Johan Dalene performs Carl Nielsen’s Violin Concerto and Ørjan Matre creates an otherworldly experience from a collection of Edvard Grieg piano pieces. This Nordic Soundscapes Festival program is conducted by our Music Director Thomas Søndergård.

Ørjan Matre’s Lyric Pieces for Orchestra is a modern “remix” of six miniatures by Edvard Grieg originally written for solo piano. In his modern reimagining, Matre takes Grieg’s material, adds full orchestra and presents it all through a modern kaleidoscope of minimalist techniques. The final move...

Principal Clarinet Gabriel Campos Zamora left his home in Costa Rica as a teen to study in the US at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Today, he finds connection off stage with his wife violinist Sabrina Bradford, their dogs and his team of international soccer mates. Thank you to Lauren B. Ph...

Carl Nielsen's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, completed in 1911 while staying at Edvard Grieg's family home, bridges 19th and 20th century musical sensibilities with its lush themes and unconventional structure. The work unfolds in two expansive movements—each beginning with a slow introducti...

Based on traditional Swedish folklore, Hugo Alfvén's Mountain King Suite distills his evening-length ballet about a shepherdess abducted by a mountain king. This suite showcases Alfvén's gift for lush, programmatic music with four contrasting movements that include triumphant fanfares, enchanting...

Composed as incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name, Edvard Grieg's Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt features four memorable movements drawn from his original 23-piece score. Though initially reluctant to undertake the project, Grieg created iconic melodies that stand independent of t...