CONCERT AND OPENING RECEPTION
Olav H. Hauge & Geirr Tveitt Anniversary 08
Kristin Mulders - Mika Pohjola - Torgeir Kinne Solsvik
Thursday May 15, 6-8pm

You are welcome to join us for the concert and the reception in connection with the opening of the "Harding Puls" Exhibition at the Trygve Lie Gallery

2008 marks the 100 year anniversary for the birth of poet Olav H. Hauge and pianist and composer Geirr Tveitt. Get to know their works and beautiful homeplace Hardanger, as the two artists are honored in New York with a special exhibition and concert.

At the opening reception of the exhibition there will be a concert, which starts off with the young Norwegian mezzosoprano Kristin Mulders. She has worked together with the Finnish-American, New York-based composer Mika Pohjola who has made music to Hauge’s poems especially for Mulders. The second part of the concert is dedicated to Geirr Tveitt’s music, performed by Mulders and pianist Torgeir Kinne Solsvik.

About the artists
Kristin Mulders, mezzo-soprano, started taking voice lessons at the age of 19, when
studying vocal performance at Wartburg College , Iowa . She holds a voice- mastersdegree from the Grieg Academy of Music in Bergen , Norway , where she studied with the Norwegian tenor Harald Bjørkøy and Norwegian soprano Hilde Haraldsen Sveen. The last years she has been periodically in New York studying with professors at the Manhattan School of Music. Despite her short career, she has given numerous recitals both in Norway and abroad, she has been a soloist with several choirs and orchestras, including the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and worked with conductors like Peter Schreier, Andrew Litton, and Eivind Gullberg Jensen. Mulders has done solo-parts in works like i.e. Bach’s Christmas oratorio and St.Johns Passion, Mozart and Duruflé Requiems, Beethovens Symphony no.9, Händels Messiah, Charpentiers Te Deum and Messe de Minuit, and she has appeared as a soloist in productions for the Norwegian television and radio. Her repertoire also includes lieder, opera and baroque music, as well as music from the classical cabaret genre. During the last years she has received several scholarships for outstanding musical progress both from the U.S and Norway . Last year she performed several of William Bolcom’s Cabaret Songs in New York , after working on the songs with the composer himself in Michigan, and later the same year she received very fine critics for her interpretation of Mahler-lieder and Scandinavian art-songs after a tour on the U.S. east-coast. This year she will also be doing several chamber-music concerts in Norway, the Czech-Republic, Holland and Germany.
www.mulders.no

Torgeir Kinne Solsvik studied at the Grieg Academy of Music (bachelor of music.) 1999-2003 and Conservatorium of Music Sydney (Grad.dip) 2003-2004. Based in Norheimsund in Norway. Repertoire includes several works for piano trio including Beethoven, Brahms, Carl Maria von Weber, Martinu, Grieg, Debussy, Mendelsohn and Smetana. Solo repertoire is focused on Edvard Grieg and Geirr Tveitt but also includes works by Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt and Russian composers. Concerts and tours: Soloist Geirr Tveitt concerto no1 Collegium Musicum (2002), Soloist Geirr Tveitt concerto no1 Hardingtonar festival (2005) , Grieg concerts at Troldhaugen (2002), “Dichterliebe” and “Songs of Travel” – tour in north Norway with tenor John Kristian Karlsen(2006). Scholl-concert tour in Nordland in corporation with Nordland theather ( 2006). Piano “four-hand”- tour with pianist Sveinar Aase in north Nowray including works by Schubert, Ravel, Debussy and Grieg (2006). Tour in Russia (St. Petersburg and Petrozawodsk) playing solo works by Geirr Tveitt and trio works by Sigmund Lillebjerka (2006), Music for flute and piano by Mozart, Poulenc and Reinecke- several concerts with flutist Erlend Jordal (2007). He is playing the piano in a new documentary film about the composer Geirr Tveitt.
www.kinnepiano.no

Mika Pohjola. Finnish-born composer and pianist Mika Pohjola has lived in New York City since 1995. His formal education includes degrees in Composition and Performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston and in Jazz Improvisation and Education from the Swedish Royal Academy in Stockholm. Mika has been part of the vibrant New York jazz scene and performed with Ben Monder, Miguel Zenón, Chris Cheek, Fernando Huergo, Drew Gress and many others. In recent years, Mika has also explored natural and synthetic recording environments, which are evidenced on his innovative CD productions. Mika often works as a lecturer in his native Finland and the United States. He also arranges for the ambitious Moomin Voices group, which performs Tove Jansson’s Moomin songs for children. Mika has hitherto released fifteen albums as leader. He has also recorded for Sunnyside Records, Fresh Sound, GM Recordings and Splasc(H) Records, and toured Europe, the United States, Japan and South America with several groups. www.mikapohjola.com

Where: Trygve Lie Gallery, The Norwegian Church at 317 East 52nd Street, New York (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
When: May 15, 6-8pm.
Info: Call (212) 319-0370
Opening hours: Monday – Thurs: 12-7, Friday - Sun: 1-5. Every day from June 15 thru
September 1: 12-5.

Free admission. Donations appreciated.