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Eivind Gullberg Jensen
Eivind Gullberg Jensen (born 1 April 1972) is a Norwegian conductor. Biography Jensen studied violin and conducting in Trondheim. He continued his conducting studies with Jorma Panula in Stockholm and in Vianna with Leopold Hager. Jensen has also participated in conducting master classes with Kurt Masur and David Zinman. From 2009 to 2014, Jensen was chief conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie. In June 2019, Bergen National Opera Bergen National Opera () is a Norwegian opera company based in Bergen. The company has its administrative headquarters at the ''Grieghallen''. History Originally called ''Den Nye Opera'' (the new opera), Bergen National Opera was established as ... announced the appointment of Jensen as its next general director and artistic director, effective in 2021. In September 2024, Bergen National Opera announced an extension of Jensen's contract through 31 December 2030. In 2018, Jensen first guest-conducted the Noord Nederlands Orkest (NNO). J ...
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Horten
Horten () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Jarlsberg. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Horten (town), town of Horten. Other population centers in Horten Municipality include the town of Åsgårdstrand and the villages of Nykirke, Skoppum, and Borre, Norway, Borre. The municipality is located on a peninsula along the Ytre Oslofjord. The municipality is the 340th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Horten is the 42nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 27,682. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 4.1% over the previous 10-year period. Borre mound cemetery, Borre National Park contains the largest known burial site in Scandinavia. It also has the largest collection of king's graves in Scandinavia. The local newspaper in Horten is named , and covers mostly ...
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Bergen National Opera
Bergen National Opera () is a Norwegian opera company based in Bergen. The company has its administrative headquarters at the ''Grieghallen''. History Originally called ''Den Nye Opera'' (the new opera), Bergen National Opera was established as a foundation in 2005 by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Den Nationale Scene, Grieg Hall, Grieghallen and the Bergen International Festival. In 2007, Opera Vest became a part of the foundation, which aims to be the regional opera company for Western Norway. The company adopted the name ''Bergen Nasjonale Opera'' in 2012. The foundation is supported by the Ministry of Culture (Norway), Ministry of Culture, the Vestland county, the city of Bergen, and private supporters. The company's principal artistic partners are the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the ''Edvard Grieg Kor''. Past artistic directors have included Stein Olav Henrichsen (2005–2010) and Mary Miller (2010–2020). In June 2019, Bergen National Opera announced the appo ...
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Norwegian Composers
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1972 Births
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908 in science#Astronomy, 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 – The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth, RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' catches fire and sinks in Hong Kong's Victoria harbor while undergoing conversion to a floating university. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after s ...
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Andrew Manze
Andrew Manze (born 14 January 1965) is a British conductor and violinist, noted for his interpretation of Baroque violin music. Biography Born in Beckenham in Kent, England, Manze read Classics at Clare College, Cambridge. He studied violin and worked with Ton Koopman, his director in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and with Simon Standage, his teacher in the Royal Academy of Music. He began his musical career as a specialist in Early Music, and has recorded as a soloist for such labels as Harmonia Mundi. He became associate director of the Academy of Ancient Music in 1996. From 2003 to 2007, Manze was artistic director of The English Concert, with whom he recorded commercially for Harmonia Mundi. He has also conducted recordings on labels such as Onyx and Pentatone. Manze was associate guest conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) from September 2010 to August 2014, and recorded with the BBC SSO for Hyperion. Outside the UK, from 2006 to 201 ...
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Eiji Ōue
is a Japanese conductor. Biography Oue began his conducting studies with Hideo Saito of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1978, Seiji Ozawa invited him to spend the summer studying at the Tanglewood Music Center. There he met Leonard Bernstein, who became a mentor. Oue won the Tanglewood Koussevitzky Prize in 1980.Biography in "Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba, suite, et al." Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue, conductor. Sound recording :(RR-95CD) He also studied under Bernstein as a conducting fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. Oue became music director of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras in 1982, a post he held until 1989. He was music director of the Erie Philharmonic from 1990 to 1995. He has also served as associate conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1995 to 2002, he was music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. During his Minnesota tenure, the orchestra saw its attendance decline from 84% to 69% in capacity. He presided ove ...
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Noord Nederlands Orkest
The Noord Nederlands Orkest (NNO; English, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra) is a Dutch symphony orchestra based in Groningen (city), Groningen. The NNO performs at ''De Oosterpoort'' in Groningen and also on a regular basis at these venues in the provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe: * Drachten, ''De Lawei'' * Emmen, Netherlands, Emmen, ''Atlas Theater'' * Hoogeveen, ''De Tamboer'' * Leeuwarden, ''De Harmonie'' * Meppel, ''Schouwburg Ogterop'' * Stadskanaal, ''Theater Geert Teis'' History The historical roots of the NNO date back to 1862, when the ''Orkest der Vereeniging De Harmonie'' (Orchestra of the Society ''De Harmonie'') was established in Groningen. This orchestra attained independent status in 1926 under the name ''Groninger Orkest Vereeniging'', which was further renamed the ''Noordelijk Filharmonisch Orkest'' (NFO) in 1962. In 1989, the NFO was merged with a second orchestra, the ''Frysk Orkest'' (originally from Leeuwarden), to establish the NNO in its ...
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NDR Radiophilharmonie
The NDR Radiophilharmonie is a German radio orchestra, affiliated with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony. The orchestra principally gives concerts in the ''Großer Sendesaal'' of the '' Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen''. History A historical precursor orchestra was the ''Niedersächsisches Sinfonie-Orchester'', a radio orchestra that was affiliated with the ''Nordische Rundfunk Aktiengesellschaft'' since the late 1920s. Following World War II, with the founding of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR), the current orchestra was founded in 1950 originally as the ''Rundfunkorchester Hannover''. Willy Steiner was the first chief conductor, beginning in 1950, and held the post until 1975. During his tenure, the orchestra later changed its name to the ''Radiophilharmonie Hannover''. In 2003, the orchestra took its current name of the ''NDR Radiophilharmonie''. After Steiner, chief conductors have been Bernhard Klee, Eiji Ōue and Eivind Gullber ...
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a Dependencies of Norway, dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also Territorial claims in Antarctica, claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country has a total area of . The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea. The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of Petty kingdoms of Norway, petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway ...
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David Zinman
David Zinman (born July 9, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American conductor and violinist. Education After violin studies at Oberlin Conservatory, Zinman studied theory and composition at the University of Minnesota, earning his M.A. in 1963. He took up conducting at Tanglewood and from 1958 to 1962 worked in Maine with Pierre Monteux; he served as Monteux's assistant from 1961 to 1964. Career Netherlands Zinman held the post of second conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra from 1965 to 1977 and was principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 1979 to 1982. United States Zinman served as music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1974 to 1985, during the last two years of which tenure he also was principal guest conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He became music director in Baltimore in 1985. There he made several recordings for Telarc, Argo, and Sony. He also toured widely and began to implement ideas from th ...
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Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur (; 18 July 192719 December 2015) was a German Conducting, conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and also served as music director of the New York Philharmonic for about ten years. He made many recordings of classical music with major orchestras. Masur is also remembered for his actions to support peaceful demonstrations against the East German government in the Monday demonstrations in East Germany, 1989 demonstrations in Leipzig; those protests were part of the events leading up to the Berlin Wall#Fall of the Berlin Wall, fall of the Berlin wall. Biography Masur was born in Brzeg, Brieg, Province of Lower Silesia, Lower Silesia, Weimar Republic, Germany (now Brzeg, Poland), and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony. His father was an electrical engineer, and as a young boy he completed an elec ...
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