. The venues are often non-traditional arenas. She is known for, among other things, Jeanne d`Arc, Ibsen's Women, Kristin Lavransdatter, Kassandra, Nora, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler and Markens Grøde as well as roles in film and TV. She is artistic director and runs Visjoner Teater.
Dahr has received, among other things, the Fulbright Scholarship, the Critics Award in Los Angeles, the Monocle Prize in St. Petersburg, the Telenor Cultural Prize, the Eckboe Cultural Prize, the Oslo City Artist Prize, the Ibsen Prize in Skien and the Norwegian State Artist Scholarship over several years, to name a few.
We wish you an enjoyable, unique concert experience with us. Welcome!
Photo: Nikolaj Lund (Friedensburg) / Janne Møller Hansen (Dahr) / Elvira Glänte (Opus13) / Bård Gundersen (Landaas)