Three months at the farm gave muscles and lots of new ideas! Inspiration and a new force! Watch out, here comes the post covid 19 aera!
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Mon, 2020-04-20 11:05
Da bretter pianisten opp ermene og river til et tak for norsk matproduksjon og jordbruk hos en av Norges største melkeprodusenter; Thorsø Herregård, tre dager i uka mellom konserter og foredrag online fra Nordstrand Bad. Det blir traktor og flygel i ekte moods of norway stil som alltid og masse rå arbeidskraft som gir muskler og karakter. Thorsø Herregård har også et historisk musikkværelse / en konsertsal som jeg skal streame litt konserter fra i tillegg. Norge trenger at alle bidrar nå. Det er mye kjærlighet til dyr og mennesker på Herregården fra de som driver, og mye kunsthistorie i veggene hvor blandt annet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson har tilbrakt lengre perioder av sitt kunstnervirke. Jeg viser muskler for Norge, det føles godt. Vi kommer oss igjennom dette - også. Ved siden av tre dager i uka som gårdsgutt så spiller jeg nesten mer konserter (online) nå enn tidligere....go figure....! "Nød lærer naken kvinne spinne...."
"Masterclass for studentene ved Norgesmusikkhøgskole, bæsj og NRK "kan forøvrig oppsumere én av de siste dagene. Aldri en kjedelig dag på jobb, i alle fall!
Mon, 2020-02-24 09:14
Photo: Kenneth Enstad
Been a wild ride since December. Here are a few highlights! Café de Concert Oslo, Denmark, Red Cross Oslo, Christmas Concert, Sweden, Documentary on Swedish TV, Oslo, Spain, Ålesund, Fredrikstad. New publication on Musikk-Huset coming out this semester whish will blow you and your kids away, can´t wait to show it! Been a week in the mountains now in Valdres, full of snow and ideas on my head! See you on March 26th at the Café de Concert get togehter at Aker Brygge? Stay tuned on social media!
Mon, 2019-11-25 14:25
Grinding. Always grinding. What my pops said.
Tue, 2019-10-01 17:25
Standing ovation in Lublin, Poland, three days ago during the Wieniawski Festival 2019, where also Vadim Brodski performed (!!!). (Last photo from the Lublin Philharmonic Concert Hall) In August I performed a couple of outdoor concerts in collaboration with Jeunesses Musicales (...what, you didn´t know I was Superman and could fly?) before I enjoyed playing in wonderful Copenhagen, which I will do again mid December. When I came back from Copenhagen in August I took into he woods like Robin Hood. Both projects on the pier and the farm made pretty cool stories on tv (TV2) !
Here is a short clip from the concert in Lublin this week, watch (out) from 6 min where I am fooling around with, and improvising over, Chopin while the brilliant Agnieszka Schulz manages to still keep it cool, haha! Click here for the video. Several concerts beeing planned solo and as a soloist with orchestra in Poland and Ukraine stay tuned. A couple of chambermusic concerts coming up next week in Oslo (Bogstad Gård) in addition to a lot of fun at Café de Concert. Let´s plan a playful concert or event together? My place or your place! Hit me - I´m open! (concerts, MC, inspirational lectures, stand up comedy)
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A little P.S. for the local vikings: Klare for julebordsesongen? Jeg kan i den annledning flagge det uimotståelige kinderegget / den trefoldige julegrisen Kolstad:
Jeg kommer ferdig oppvarmet, klar til å bli servert :) |
Fri, 2019-06-21 20:22
This month has been an absolute concert and SUP-mania! Check out the Café de Concert-blog for more photos from all of the SUP events! As of from today most of the concerts are done, though I think I got one or two more in July, so from now on summer vacation will be combined with LOTS of SUP! Stay tuned on facebook and instagram :) Solo concerts in Poland and with orchestra in Ukraine beeing prepared!
Mon, 2019-05-13 10:38
Just came back from an awesome concert experience in Los Angeles, which hopefully will end up in a lagrer scale at the Walt Disney Concert hall this fall. Stay tuned! A few days after coming back to Oslo i did a little guest appearance in a debate about the future of classical music in Norway after a performance at the same event. In between I try to stay cool, lol.
Fri, 2019-03-29 12:26
2019 is blooming with lots of fun concerts and exciting plans! May will consist of concerts in Los Angeles, Iasi (Romania) and probably also Vigo (Spain). In April I will be performing much in Oslo and at Café de Concert. On April 27th I will be playing my newest composistions and some really fresh sketches at 1 pm, stop by and come in! So far this year the concerts in Fredrikstad (Bibliotekets Aula), at Tivoli in Copenhagen, Vulkan Arena, Central Teatret and at the Oslo Grieg Festival have been some of the highlights! Great fun performing for Porsche and also a couple of fun concerts in the favourite color of Moods of Norway: PINK! They are, speaking of which, also BACK in business which I am SO thrilled about! Sun is out and between lazy SUP days on the sea I invite my audience for wieners (Øivind Karlsen pølser, så klart) outside Café de Concert post concerts. Enough talk, let´s hit the SUP boards!!
Sun, 2018-12-09 19:27
November and December are so far equally as much on the stage as on the water. And I still believe I can fly, lol!
Wed, 2018-11-07 20:44
Søndag steg ballongene til værs da Son Spa slo på stortromma og lot undertegnede få frie tøyler....risky business, men med et alltid uforglemmelig og vinnende utfall. Såpebobler, magedans og usensurert humor var noen av ingrediensene publikum fikk servert med tilslørte bondepiker og bakoversveis. Er dere nestemann ut?
Café de Concert rundet faktisk 15 år i slutten av september. For en reise! For et eventyr! Konserter, konsertserier og festivaler i hele Skandinavia og Estland, store deler av Russland og USA, flere land i Asia, på de Karibiske øyer, i Australia, de Arabiske Emirater. Frankrike, Italia. Istanbul 4 egne steder i Oslo, og kronjuvelen på Manhattan, New York. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to persue them", sa Walt Disney. Jeg husker pappa knyttet neven sammen, strammet bicepsen, så meg i øynene og sa: "Always be fearless, Aksel". Da var jeg 7 år. Nå er jeg 37 og jeg ser ut mot horisonten og svarer deg det samme som sist, pappa: Yes, Sir!
Et av høydepunktene i de gamle komponisters liv var vel at det ble laget en byste eller en statue av komponisten i sin egen levetid. I disse moderne tider slår jeg meg på brystet og føler sannsynligvis den samme stolthet over å ha blitt udødeliggjort på dassen til Alna Senter, med et bilde av undertegnede, Lotte Hellstrøm Hestad og stortingsrepresentant Jan Bøhler, nettopp på dassen på Alna Senter. Takk til Hans Georg Helberg for initiativet, det ble en dritbra og intim konsert, og Hans-Øivind Sørem Granerud for å løfte blikket ved pissoaret i dag - på dassen på Alna Senter. Leve galskapen, folkens! Shit happens!
Og ja...vi var SÅ KLART ute og SUPet utenfor Son Spa før konsert!!!!!!
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