Current Musical Heritage, Bergen 17 to 19 November 2023
| Friday 17 November |
| 11.30 Opening and welcome note Bergen Public Library, Vårt Vestland Head of Bergen Public Library, Julie Andersland Head and Secretary of International Grieg Society, Arnulf Mattes and Monica Jangaard Short presentation of Grieg Collection by Jorunn Eckhoff Færden |
| 12.00 Lunch break Lunch for active participants Bergen Public Library |
| 12.45 – 14.15 Grieg in Performance 1 – Open lecture-recital with Are Sandbakken, Viola, Norway Bergen Public Library |
| 14.30 – 16.00 European Musical Heritage and Current National Challenges Academic paper session 1 14.30 – 15.00 Arnulf Mattes, Norway: Opening note – Musical heritage now? From archive storage to collective memory 15.00 – 15.30 Hans Weisethaunet, Norway: May we listen to Grieg without listening to Norway? 15.30 – 16.00 Barbara Dobretsberger, Austria: Who owns music? TONO or GEMA? Everybody? Nobody? |
| 16.00 – 16.15 Coffee break |
| 16.15 – 17.45 Academic paper session 1 (contin.) 16.15 – 16.45 Markéta Štefková, Slovakia: Béla Bartók and Slovakia 16.45 – 17.15 Margrethe Støkken Bue, Norway: Verkliste, Work Catalogue, Werkverzeichnis: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet 17.15 – 17.45 Thomas James Solomon, Norway: Revisiting Heritage |
| Saturday 18 November |
| 09.00 – 10.30 Academic paper session 2 Gunnar Sævigs Sal, Grieg Academy 09.00 – 9.30 Marla Fogderud, USA: The Origin of the Norwegian Compositional Voice: Halfdan Kjerulf and the Romanse 09.30 – 10.00 Wilhelm Sollie, Norway: Subjectivity and Objectivity: Exploring Aesthetic-Ideological Evolution in German Organ Culture through the Legacy of Karl Straube 10.00 – 10.30 Stephen Luksan, USA: Bjarne Rolseth in America: The Life and Work of a Norwegian-American Immigrant Composer 10.30-10.45: Coffee break |
| 10.45 – 11.45 Academic paper session 2 (contin.) Gunnar Sævigs Sal, Grieg Academy 10.45 – 11.15 Liubov Syniak, Ukraine: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Edvard Grieg: Art outside politics? 11.15 – 11.45 Wojciech Stępień, Poland: Intertextuality in Igor Stravinsky’s Four Norwegian Moods |
| 11.45 – 12.15 Lunch break Lunch for active participants Grieg Academy |
| 12.15 – 13.30 Grieg in Performance 2: Project presentation with Anton Steck, violin, Germany and Christina Kobb, piano, Norway Gunnar Sævigs Sal, Grieg Academy Discussion |
| 13.30 – 14.00 Coffee break Gunnar Sævigs Sal, Grieg Academy |
| 14.00 – 15.30 Masterclass with Sigurd Slåttebrekk, piano, Norway Gunnar Sævigs Sal, Grieg Academy: Masterclass with students from the Grieg Academy: Sophie Pfarrhofer: Butterfly Op. 43, No. 6 Kateryna Persysta: Notturno Op. 54, No. 4 Marina Matsuoka: Piano Concerto in A-minor Op. 16, 1st Movement Discussion after masterclass, leader: Signe Bakke, piano, Norway |
| 15.30 – 17.00 Crossing Grieg Concert, presentation and talk Gunnar Sævigs Sal, Grieg Academy Håkon Asheim, Hardanger fiddle, Norway Nils Henrik Asheim, composer, piano, Norway Talk with Dániel Peter Biró, composer, Norway https://www.nilshenrikasheim.no/projects/30-crossing-grieg |
| Sunday 19 November |
| 10.00 – 11.30 IGS General Assembly Troldhaugen |
| 11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break Troldhaugen, café |
| 12.00 – 13.00 Academic paper session 3 Troldsalen 12.00 – 12.30 Per Dahl, Norway: Cultural colonization: Opus 5 no.3 as a case study 12.30 – 13.00 Jakub Polaczyk, USA: “Music from dreams – Sursynthesis” Auto Reflection on my recent works versus national European romantic traditions like: F. Chopin, E. Grieg, A. Dvorak. |
| 13.00 – 13.30 Lunch break Lunch for active participants Troldhaugen, café |
| 13.30 – 14.30 Academic paper session 3 (contin.) Troldsalen 13.30 – 14.00 Torkil Baden, Norway: Grieg and Peer Gynt 150 years: timeless stage music or ‘pain in the ass’ for theatre directors? 14.00 – 14.30 Sally Garden, Scotland: Grieg, Garborg and Lewis Grassic Gibbon: classical artsong in the landscapes and battlescapes of Norwegian and Scottish nation-building, past and present |
| 15.00 Grieg, Joachim and Schumann Concert with Anton Steck and Christina Kobb Villa, Troldhaugen Introduction by Monica Jangaard The concert is open to conference participants only. |