Performances
LYDLAG 2024
Kammersalen, Horten kulturskole 07.03.2024
”Venskaben” i Asker 08.03.2024
In LYDLAG, the new music is framed by the 4 movements of Bach's Sonata for violin and piano. We get a layering between new and old, and a mirroring of today's expressions against Bach's eternal tonal language. The idea is that this collection can give a new and listening ear both to the completely fresh and to the established music.
Porphyry imitations are inspired by the pattern of the rock porphyry. It is rare on a global scale, but can be found in the composer's immediate area in Asker.
The membranous labyrinth. The title is originally the name of the cavities and canals in our inner ear, where the receptors for hearing are located.
Composer Portrait
Two World Premieres
Galleri Athene, Drammen 13.05. 2023
Chiaroscuro for violin, horn and piano (WP): Hilde Chapman,
Marianne Finseth, Monica Tomescu-Rohde
Drøs for piano four hand (WP): Anne Jenstad, Kari Beate Tandberg
Displacementsfor piano solo: Monica Tomescu-Rohde
Brikkerfor 6 piano players: Pupils from Drammen kulturskole
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Chiaroscuro is a commission from Trio ArCOrno, consisting of Hilde Chapman; violin, Marianne Finseth; french horn and Monica Tomescu-Rohde; piano.
The title of the piece is known as the term for a painting technique, emphasizing the contrast between light and dark. The music also reflects tonal and dynamic differences between the instruments and searches for possible sonic similarities and fusions.
The norwegian title Drøs, originates from old norwegian meaning conversation or dialogue. The piece will be performed by Anne Jenstad and the composer Kari Beate Tandberg.
When two layers in the earth's surface have changed position in relation to each other, this phenomenon is described as displacements. The general idea and inspiration behind this piece starts here. Otherwise, the music consists of several clearly contrasting parts, where bits of what is presented return again. Displacements is present at the CD album Modes and moves.
Brikker was originally commissioned by Narvik kulturskole back in 1998 and premiered at The Illios festival in Harstad.
The entire grand piano is in use: Keys, strings and instrument body. The performers on this concert are pupils from Drammen kulturskole.
Variabiliteter narrator and choir (SATB), Kammerkoret NOVA conducted by Julia S. Blank, Asker 27.05, Oslo 31.05.2026
Metis for euphonium and brass-kvintett Harriet H. Kjærnsrød and
Fem Messing. Sarpsborg 28.02, Høvik 01.03, Askim 07.04.2026
Delta ∆ flute, alto saxophone, violin, cello. Lars Asbjørnsen, Lars Lien, Miriam helms Ålien, Audun Sandvik, Tromsø 16.09.26
The White Heron and The Passing World (WP) Shakuhashi, flute, koto and guitar
Korday Iwasaki, Marianne Aarum, Chieko Iwasaki, Gjermund Titlestad
Japan 25.-25.03.25
Polynya bassoon and piano. Leann Currie/Joachim Kwetzinsky
Asker 27.10, Drammen 09.11.2024, Østfold 2025
Modes and Moves Sjøforsvarets musikkorps Borealis, Bergen 13.03.25
Fløy flute-quintet. Fem på Tvers. Glemmen church, Fredrikstad and Sande church 09.03.24 Adams Flute-festival, Ittevoort Nederland 19-21.04.24. Asker Kulturhus 08.03.25, Vestfossen kunstlaboratorium 14.06.26
Dét version for Double bass and sinfonietta (orig. orch.)
Marius Flatby and Ensemble Ernst. Ridehuset, Oslo 26.05 2024
Anmeldelse: Ballade.no
Blooming
for piano soloist, narrator and sinfonietta
World premiere
Kapittel, Stavanger InternationalFestival
of Literature and Freedom of speech
Tou Scene—23.09.2023
Around 1 million Soviet women enlisted in the Red Army to fight for their country during World War II. In her book "The unwomanly face of war"(The 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature), the Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to a number of these women returning from the battlefield. Unfortunately, the war topic is more relevant than ever.
Inspired by Alexievich writing, I composed Blooming for piano soloist, narrator and sinfonietta giving musical attention to the themes of youthful courage, all visions, hopes and dreams, and an overarching positive alertness and energy that are sacrificed on the altar of war and the abuse of power. Quotes from the book are recited together with the music.
The pianist, Olga Stezhko, also Belarusian, lives in London. Today she cannot travel to her home country at the risk of being arrested, because of her active oposition against the current dictatorial regime in Belarus.
The actor Helga Guren is engaged at Rogaland theatre.
Insimul Sinfonietta, based in Stavanger, is conducted by Omer Shteinhart.
Kapittel, Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of speech Kapittel
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Tandberg + Kork
New Double Bass Concerto
Store Studio—13.01.2023
Tandbergs new work Dét for double–bass and orchestra, and Fabel for orchestra was premiered on January 13th (2023) by Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor is Jamie Philips, soloist on double bass is Marius Flatby. The entire concert is programmed by Tandberg.
With an added apostrophe the title of Dét(2018—19) is borrowed from a cycle of poems by Danish Inger Christensen (Det). This is considered the author's breakthrough (1969) and constitutes a major work in European literary modernism. The text appears playful and easily accessible, even though it is the result of rigorous construction work. “This is also how I want my music to be; constructed, planned and felt—now and then unpredictable, impulsive and alive”, says Tandberg.
In Christensen’s lyric epic Det, we encounter the constantly changing abstract ‘it’: It. That’s it. Then it’s started. It stays on. […] Will be different. Becoming more. […] Becoming something.Something new […] Will in the next now as new as it can now become.
“The double bass soloist played a small melodic fragment during a preparatory meeting. This became my musical seed. It gradually progresses more clearly but is also disturbed and diverted”, says the composer.
Fabel(the evening's second wp) was created during the spring of 2020, under the corona lock down. The work can be seen as a musical fantasy, characterized by vigilance against looming dangers and by battles being fought. Or it is like a musical fable about the earth as an organism, with its internal energy and its external natural forces, populated by people (hopefully) to be able to take care of species, diversity and resources!
Before the intermission, a short pieces by Fartein Valen (1887—1952), Nenia, was played. The entire second half consists of Dmitri Shostakovich’s (1906—1975) Symphony no.15.
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Polynya refers to a natural icehole or an area surrounded by sea ice. It is now used as geographical term for an unfrozen sea within the ice pack. Some freezes relatively quickly, others have lasted over multiple winters. The phenomenon is fascinating, a bit "against all odds". Perhaps a link to the music itself?
Variabiliteter is based on a cycle of poems by the Danish poet Inger Christensen (from Dét/Logos, 1969). Its reflections on the world and on culture is also a description of communication and interaction between people. Like music, the title “Variailities” also can be explained as “changeability in time and space”. Similarly, synonyms such as alternations, shifts, transitions or variations can describe a musical progression.
Metis is known as the Titan goddess of wisdom and skills in Greek mythology. The word is also associated with the qualities of cleverness and wisdom! Together these are qualities required to create and bring to life a new piece of music. Out in space the innermost of Jupiter’s moons bears this name. There is an element of drama associated with this one. With its irregular shape and an orbit expected to become unstable, in a few thousand years it is likely to crash into the giant planet!
Delta ∆ corresponds to the number four and is the name of the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. This music is for four different instruments, each producing a single (melodic) line. When they are combined, a consonance and a chord or harmony are established. The title describes an area where the river divides and spreads into several branches before entering the sea.
FLØY was commissioned by "5 på Tvers" in 2018 and has since then been performed in connection to Women's Day. The work's title alludes humorously and literally to the first part of "fløyte", which means flute in Norwegian. It is also about aspects of the sound arsenal that the various flutes can produce. The title may be associated with the music flying away, flowing, being in flight, having direction, or in constituting a division, flank or group.
Lydspeil 2022
Parnassius nomion + Tsudoi II
Høst—Riss 04.11.2022
The new work Parnassius nomion [String quartet] by Tandberg was world premeried on November 4th, 2022—at Høst–Riss, in Sarpsborg, by Nhi Phuong Do and Daniel Dalnoki; violins, Bendik Foss; viola and Iver Bunkholt; cello, as part of Lydspeil 2022—a collaborative project with the composer Karsten Brustad.
This music is a tribute to the enormous diversity of species in the world as well as a reminder of the importance of protecting it. The butterflies alone make up 175,000 different species.
Around the turn of the century, the German naturalist Fritz Dörries collected and mapped a great number of plants and animals. Based on his notes, Roy Jacobsen and Anneliese Pitz tell in their 2020 novel about these adventurous world travels. The source of inspiration for the discoveries was a butterfly from the East Siberian wilderness with the magical name Parnassius nomion.
In the string quartet, I try through the music to “recreate” the butterfly’s fragility, elegance and richness of detail. Before dying after a short and hectic love life, Parnassius nomion lays new eggs, so that future butterfly cycles are continued.
The second work premiering at Lydspeil was Tandberg’s Tsudoi II, played by Maiken Mathisen Schau; flute, Daniel Dalnoki; violin and Bendik Foss; viola.
Tsudoi means “coming together, gathering, interact” and the first version was written for flute, koto and celtic harp and was premiered in Japan April 14th 2019.
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Other performances:
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27.05, 31.05
Variabiliteter Narrator and chior SATB. Poem by Inger Christensen translated by Endre Ruset. Ane Dahl Torp and Kammerkoret NOVA conducted by Julia Selina Blank.28.02, 01.03, 07.03
Metis Euphonium and Brass-quintet. Harriet H. Brandsrød and “Fem Messing”.14.06
Fløy flute quintet
performed by “Fem på Tvers” at Vestfossen kunstlaboratorium -
13.03 Borealis, Bergen
Modes and Moves symphonic wind ensee
performed by Sjøforsvarets Stabsmusikkorps, Nils Erik Måsøyvåg (cond.)25.-2903. Kyoto and more, Japan
The White Heron and The Passing World shakuhashi, flute, koto, guitar
performed by ….., Chieko Iwasaki, Marianne Årum, Gjermund Titlestad25.05 NyMusikk Østfold
Polynya bassoon and piano
performed by Leann Currie; bs/Joachim Kwetzinsky; pno -
07.03 + 08.03.24.
The Membranous Labyrinth for violin and piano (WP) performed by Ingvild Habbestad and Joachim Kwetzinsky at Ny Musikk Vestfold (Kammersalen Horten kulturskole) and Klassisk på Venskaben in Asker. The name of the entire project is LYDLAG 2024 - a collaboration with composer Karsten Brustad.09.03. + 9-21.04.24
Fløy for flute quintet performed by ”5 på tvers” in Glemmen church, Fredrikstad and Sande church and at Adams Flute-festival, Ittevoort Nederland (in April)26.05.24
Dét version for Double bass and sinfonietta performed by Marius Flatby and Ensemble Ernst.27.10, 09.+19.11.24
Polynya bassoon and piano performed by Leann Currie; bs/Joachim Kwetzinsky; pno -
13.01.2023
Dét for double bass and orchestra. Marius Flatby, soloist with Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Kringkastingsorkesteret, KORK) conducted by Jamie Philips, NRK Store Studio in Oslo (WP).
More info13.01.2023
Fabel for orchestra. Norwegian Radio Orchestra, conducted by Jamie Philips, NRK Store Studio in Oslo (WP).
More info08.03.2023
Fløy flutequintet. 5 på Tvers TBA13.05.2023
Chiaroscuro for violin, horn (F) and piano with Trio ArCorno, «Kvinnelige spor i Musikkhistorien» in DrammenMore info
15.09.23
Modes and Moves for symphonic wind ensemble with Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps at Ultima - Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
24.09.2023
Blooming, piano soloist, narrator and sinfonietta (WP) w/Olga Stezhko (pno), Helga Guren (n) and Insimul sinfonietta conducted by Omer Shteinhart; Stavanger International Festival for Literature and Freedom om Speech, Tou Scene.
More info
28.09.2023
Duggpunkt for 7 instruments (WP) w/Ensemble Obsidion; Brasswind Festival in Bergen
15, 28, 30.09.2023
Displacements for piano solo w/Olga Stezhko in Bergen (NyMusikk), Oslo (Norwegian Acadamy of Music), Drammen (‘Kvinnelige spor i musikkhistorien’)
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13.02.2022
Ørkenvandringar. Text Einar Økland performed by Ragnhild Vannebo; actress, John Pål Inderberg; saxofones (s, b) and Kari Beate Tandberg; piano in Namsos.04.11 and 05.11 2022
Parnassius nomion for stringquartet premiered by Nhi Phuong Do and Daniel Dalnoki; violins Bendik Foss; viola, Iver Bunkholt; cello in Sarpsborg and Asker.
Watch on YouTube04.11 and 05.11 2022
Attitudes II for actress and piano-quintet, mixed ensemble in Sarpsborg and Asker.04.11 and 05.11 2022
Displacements, Trond Schau; piano-soloist in Sarpsborg and Asker.04.11 and 05.11 2022
Tsudoi II, Maiken Mathisen Schau; flute, Daniel Dalnoki; violin, Bendik Foss; vila premiered in Sarpsborg and Asker (Bendik).
Watch on YouTube10.12.2022
Brikker for 6 piano-players with pupils from Drammen kulturskole, St Hallvard vgs and pianist Monica Tomescu-Rhode, Kvinnelige spor i musikkhistorien i Drammen. -
16.10.2021
Displacements, Olga Stezhko piano-soloist in Oslo, Arena:klassisk.
Watch on YouTube18.10.2021
«Et beskjedent konkurransemenneske» interview in Ballade by Bodil M. Jensen.
Read the interview23.,24, 26.10 2021
Deviations for accordion and stringorchestra with Andreas Angell og Telemark Chamberorchestra in Hamar, Skien and Oslo (WP)11.11.2021
Displacements, Olga Stezhko piano-soloist in London