“Camilla Ediassen and Friends” come together in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on April 4 at 8 PM. They will perform a varied program of music by Russian, Norwegian, American, and Scottish composers. Soprano Camilla Ediassen, flutist Ingrid Holmen and pianist Erling Erikson makes the Norwegian Trio.
Tickets
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Some of the works to be performed is Mussorgsky's The Nursery; Prokofiev's Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Op. 27; Rachmaninoff's "Lilacs," "How fair this Spot!," and "Sing not to Me, Beautiful Maiden;" Nystroem's Soul and Landscape; Sommerfeldt's Hildring i Speil (Mirage in a Mirror), Op. 48; Grieg's Four Songs, Op. 21; Grieg's From Monte Pincio, Op. 39, No. 1; Thea Musgrave's Primavera for Soprano and Flute; Nicholas J. White's Three Songs from 20th-Century American Poets; and Bernstein's I Hate Music - A Cycle of Five Kid Songs .
About the artists:
Camilla Ediassen, Soprano
Camilla Ediassen studied at the The Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, Russia, completing her master's degree in vocal performance in 2008. She has studied with Håkan Hagegård, Barbro Marklund-Petersone, Eugenia Garachovskaja, and Ian Partridge, and has performed in Scandinavia, England, the USA, Russia, Belarus, and Sudan. Ms. Ediassen made her debut with Den Nye Operain Bergen, Norway, in 2009 as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, and as one of the leads in the contemporary opera Hypermusikal by Glenn Erik Haugland. In 2011 she made her debut at The Norwegian National Opera in the same opera. She is currently studying with Barbara Bonney, John Lidal, and Mona Julsrud.
Ms. Ediassen also develops and performs in independent projects with fellow musicians and composers, presenting contemporary music for children through a creative process in which the children participate. These projects are funded by The Norwegian Art Council and Concerts Norway (Rikskonsertene).
Ingrid Holmen, Flute
Flutist Ingrid Holmen is a native of Lier, Norway. After finishing her degree at the Conservatory in Stavanger in 2003, she entered The Norwegian Academy of Music, where she completed her master´s degree in performance in 2008. As a freelance flutist since 2006, she has worked with top orchestras and ensembles in Norway, including The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, North Norwegian Opera and Symphonic Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. She has studied with flutists Jacques Zoon, William Bennett, Andrea Liberkneckt, and Pierre Yves Artaud.
Erling Eriksen, Piano
Erling R. Eriksen, a professor at the University of Stavanger and at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, Norway, studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover with Einar Steen-Nøkleberg and Hans Leygraf, and at the Hochschule für Musik Munich with Alfons Kontarsky. He has given concerts across Europe as well as in the USA, Canada, China, and Japan. In 2007 his complete recording of J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Klavier (UiS) received critical acclaim. Other recordings include Eyvind Alnæs: Piano Music (Toccata Classics), Songs by Edvard Grieg (Naxos), Christian Sinding (Naxos), Eyvind Alnæs (Simax) with soprano Bodil Arnesen, and 1-2-3 Happy Happy Happy! with Stavanger New Music Ensemble (Aurora). In 2000 he was awarded the Norwegian Grieg Prize. Additionally, he has given master classes in Rome, Pescara, Stockholm, Weimar, Paris, Nanjing, and Guangzhou.