25.05.2023

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.

29.04.2023

Welcome to the opening of the Trondheim chamber music festival and the performance Fargespill – a firework display of song, dance, music and circus! The city's main hall, Olavshallen, will bubble with enthusiasm and energy when children and young people from all over the world meet in the joy of music and interaction. Joining the stage is a handpicked band led by Christian Aftret Eriksen.

20.04.2023

A MUSICAL THEATRE FROM INSIDE THE BRAIN

A tough guy falls. Punches a hole in the head and ends up in the hospital. Now it's up to Grid Nobel and the other brain cells. Can they work together to save the boy?

12.10.2022

Kamfest 2022 is over. A big thank you to 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! 

27.06.2022

For the 27th consecutive year we welcome you to the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, to be held from the 18th to the 25th of September 2022. This year´s Festival Composer will be none other than Olga Neuwirth. Two renowned string quartets are coming - the Tetzlaff Quartet and the Quatuor Confluence. We will be featuring double basses, music of Schubert, the Norwegian Soloist Choir and «Hyfer» the Norwegian University of Technology´s (NTNU) new festival of Arts and Science. Not to mention the exciting At-home-with concert series, as well as a great performance by Kaleidoscope Trondheim, young immigrants sharing their culture, with the Royal Norwegian Air Force Band. The opening concert promises to be something quite out of the ordinary - a wandering concert through the art gallery K-U-K.

12.10.2021

Kamfest 2021 is over. A big thank you to 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! 

04.06.2021

The Trondheim Chamber Music Festival proudly presents Caroline Shaw as Festival Composer 2021. She joins the list of festival composers at a high international level, such as Steve Reich, Sofia Gubaidulina and Mark Simpson, and fits well into the Kamfest profile; young, innovative and cross-genre.

27.05.2021

The Trondheim Chamber Music Festival proudly presents Mark Simpson as Festival Composer 2020. The young Brit emerged as a prodigious musical talent when he became the first ever winner of both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions in 2006, 18 years old.

14.01.2021

Leif Ove Andsnes was supposed to have played on the new Steinway grand piano in the Free Mason Hall on 28 January. Now the concert is moved to June 17.

01.12.2020

We are happy to announce that the celebrated pianist will visit Trondheim and Kamfest to play solo in the Masonic Hall on our new Steinway. 

28.10.2020

Kamfest 2020 is over. A big thank you to 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! 

07.08.2020

The application is now open, apply before it closes on September 1st.

03.07.2020

Join us on knitting mittons to this years' festival artists!

01.10.2019

Kamfest 2019 is over. A big thank you to 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! We look forward to next year, the 25th festival in a row!

27.09.2019

The final rounds of the 10th TICC competition was held friday 27th of spetember in the Freemasons Hall. The Moldovian/British Mithras trio won the competition with festival engagements and 15 000 €. 

Trio Hèlios came second and won the Knut Lund prize of 10 000€, and Trio Opal came third and won the Kaare Opdal prize of 5 000€. Part of the prize is also a print byNorwegian artist Håkon Bleken.

 The audience prize was won by Trio Opal, and they are invited back to next year’s festival as festival artists.

Jury chairman Lambert Orkis was impressed by all nine trios level of playing. 

Congratulations!

06.11.2018

Trio Opal prequalified to the 2019 Competition at the 2018 Academy. We congratulate the trio, and look forward to welcoming them to Trondheim in September 2019!

22.10.2018

Soprano and lead actress Miah Persson on composer in residence Michel van der Aa's opera Blank Out.

22.05.2018

The Scandinavian premiere of the world's first 3D Opera!

06.04.2018

The festival video is finally here - with lovely memories from the last 7 years. Join us for a stroll down memory lane!

01.10.2017

The Final rounds of the 9th TICC competition was held Saturday 30 September in the Freemasons Hall in Trondheim, Norway. The Scottish Maxwell Quartet won the competiton with festival engagements and 15 000 €. As well as convincing the jury, the quartet also won the audience prize, and are invited back to next year’s festival as festival artists.

30.09.2017

Thursday, Wolfgang Plagge's new version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf - Peter and the Wolf(gang) - was well received by the audience at Dokkhuset. After the concert, our panel discussed music and politics.

27.09.2017

This year, Kaleidoscope Trondheim is playing in the great hall in Olavshallen, and are performing with no less than Trondheim Symphony Orchestra!

23.09.2017

We challenged folk singer Unni Boksasp to find the sound of Trondheim Chamber Music Festival. She teamed up with Trygve Brøske, and here you can hear the result!

09.08.2017

The application is now open, apply before it closes on September 1st.

06.06.2017

With a night time concert in Nidaros Cathedral and Tyrolean music at the new Heidi’s Bier Bar at the Solsiden concert venue, a breadth of musical experiences is assured at this year’s Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, running from 26 September to 1 October. Folk music is also at centre-stage in the festival programme, inspired by the British festival composer Sally Beamish.

21.03.2017

The first concert of the festival was a great success. Dokkhuset, one of the most prestigious concert halls of the city, celebrated its 10 years anniversary with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Trondheim Voices and the Trondheim Soloists on the same stage.

21.03.2017

Festival composer Bent Sørensens best advice for the audience is not to try and understand the music, just listen. During the opening concert in the Nidaros Cathedral, the audience got a close-up of the danish composer's music, and it was love at first sight.

21.03.2017

Europes best chamber ensembles, Pavel Haas Quartet and Trio con Brio Copenhagen, played classical gems in the Freemasons Hall.

09.11.2016

Two international reporters, from the reputable Musical America and Seismograf respectively, visited Trondheim Chamber Music Festival this year. They left the festival with great memories.

07.11.2016

See the 2016 festival video here!

02.10.2016

There were fun for all ages during Amazing Afternoon at Ringve Museum.

01.10.2016

The music got wings when Gabriela Montero and Henning Kraggerud improvised together in the Freemason Hall. And it was great fun, too!

29.09.2016

Sørensen is impressed by the energy of the festival organizers: - They leap, take chances; It's like a free fall, says the Danish festival composer. Watch the video interview here.

01.10.2017

Michael Grolid is a great talent both on viola and as a composer, and this week, he has been an important part of Trondheim Chamber Music Festival. Meet Michael in this video!

01.10.2017

We interviewed this year's festival composer, Sally Beamish, to hear her thoughts on the festival.

27.09.2017