50 eventyrlige år med NMH

50 Wonderful Years with NMH

This academic year, the Norwegian Academy of Music is celebrating 50 wonderful years as Norway’s leading educational institution for musicians. Many of our most important soloists, orchestra musicians and pedagogues have graduated from NMH. It is therefore a pleasure that we have been allowed to kick-start the anniversary and invite to another concert at Oscarshall with some of the future’s brilliant chamber musicians and soloists from NMH’s study programs. This Saturday morning we again offer concerts in both of the castle’s halls. The audience changes rooms halfway through the event and thus gets to experience both concerts.

In one room, we invite you into Robert Schumann’s fairy-tale world. He composed both Märchenbilder (fairy-tale pictures) for viola and piano and Märchenerzählungen (fairy-tales) for clarinet, viola and piano. This morning you’ll hear both.

In the second hall, there will be genuine Norwegian fairy-tale chamber music. Bjarne Brustad was probably best known as a solo violist in the Oslo Philharmonic and as a teacher, but he also had a career as a composer on the side. This resulted in several brilliant works, including the Fairy-tale Suite for violin and Capricci for violin and viola. The concert ends with the exuberant work Glade Musikanter – the Happy Musicians – by Edvard Fliflet Bræin.