Oslo based JSB-Ensemble brings together some of Norway’s finest soloists and ensemble singers and instrumentalists with many years of experience from the early music field. Artistic leaders are conductor Julia Selina Blank and baritone Halvor Festervoll Melien. In recent years, Blank has established herself in the European professional field of choral music. Melien works as a concert and opera singer in Norway and Europe. The ensemble mainly performs Bach’s church music or other baroque works in a small, often soloist ensemble, and combines this music with new compositions especially suitable for small ensembles. At the concert at this year’s Oslo Chamber Music Festival, the ensemble performs an a capella programme consisting of Russian, Finnish and Estonian music.