Join us for the ASI debut of internationally acclaimed Norwegian concert pianist Oda Voltersvik! From years of touring with symphony and concert halls, Oda brings to Minneapolis a curated program, Edvard Grieg in Dialogue, featuring works of Norway’s most celebrated composer and his contemporaries. Don’t forget to make your dinner reservation with FIKA Café- call (612) 524-5108 or email fika@asimn.org. Program This program will present music by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) corresponding with works by composers active within and after his lifetime, including Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847- 1907), Wilhelm Peterson Berger (1867 – 1942), Claude Debussy (1862 -1918) and Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945), highlighting musical correspondences or similarities in the use of poetic moods and characters. Agathe Backer Grøndahl: 4 Sketches, Op.19 No.2: Allegretto leggiero in A – Flat Major Edvard Grieg: 25 Norwegian Folk Songs and Dances, Op.17 No. 1: Spring Dance Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Norwegian Folk Songs and Dances, Op. 33 No.6: Spring Dance Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 No.6: To Spring Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Fantasies, Op.39 No. 4: Song of the roses Wilhelm Peterson Berger: Flowers from Frösö Island (Frösöblomster), Book 1 No.4: To the Roses Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 No.3: March of the dwarfs Wilhelm Peterson Berger: Flowers from Frösö Island, Book 1 No.7: At Twilight Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 68: IV. Evening in the mountains Wilhelm Peterson Berger: Flowers from Frösö Island, Book 2 No.3: Far Away in the Forest Edvard Grieg: EG.110: Tempest Clouds Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Three concert etudes, Op. 32 No.1: Allegro Intermission Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 No.6: Bell – Ringing (1891) Claude Debussy: Préludes, Book 1: 10. La cathédrale engloutie (1910) Edvard Grieg: Peasant Dances, Op. 72 No.9: Nils Rekve`s Halling Norwegian Folk Tunes, Op.66 No. 6: Lullaby and Cattle Call Peasant Dances, Op. 72 No.4: Halling from a Fairy Hill Béla Bartók: From “Romanian Folk Dances”, Sz. 56 / BB. 68 (1915): III. In One Spot IV. Dance from Bucsum From “15 Hungarian Peasant Songs”, Sz.71, BB.79 (1914 – 1918): 12. Allegretto 13. Poco piu vivo – Allegretto 15. Allegro About the Artist: Oda Voltersvik, “an artist with the talent to make a serious name for herself” (Calum Petrie on Grieg Piano Concerto, Scottish Press and Journal), has performed at international festivals and venues such as Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Victor Borge Hall, Wigmore Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, Norwegian Opera House, Bergen International Festival and Palermo Classica International Festival. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras internationally and as solo- and chamber musician for important concert societies in Europe and in the Unites States. For ten years, Voltersvik has been invited as artist-in-residence for a week at the Edvard Grieg Museum in Bergen, among other recital engagements at KODE composers homes...
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