Trondheim Chamber Music Festival 22-29 SEPTEMBER 2024

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Festival 2023 Photo highlights

Kamfest 2023 is over. We want to thank all the volunteers, the audience, the artists, the project managers, the concert managers, to all our public and private supporters and partners - to everyone who has contributed in large and small. Thank you for your enthusiasm and dedication!

Below are some memories from this year's festival.

Welcome back to the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival 22-29 September 2024!


Photos: Kristian Wanvik og Ole Wuttudal.

Festival composer and programme launch Louise Hopkins replaces Daniel Müller-Schott

Festival composer and programme launch

It is with great pleasure and pride that the festival presents Valentin Silvestrov as this year's festival composer. You can experience his beautiful music at many concerts throughout the festival week, and we look forward to presenting the entire festival programme on 13 June.

Valentin Silvestrov is Ukraine's foremost living composer and has been an important voice in European musical life for over 60 years. He fled Kyiv shortly after Russia went to war against Ukraine last year and now lives in exile in Berlin.

His beautiful, quiet, and meditative music is popular worldwide, and the little piece Postlude no. 3 has been played over 11 million times on Spotify!

 

Programme release

13 June at 20.00, Dokkhuset

Finally, we can reveal this year's exciting Festival programme. We look forward to presenting artists, concerts, and this year's festival profile. There will be drinks and light snacks and, of course, musical samples with some of Trondheim´s top musicians:

Mona Spigseth, piano
Jovan Pavlovic, accordion
Arnulf Johansen, oboe
Elin Nilsen, Kristin Svare, Sarah Warner Vik and Ania Kim Nestaas, bassoon
Sigmund Tvete Vik, violin

Free entrance.

Welcome to the programme launch on 13 June!

 

Photo: Lili Viter

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Louise Hopkins replaces Daniel Müller-Schott

The British cellist Louise Hopkins has agreed to replace Daniel Müller-Schott at short notice, both as festival artist and jury member at Trondheim Intl. Chamber music competition. Unfortunately Daniel Müller-Schott has had to cancel due to illness.

Louise Hopkins enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist and cello professor. She has performed in venues internationally collaborating with artists including Thomas Adès, Aleksandar Madzar, András Keller, Dénes Várjon, Tamara Stefanovich, François Leleux, Emmanuel Pahud , Phillipe Graffin, Alexander Janiczek, and the Takács Quartet.

The Times commented on her performance of Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto with the composer conducting at the Barbican Hall that ‘players with such personality, agility and power are rare’.

Louise has participated at major chamber music festivals. She has also been a regular participant at the Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music for over 20 years and has been broadcast on the BBC, RTE, WFMT, Swiss Romande, ABC, New Zealand Radio and Radio France.

Louise is frequently invited to give masterclasses internationally and has held teaching positions at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Bern Hochschule. She is currently the Head of Strings and a cello professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama having begun her teaching career there at the age of 26. The youngest professor to have been appointed at the Guildhall School at that time.

Louise is an experienced jury member and has participated on the juries of Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, Banff and Amsterdam Biennale cello competition to name a few. She was a TICC jury member and festival artist at the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival in 2013.

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