Gallery Café de Concert Oslo - grand slam opening

BMW cars, red carpet, champagne, celebreties, wiener sausages and classical music = Gallery Café de Concert!
We started off with a mini concert for all of our wonderful sponsors and partners at 7 pm. Musikk-Huset A/S, Steinway and Sons, BMW, Marthinussen Piano og Musikksenter, Geneva, Next Oslo, Øyvind Karlsen pølser CopyCat and "Basketballstore"... thank you so much for makeing this possible! Oda Hilde, Ivan Valentin and Ole-Christian Haagenrud gave us a sparkling taste of Grieg and Mendelssohn´s trios in c minor, "intermezzoed" by Kolstad performing his Harlequin Variations over a theme by Bach.









And at 8 pm the rest of the Café de Concert-groupies joined the party :)


















"stay tuned, more photos from the party will be posted tonight...."

And let´s not forget the legendary mini-basketball tournament!!



"stay tuned, more photos from the tournamet will be posted tonight...."

So.....

Come on inside Gallery Café de Concert at Tjuvholmen in Oslo!
Take a look at our photo and paiting exhibitions, try out some of our great instruments, enjoy the chamber music concerts in the evenings, stay tuned on www.cafedeconcert.no

Buy some food from Wayne´s Coffee or Edge Restaurant next door - or just bring something from your own refridgerator, work online, have your meetings here, get to know new compositions by young Norwegian composers in our little library or just chill out and relax :)

Book Café de Concert for private parties, or book a concert from us to where ever you´d like to have it. We´ll custumize everything you want. Café de Concert is the biggest impressario in the northern part of Europe with great young and established artists in world class.

And also - we got the best wiener sausages in the world - "Øyvind Karlsen pølser"
Mon-Fri 4-8 pm! Welcome to your own, urban living-room! Let´s dance !! :)

Café de Concert´s new crib in Oslo

In september 2009 we opened up the world´s first classical concert café - with concerts every day, sometimes even twice a day.
We proved to the world that we were able to do it. And now - we are doing something new. On February 18th we are opening the Café de Concert Gallery. A flag ship store for Café de Concert, with a brand new style. Two rooms faceing the wonderful seaside of Tjuvholmen in Oslo will be decorated into living-rooms with vintage "old school" furniture, with two grand pianos in each room. Back to the roots, Café de Concert is takeing you back to school, back to doing chamber music concerts where they first were held, in chambers, in living-rooms! And as you can see, Mr. Kolstad is very happy about this! (Jesus, he looks like he just recieved his first baby!!)



The front room will be a showroom where all the concerts will be held. Not as many as two each day, a little more exclusive this time - maybe a couple each month. The second room will be an "atelier", where composers, ensembles and other artists can work and experiment. So now we got an even better window to show the world what goes on in our minds, dear collegues. Let´s show them - papa´s got a brand new style! Don´t miss the grand opening, friends! Red carpet, champagne, BMW-cars, stars from the music industry performing, glam and lots of fun! Litimed invitations, so please email aksel.kolstad@cafedeconcert.no for reservations asap!

We have been blessed with a lot of sponsors, especially thank´s to the publisher Musikk-Huset A/S, we were able to seal this deal with Tjuvholmen KS, who gave us an extremely sweet deal. Steinway is allways in the paint with us, lending us yet again a fabulous grand piano. A lot of other great and exiting new sponsors have also trooped together and given Café de Concert the ultimate giant leap into makeing history once again. Tom Wilhelmsen Stiftelse, BMW, Geneva, Øyvind Karlsen and Bård and Mona Wendelborg.

Today it is 2 weeks before the grand opening. A lot has to be done before that, but I´d like to show you photos of the empty space as it is right now, and then show you the result in two weeks :)