12:00-12:30 The Canteen: Opening
A short musical performance by Henning and Alma Kraggerud. Lecture by Gro Trondalen.
12:30-14:45: Research and Development Walk
12:30-13:00 Room 139: Martin Hirsti-Kvam
13:00-13:30 Outdoors: Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen
13:30-14:00 The Lounge: Installation by Axel Camilla Barratt-Due
14:00-14:30 Bevegelsesrommet: Hytta trio: "Flytende i det innfallsåpne"
Participants
- Anne Hytta (harding fiddle)
- Jo Skaansar (bass)
- Ulrik Ibsen Thorsrud (percussion)
15:00-15:30 The Levin Hall: Øyvind Mæland: "Quality Finish" (urfremføring av utdrag)
Participants
- Jennifer Torrence, Tomas Nilsson, Dagfinn Theodor Ingebrigtsen Holte, Elvin Ingeborgrud Berg, Sigurd Adrian Schøyen, Amund Morgenstierne (percussion)
- Ingrid Berger Myhre (choreographic advisor)
15:45-16:15 Room 139: Haakon Støring: "Fraser, klisjeer og tonalitet: Jakten på 1700-tallets musikalske språk"
16:00-16:45 Auditorium: Marianne Bergløf: Trial Lecture
16:15-16:45 Room 139: Jon Balke: "Group Dynamics"
17:00-17:30 Room 139: Anders Førisdal and Luis Pena: "Real Invention"
Participants
- Anders Førisdal (guitar)
- Luis Pena (synth and live electronics)
18:00-18:15 Prismerommet: Martyna Kosecka: "Skiá"
“Skiá” for solo performer and multimedia is a mini-opera that addresses issues of ageism, objectification and the gendered discrimination women face at various situations and points in life. I approach this theme by examining womanhood through the metaphor of a city — evolving, changing, built, destroyed, rebuilt, yet always enduring. Our experiences, both uplifting and painful, shape who we are. Those marked by prejudice, discrimination, or stereotyping are particularly important to voice — and to transform into art. Who is she then, that woman behind the veil, watching the sunset over Oslo?
Participants
- Martyna Kosecka (music, concept, libretto, electronics, projections and direction)
- Elizabeth Holmertz (vokal, performance)
- Idin Samimi Mofakham (technical assistance)
- Pouya Pour-Amin (sound technician)
18:30 Levinsalen: Remembrance: "Dikt av Brontë og Dickinson"
Tickets: 150 NOK (free for all students). Purchase tickets here: (nmh.ticketco.events)
In the Country, Slettahjell & Reiersrud’s third album, Remembrance, is a unique feminist Norwegian music project rooted in the strong poets, based on the three English Brontë sisters and American Emily Dickinson, who wrote poems on each continent nearly 200 years ago. Brontë and Dickinson had a huge production of high-quality poems, often quite emotional, that still hit home today.
From each side of the Atlantic, these authors point to each other in a quite supplementary way, which gives root to a beautiful and deep dialogue in the music. This dialogue transforms into a new dimension when two of Norway´s finest vocalists, Solveig Slettahjell and Sidsel Endresen, voice this grand project.
The band, whose core is the piano trio In the Country, comprised of pianist and composer Morten Qvenild, bassist Roger Arntzen and drummer Pål Hausken, has since 2014 teamed up with vocalist Solveig Slettahjell and guitarist Knut Reiersrud, and released the same year their Norwegian Grammy-nominated live-debut-album Norwegian Woods on the German label ACT, which was recorded at Berlin Philharmonic hall at the concert series Jazz at the Philharmonic. The band has, since their debut, performed throughout Norway, in addition to festivals and concert halls in Finland, Germany, Austria and the US. They released their first studio album, Trail of Souls, in 2015, and ten years later, in January 2025, they are finally releasing their grandiose album Remembrance on the strong Norwegian label Jazzland. About the album, we say – it’s a tribute to all daughters, mothers and women!
Participants
- Solveig Slettahjell (vocals)
- Knut Reiersrud (guitar)
- Morten Qvenild (keyboards, vocals)
- Paal Hausken (drums)
- Roger Arntzen (bass)
- Sidsel Endresen (text recitation)
