Thormod Rønning Kvam piano recital: 150 years since Tchaikovsky's The Seasons and Grieg's Ballade in G minor, opening with Sæverud's Fuglefløyt-variasjoner. Proceeds support the Debutserien. Wolfgang Plagge presents the program. Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes including intermission.

Tchaikovsky, Sæverud & Grieg

Ramme gård og Universitetets aula

Chamber music on a grand scale. Strings from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in a program with Wojciech Kilar (Orawa), Anna Clyne (Within Her Arms) and Tchaikovsky (Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70). Running time approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes including intermission.

Souvenir de Florence

Universitetsaulaen

A summer concert in October. Part of the Debut Series, in collaboration with Talent Norge's Podium initiative. Duration approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes including intermission.

2xKraggerud, Rognes, Kauer & Hadland

Vocal sounds from every era. Western Norway's leading professional vocal ensemble in the Universitetsaulaen, conducted by Håkon Matti Skrede. Approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes incl. intermission.

Edvard Grieg Vocal Ensemble & Håkon Matti Skrede

Concert with TrondheimSolistene and journalist Morten Jentoft on music and culture in Eastern Europe. The program is performed without an intermission and runs approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Sounds from a Dramatic Era

An unknown masterwork is brought back to life. A celebration of young creative power with Sibelius' Piano Quintet, Trærne Op. 75, Valse triste Op. 44 and Mozart's String Quartet Divertimento in F major K. 138.

Saphir Quartet & Ossi Tanner: Mozart & Sibelius

Håkonshallen

Four miniature concerts in which the next generation meets established voices. Four half-hour concerts in Håkonshallen, with young musicians performing alongside established names.

Festival Evening: Tomorrow's Stars

From Grieg to our time. Opening concert of the Håkonshallkonsertene 2026 with soprano Mari Eriksmoen and pianist Pål Eide. The centerpiece of the concert is Grieg's song cycle Haugtussa, with the program Etterklang.

Opening Concert: Mari Eriksmoen & Pål Eide

The Nordic Song Treasury. Solveig Slettahjell (vocals), Andreas Ulvo (piano), Trygve Waldemar Fiske (double bass) and Pål Hausken (percussion) present Nordic song treasures and new material in Norwegian. Running time approx. 1 hour and 15 minutes, no intermission.

Etterspill: Solveig Slettahjell Quartet

Havlystparken

Medieval poetry set to music for our time. The texts of the Persian poet Rumi (1207–1273), set to music by Trygve Seim, with voice, saxophone, accordion and cello. The concert is performed without an intermission and runs approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Seim & Augestad: 10 Years of Rumi Songs

A Finnish star duo appearing in Norway for the first time. Senja Rummukainen (cello) and Ossi Tanner (piano) perform a program of Finnish strength and intimacy. Duration approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes including intermission.

Senja Rummukainen & Ossi Tanner: Debussy, Sibelius & Brahms

Musical Fairy-Tale Pictures. Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) and Cecilia Lund Tomter (mezzo-soprano) perform works by Bach, Haydn, Dvořák, Brahms, Schumann and Ketil Bjørnstad.

Musical Fairy-Tale Pictures

Dangerously good folk music. Valkyrien Allstars returns to Ramme with their seventh album, Venter på noen, som venter på noen. A concert without intermission, approx. 1 hour 15 minutes.

Valkyrien Allstars

Poetry and double bass beneath the trees. Author Lars Saabye Christensen and bassist and vocalist Steinar Raknes have written songs about the time we live in, the time we are given, and the time the planet has left. Running time approx. 1 hour and 15 minutes. The concert is performed without an intermission.

Chamber music concert featuring Ibsen's Terje Vigen recited by Ola B. Johannessen, Beethoven's String Quartet op. 95 'Serioso', Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-flat major op. 44, and selected piano pieces by Grieg, Tveitt & Sæverud.

Terje Vigen Meets Beethoven, Schumann & Grieg

Season opening of the Havlyst Concerts with TrondheimSolistene and Herborg Kråkevik. Running time approx. 1 hour and 15 minutes, no intermission.

We Wander Together in Herborg's Songbook

From darkness to light. The concert concludes with Czech composer Josef Suk's Serenade for Strings. Duration approx. 1 hour and 20 minutes. The program is performed without an intermission.

Bergen Chamber Orchestra: Atterberg, Britten & Suk

Chamber music guest performance from Norsjø. The spring season in Oslo concludes with a stellar lineup of young chamber musicians from across Europe.

Gudim & Ringstad with Friends: Elgar's Piano Quintet

A new interpretation of music from an earlier era. Trygve Seim (saxophone) and Tord Gustavsen (piano) interpret Bach's chorales in a genre-crossing concert. Running time approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, without intermission.

Inner Chorals

A new take on early music. Trygve Seim (saxophone) and Tord Gustavsen (piano) interpret Bach's chorales in a genre-crossing concert in the Main Series. Running time approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, without intermission.

Strauss’ final songs from one of our foremost sopranos. It is a delight to welcome TrondheimSolistene back to Bergen. This time they are joined by Elisabeth Teige, who in recent years has enjoyed a meteoric career at the leading international opera houses in the musical worlds of Wagner and Strauss. On the program is Strauss’ immortal Vier letzte Lieder, one of his last completed works — and, of course, Morgen. To bring us back down to earth, TrondheimSolistene perform Gustav Holst’s folk-music-inspired St Paul’s Suite, as well as Beethoven’s String Quartet in F minor, in an orchestral version.

TrondheimSolistene & Elisabeth Teige: Strauss, Holst & Beethoven

Sextet in C major, Op. 37 and Chamber Music (2017) — symphonic chamber music with mezzo-soprano Melis Jaatinen, strings, horn, clarinet and piano. The program is performed without intermission.

Symphonic Chamber Music: Dohnányi & Pépin

A season finale with an oblique look at the 20th century. A program featuring Harald Sæverud and Dmitri Shostakovich, presented by Frode Skag Storheim.

Harmonien Chamber Series: Sæverud & Shostakovich

Canadian supertrio interprets one of Schubert's greatest works. Rilian Trio: Daniel Dastoor (violin), David Liam Roberts (cello), Godwin Friesen (piano). The program includes Schubert's Piano Trio in B-flat major, Shostakovich's first trio and a work by Godwin Friesen. Duration approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes incl. intermission.

Remembering Childhood

A cornucopia of the very rare. Bugge Wesseltoft has performed at Ramme many times already, and with good reason. This July evening we hear his newest album release, which has already rolled up a six on the dice. Am Are is the fifth release in his solo project, which is characterized by reflections on the contemporary world we live in. Program without intermission, duration approx. 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Wesseltoft, Andersen & Nilssen: Am Are

Three stars come together at Ramme. Summer finale in Havlystparken with Miriam Helms Ålien (violin), Sandra Lied Haga (cello) and Ole Christian Haagenrud (piano). Program: Borghild Holmsen, Ravel, Edvard Fliflet Bræin, Jérôme Ducros, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. Running time approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes including intermission.

Ålien, Lied Haga & Haagenrud

Opening of the Havlyst Concerts 2025: a program dedicated to Maurice Ravel with the Oslo String Quartet and pianist Cristian Sandrin. Running time approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes including intermission.

Musical Mirror Waters

Musikalsk poesi. Solveig Slettahjell sings poems by Emily Dickinson and Emily and Charlotte Brontë, set to music by Morten Qvenild, performed with In the Country and Knut Reiersrud.

Remembrance

Unsurpassed world-class artistry. The duo has developed a close and polished partnership through many years of collaboration. With music by, among others, Grieg, Sibelius, Schumann and Boulanger. Running time approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes, including intermission.

Truls Mørk & Håvard Gimse

Rammerommet

A tribute to Ole Paus, performed by Tora Augestad & NyNorsk Messingkvintett. Album release concert for the record Ingenting forsvinner, with new songs by Marcus Paus and lyrics by Ole Paus, without intermission, running time approx. 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Marcus & Ole Paus: Nothing Disappears

Award-winning duo with a brilliant program. Welcome to the opening of the Debut Series — our brand-new, dedicated initiative for tomorrow's classical stars.

Debut Series — Alma Kraggerud & Sebastian Egebakken Svenøy

Season opening and anniversary celebration for the Bergen Chamber Music Society. Tonight's program consists of Mozart's "Hoffmeister" Quartet, Britten's String Quartet No. 3 and Beethoven's "Razumovsky" Quartet.

Belcea Quartet: Mozart, Britten & Beethoven

The concert program is devoted to long, romantic melodic lines: Brahms' Violin Sonata in G major and Saint-Saëns' Piano Quartet No. 2. The concert will be performed without an intermission.

Harmonien Chamber Series: Brahms & Saint-Saëns

Genre play for every taste. This year's Havlyst concerts close on a high note, with two of the country's most beloved and genre-crossing musicians. The repertoire ranges from David Bowie to springleik from Dovre, delivered with affection and humor.

Etterspill with Stian Carstensen & Ola Kvernberg

Classics from the Romantic era. The year's final classical Havlyst concert with Ludvig Gudim (violin) and Christopher Park (piano).

Ludvig Gudim & Christopher Park: Beethoven, Brahms, Brustad & Chopin

A recital featuring baritone Johannes Weisser and pianist Søren Rastogi, marking 20 years since Weisser's debut in the University Assembly Hall. Program: Schumann's Liederkreis, Op. 24, selected Grieg songs, and Schumann's Dichterliebe, Op. 48. Running time approx. 1 hour 10 minutes, without intermission.

Johannes Weisser Sings Schumann & Grieg

A celebration of a national piano icon. A complete piano recital featuring music that has been influential throughout Einar Steen-Nøkleberg's career of nearly 70 years.

Einar Steen-Nøkleberg: 80 Years

A celebration of a national piano icon. A complete piano recital with music that has been influential throughout Einar Steen-Nøkleberg's career of nearly 70 years.

From Mahler and into the future. Chamber music program with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra (KORK): Gustav Mahler – Piano Quartet in A minor; Benjamin Britten – Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 65; Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57.

KORK Chamber Music with Ernst Simon Glaser & Friends

Aularommet

A deep dive into the shifting directions of the 20th century. The songs, or Lieder, written throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, themselves represent an important bridge between poetry and music.

Mahler's Bridges

Aularommet, Ramme

Universitetets aula

A classical encounter with Norwegian folk music. Chamber concert with musicians of the Oslo Philharmonic, featuring works by Edvard Grieg and Johan Kvandal inspired by Norwegian folk music.

Oslo Philharmonic's Chamber Series with Grieg & Kvandal

Reflections on a world in upheaval. A program of works from the 1930s by Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Astor Piazzolla, Alexander Arutiunian and Gisle Kverndokk.

Musical Bridge-Builders in a Time of Change

An energetic, beautiful and thought-provoking start to 2023. Throughout the centuries, classical music has been used for enjoyment and entertainment, but it has also often carried underlying democratic functions — as a voice between the lines that reflects society.

Season Opening 2023 — Building Bridges

An energetic, beautiful and thought-provoking start to 2023. Through the centuries, classical music has been used for enjoyment and entertainment, but it has also often carried underlying democratic functions — as a voice between the notes that reflects society.

A genre crossover of the rarest kind. Our Etterspill series features music on the fringes of the classical world, such as jazz, vaudeville-style song and folk music. Jazz pianist Bugge Wesseltoft and violinist Henning Kraggerud come together in an exclusive genre meeting between jazz, folk tunes and classical music.

Etterspill with Bugge Wesseltoft & Henning Kraggerud

A program for the main stage. Tor Espen Aspaas, piano. In 2022 it is 25 years since pianist Tor Espen Aspaas made his debut — an anniversary program featuring the crown jewels of the piano literature.

Anniversary Celebration: Tor Espen Aspaas

A star-studded celebration of great music introducing this year's season theme, Change of Direction, in collaboration with Fjord Classics.

Season Opening: Change of Direction

The concert introduces this year's theme, Change of Direction, and is held in collaboration with Fjord Classics, which with this concert also launches its program for this year's festival.

A musical journey to a hopeful land. Violin sonatas by Amy Beach, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Aaron Copland, and selected works by George Gershwin.

The American Sound with Zuckerman & Kvam

A musical journey to a land of hope. Violin sonatas by Amy Beach, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Aaron Copland, and selected works by George Gershwin.

A reunion with Oslo Trio in an all-Russian program! Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, followed by Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50.

Oslo Trio in an All-Russian Program

Welcome to the season opening, and to the new Aularommet at Ramme! Concert performance The Dance of Life with Edvard Munch Ensemble / EMBLE, based on Bach's Goldberg Variations and texts by Edvard Munch, recited by Øystein Røger. Program includes Janáček's Violin Sonata and movements from Brahms' and Mozart's piano quartets.

The Dance of Life

The concert performance Dance of Life: a program based on Bach's Goldberg Variations and texts by Edvard Munch, recited by Øystein Røger, together with works by Janáček, Brahms and Mozart.

Autumn Opening with the Edvard Munch Ensemble

Experience star performer Isa Katharina Gericke in partnership with pianist Erling Ragnar Eriksen. Carefully selected songs by Hugo Wolf, Edvard Grieg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Ture Rangström.

Gericke Sings Grieg, Korngold, Wolf & Rangström

Experience star performer Isa Katharina Gericke in collaboration with pianist Erling Ragnar Eriksen. Carefully selected texts and songs by Hugo Wolf, Edvard Grieg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Ture Rangström.

Musical snowfall with a resting pulse. Bugge Wesseltoft warms up for the holiday season with improvisations on folk tunes and Christmas hymns.

It's Snowing on My Piano

From four nights in Bethlehem. Almost 20 years ago, Solveig Slettahjell, Tord Gustavsen and Sjur Miljeteig spent four nights in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and recorded the Christmas hymns on the album Natt i Betlehem.

Aulaseriene

Dec 5, 2026

It's Snowing on My Piano

Dec 12, 2026

Natt i Betlehem

Nov 1, 2026

Tchaikovsky, Sæverud & Grieg

Oct 30, 2026

Souvenir de Florence

Aulaseriene