CONCERT OF Trio MarmaroS (NORWAY)
Michael Andreas Grolid – violin
Martin Stangebye – cello
Martin Stangebye – cello
Oskar Abel Valand Halvorsen – piano
Øistein Sommerfeldt (1919 – 1994, Norway):
Little Suite for Piano Trio, Op. 40 (1973) *
I. Allegro
vivace
II. Andante
sostenuto
III. Presto
scherzando
Kristian Lindeman (b. 1942, Norway):
From Chansons
sentimentales for solo piano (1996) *
II. Champs-Élysées
Michael Andreas Grolid (b. 1997, Norway):
Piano Trio (2015 – 2016) *
Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907, Norway):
Andante con moto in C minor (1878)
Øistein Sommerfeldt (1919 – 1994, Norway):
Mini-Suite for Solo Cello (c. 1977) *
I. Adagio
elegiaco
II.
Allegretto semplice
III. Allegro
leggiero
Trygve Madsen (b. 1940, Norway):
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, Op. 57 (1986/1991) *
I. Allegro
moderato
II.
Allegretto scherzando
III. Andante
con moto
IV.
Allegretto grazioso
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* Bulgarian premiere
* * *
Michael Andreas Grolid (b.
1997) has been playing the violin and viola for ten years. He is pursuing a
bachelor’s degree at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, with Soon-Mi
Chung and Peter Herresthal as his main teachers. He has won several national
competitions, including the Midgard Competition (2013), the Young Musicians
Championships (2014) and the Sparre Olsen Competition (2014).
He
has been composing for many years. In recent years, he has taken several
lessons with the Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk. His first piece OK was premiered in 2009 by the Barratt
Dues Children Orchestra in Ås church. When he was twelve, he wrote the chamber
opera The Monk, based on his
grandmother's libretto. The opera has been performed three times, first in
Denmark and twice in Ås. In December 2014, the Engegårdkvartetten performed Michael’s Oktett-sats together with one of his quartets in Ås church. In
February 2015, his Ouverture for Fiddle and Orchestra was performed by the
Barratt Due Symphony Orchestra at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, conducted by
the Venezuelan conductor Dietrich Paredes.
Michael
was soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in April 2015, where he
played two movements of his own Viola Concerto. He played one movement with the
Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra in March and the whole concerto with the
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra in April 2016.
Martin Stangebye
(b. 1997) has been playing the cello for 12 years. He studies at the Barratt
Due Institute of Music in Oslo with Bjørn Solum – principal cellist of the Oslo
Philharmonic Orchestra. He has studied with professors Francis
Gouton, Nicklas Jones, Jakob Kullberg, Gustavo Tavares, Natalie Clein, Henrik
Brendstrup, Jakub Tylman, Thomas Strasil and Aage Kvalbein.
Martin
has participated in several international courses and orchestras, including Astona International Summer Academy
(Zug, Switzerland), Voksenåsen Summer Academy (Oslo), UpBeat Summer Academy (Brac, Croatia), Valdres Summer Academy
(Norway), the Orchestra Norden (Aalborg, Denmark), the Norwegian Youth
Orchestra (Elverum) and the German-Scandinavian Youth Philharmonic (Berlin).
His
greatest performance to date was in the summer of 2015, when he played as a
sectional leader and as a soloist in some of Europe's best concert halls with
Joseph Swendsen
as a conductor and with soloists like Ray Chen and Guro Kleven Hagen.
Oskar Abel Valand Halvorsen
(b. 1998) had his first musical encounters as a performer in the autumn of
2007, when he started playing percussion in a symphonic band, and had his first
attempts at the piano in the spring of 2008 with Adràs Hidàs as a teacher.
Since the autumn of 2010, he has been studying piano with Einar Rusten, PhD. In
2014 he was admitted to the Young Talents Programme at Barratt Due Institute of
Music in the class of Marina Pliassova. He also studies composition with Rune
Rebne at the Talent Developing Programme at the Norwegian Academy of Music and
with Arnt Håkon Ånesen at the Barratt Due Institute of Music.
As
a symphonic band player, he has annually been participating in the first
division of the Norwegian National Championship for young symphonic bands from
2011 and, from 2013, also for older symphonic bands. He also played the piano
in addition to percussion.
In
2013 Oskar entered the Young Musicians Championships as a pianist and got to
the national semi-finals.
Since
the Christmas of 2014 he has occasionally been playing percussion and timpani
with one of Norway's leading brass bands, Oslofjord
Brass. He also participated in the Norwegian Youth Festival of Arts as a
pianist, a marimbist and a bass drum player in a drumline in 2010, 2015 and
2016.