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Doctoral thesis (PhD)

Music performance

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CDs on labels Simax, Pro musica, Lawo og Hermera

 

Profil on Spotify:

 

Sæverud: Concerto op.31 (1996-97)

 

Knut Vaage: Gardens of Hokkaido for piano and orchestra (2006):

 

First perfomance Knut Vaage: Rabalder (2018-19)

 

Valen Trio:

 

First performance Borealis festival 2018:

 

Ketil Hvoslef: Chamber music vol.1-8 (2013-2022)

 

PhD project Norges Musikkhøgskole (2006)

The theme of this dissertation is three important Norwegian piano works. The dissertation includes a main text, a recording and a critical/practical edition of Valen’s Sonata no.2 op.38. By using a musicological/analytical and artistic approach, this dissertation aims to create a greater understanding for these three works as a part of a Norwegian and continental European piano tradition. The main text investigates the contents of the music and how the works are built. It looks at the performance indications in the score and performance practice traditions (historical recordings). References and allusions to other works in the same genres and to similar piano styles are discussed. By looking at possible autobiographical and metaphorical allusions, the dissertation aims at finding an understanding for the works’ origin and meaning. The critical and practical edition contributes for the first time to correct errors and unclear readings of the existing edition and presents a possible realization of Valen’s incomplete score. The main text also includes general criteria for the interpretative choices on the CD.

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Artistic research project Grieg Academy/Norwegian Artistic Research Program:  (Un-)Settling Sights and Styles (2017-2020)

Un-)settling sites and styles: In search of new expressive means. Eight performers (voice, piano, violin, cello), one musicologist and one composer aspired to unsettle their habitual ways of working with musical interpretation of 20th century and contemporary Norwegian composers. By collaborating to develop new perspectives and methods, they investigated questions of style and how different sites influenced their rehearsals and performances. How do performers find new expressive means? How can intersubjective exchange within a research group contribute to articulating tacit knowledge? How can mutual unsettling approaches influence conventional or subjective attitudes of fidelity to a score or a performance tradition? How can novel sounds, musical material and musical meaning emerge beyond prejudiced conceptions or through improvisation? The three-year project was facilitated by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (Grieg Academy), University of Bergen, and resulted in texts, sound recordings, videos, and new commented score editions.

 

Ketil Hvoslef: Chamber music vol.1-8 (2013-2022)

 

Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories (2023):

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