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A beautiful work written specially for the girls' choir. The festival aims to give contemporary works that have already premiered a longer performance life, and offers a reunion with new Norwegian music when Det Norske Jentekor and conductor Anne Karin Sundal-Ask perform Ørjan Matre's Stjernebru. Matre has arranged nine Norwegian folk tunes for girls' choir, accordion and fiddle, with written-out and improvised interludes.

Stjernebru

Ris kirke

A unique Norwegian compositional voice meets Norway’s leading piano star as Leif Ove Andsnes premieres Ørjan Matre’s Piano Concerto. Thomas Søndergård conducts Matre’s orchestral work Lyric Pieces, inspired by Edvard Grieg’s piano miniatures, along with Richard Strauss’ virtuosic and self-revealing symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben.

Thomas Søndergård Leif Ove Andsnes

Oslo Concert Hall

Jubilant choirs in high church halls, hardly anything reminds us more vividly of the deeper meaning of Christmas: the birth of a child and the promise of a happy future. And so the NDR Vokalensemble groups its Christmas concert around Johann Sebastian Bach’s motto »Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied«. Bach has two choirs compete with each other in the praise of God. And the magnificent final fugue »Alles was Odem hat, lobe den Herrn« with its virtuoso colouratura really hardly gives the singers a chance to catch their breath.

Composer

Ørjan Matre

Events

Past events

Mar 15, 2026

Stjernebru · Oslo International Church Music Festival

26 - 27 Feb, 2026

Thomas Søndergård Leif Ove Andsnes · Oslo Philharmonic

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