Sunday, May 30, 2010

Garden and house-concert at Aksel´s place



Stand up comedy with Aksel Kolstad on "Russians" and Fred Uno Huvenes on "Arabic litterature", Russian Gipsy songs by Solfrid Molland, Shumann Gershin/Kolstad by Aksel Kolstad, Benjamin Britten´s solo suite for cello by Ingvild Nesdal Sandnes and a little encore by Farué... and THEN the party began... <3 Don´t miss out on our next house-concert :)
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Full house at Caffe Vivaldi






We performed at the legendary Caffe Vivaldi again yesterday night with a full house of crazy Norwegians and local customers.
Aksel was on fire, super inspired by the wonderful musicians Jessie Montgommery and Amanda Gookin. These two gifted musicians seduced the audience in a way Café de Concert has never seen! And the best part is that they are super cool too!!
A lot of projects in the US will involve these two in the future, and Café de Concert will actually be bringing them to Fredrikstad Café de Concert festival in Norway already this September! Watch out Norway, here comes two funky musicians!!



Great party after the concert...



PS: And guess who showed up, guys - the superfamous Norwegian comedian Sturla Berg Joannsen!! :)

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

17th of May in New York



"I remember my first time in New York on May 15th 2007. Walking down Lexington Avenue and 53 Street with a heart raceing like lightening, towards what was to become where my creative Manhattan-soul would blossom like never before, The Norwegian Seaman´s Church. I still have that feeling, walking down Lexington and 53rd, every time. The community of wonderful people and insanely gifted artists inspire in ways no pen in my power can yet describe. Celebrateing Norway´s National Day with all of these great people both working and hanging out at the church makes me so incredibly Norwegian! And there is nothing more Norwegian than beeing Norwegian and playing Norwegian music abroad. Especially when performing one´s own contemporary music, like I did during the official 17th of May-concert at 7 pm, last night. This was definitly the best national celebration in my life!! And I got to lead the whole parade, in my new, pink Moods of Norway-suit:) Huge Café de Concert-concert at Caffe Vivaldi tomorrow, can´t wait!!

Sincerely, Artistic Director of Café de Concert in New York - Aksel Kolstad"







Sunday, May 9, 2010

Full house at the opening of the Nordic Chambermusic Center




Full house (actually more than full) at the grand opening of the Nordic Chambermusic Center at Elingaard in Fredrikstad yesterday evening. Aksel hit it off with some of his own variations over Bach´s Goldberg Variations, then he performed Mozart piano concerto nr. 11 and Gershwin´s Rhapsody in Blue with Café de Concerts vital and energetic Fredrikstad Chamber Orchestra. Next concert at NCC is on June 3rd, a supercool outdoor garden concert. Don´t miss it! And to all you classical musicians out there - NCC is the place to be!!