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Festival programme

 

Sunday 21 February, Firth Hall, 3pm

Jazz with Johan Delin (double-bass) and friends

Susie Bishop, Vocal and Violin

Willie Lok, Piano

Johnny Hunter, Drums

Click here to see a programme note by Johan Dehlin and photos

 

Wednesday 24 February, Firth Hall, 7.30pm

Signe Asmussen (mezzo-soprano) and Benjamin Frith (piano)

give a recital of the best-known Scandinavian songs and piano music including

works by Sibelius, Grieg, Nielsen and many less well known composers

Click here to see full programme

 

Thursday 25 February, University Music Department, 1pm

Signe Asmussen gives a masterclass in song for students

and members of the public, accompanied by Heidi Rolfe

 

 

Friday 26 February, Drama Studio, 1.10pm

Signe Asmussen and Peter Hill (piano) give a recital of contemporary music including

Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens and

Gunnar Berg's 10 Hakusai Woodcuts

 

Tuesday 2 March, Sheffield Cathedral, 1.15pm

Andrew Linn (organ) gives a recital of Scandinavian music for organ

Click here to see the full programme, notes and a photo

 

Tuesday 2 March, Firth Hall, 7.30pm

Hardanger fiddlers from the Ole Bull Academy, Stavanger, Norway,

give a performance of dance and violin folk music

 

Tickets: www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts or phone 0114 222 8777

Info: concerts@sheffield.ac.uk

www.nordic-studies.group.sheffield.ac.uk

 

This festival is presented by the Sheffield Centre for Nordic Studies & the University of Sheffield with support from Norden, the Nordic Cultural Fund, and the Embassy of Denmark