In-depth interview with Guoste Tamulynaite

In the run-up to the festival we have published in-depth interviews with all the participants of this year’s Borealis Ung Komponist. The last interview is with Guoste Tamulynaite, who is both a classical performing pianist and an experimental composer!

Lately she has been thinking a lot about musicality, which is also the title of her piece being performed by ensemble YrrY on Friday 17 March during Borealis 2023 next week. Guoste often extracts sounds, movements or objects, and examines the complexity of these individual things. She writes down the ideas on lists that she continuously develops, with an inexhaustible amount of possibilities for exploration. 

Photo: Thor Brødreskift/Borealis

Read Guoste’s interview
Read Susanne’s interview
Read Luke’s interview
Read Eline’s interview

Maryanne Amacher – GLIA

After two sold out shows in Berlin, Maryanne Amacher’s GLIA is coming to Bergen / Åsane Kulturhus, 18 March 20:00–21:00

Here is what you can expect:
You enter a dark room. Seven acoustic musicians are sitting on a pyramid of low platforms. The acoustic musicians begin to play alone, but are soon joined by electronically generated sounds broadcast from speakers scattered around the room. You can walk around and experience different sound zones, lay down in your favourite zone, or sit on a chair at the edges of the room to get the experience more at a distance. Twice in the piece, four of the live musicians walk around in the audience. The piece starts quietly and ends quietly, but in the middle you will experience different intense frequencies as well as volumes.

Don’t forget that there is also a free talk about Maryanne Amacher’s life and work at Bergen Kunsthall on Thursday 16 March, with Bill Dietz and Axel Wieder! 


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In-depth interview with Susanne Xin

In the run-up to the festival, we publish in-depth interviews with all the participants in this year’s Borealis Ung Komponist. Now we have spoken to Susanne Xin, who is a performing artist, pianist, music teacher, and more!

Susanne started the story with her work by telling about when her dad fled the war in Vietnam, out to sea, and ends up in Norway.

Photo: Thor Brødreskift/Borealis

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Balansemerket

We are proud to have achieved Balansmerket, in good company with 36 other organizations that are also actively working towards greater safety and inclusion in the cultural industry.

Balansemerket is an initiative to prevent discrimination and sexual harassment among people working in the arts and culture. They offer workshops, resources, guidelines and suggested actions.

They have interviewed our Managing Director Rachel Louis about some of the actions we are taking to create events that are accessible and interesting to more people, including in Relaxed Performances.

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Borealis Click Card is out!

With a Borealis Click Card you can purchase 3 events at a discounted price.

The click card is not personal and you can use several clips at the same event, so these are ideal if you want to invite friends!

Get your Click Card here!

Borealis on BBC: New Music Show

Listen to GÅOLOGI – a piece about walking in Bergen by Alwynne Pritchard and Eva Pfitzenmaier, on BBC Radio 3 until 6 March!

Alwynne Pritchard is a Borealis 2023 artist, performing wit BIT20 Ensemble at Cornerteateret on Sunday 19.03. Eva Pfitzenmaier is a former Borealis artist, as well as a former Borealis Ung Komponist participant! The New Music Show on BBC Radio 3 also presented Rolf Gupta ‘s In Memoriam from last year’s Borealis, performed by Sjøforsvarets musikkorps (SFMK)! So don’t miss out!

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Re-Imagine Europe

Borealis is thrilled to be part of the new project of Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration of fourteen interdisciplinary arts organisations across Europe. The network has received support from the Creative Europe programme for the project New Perspectives for Action, starting in February 2023.

New Perspectives for Action  is a four-year transnational co-creation and circulation project by Re-Imagine Europe,and builds on the results of the previous Re-Imagine Europe project (2017–2021). New Perspectives for Action aims to equip and empower young Europeans through artistic practices to better withstand societal challenges triggered by rapid climate change. To achieve this aim, the project responds to the needs of artists, organisations and audiences.

Re-Imagine Europe is a collaboration of Paradiso and Sonic Acts (The Netherlands, Elevate Festival (Austria), INA GRM (France), A4 (Slovakia), Borealis (Norway), KONTEJNER (Croatia), BEK (Norway), RUPERT (Lithuania), Disruption Network Lab (Germany), Semibreve (Portugal), Parco d’Arte Vivente (Italy), Kontrapunkt (North Macedonia) og Radio Web MACBA (Spain). New Perspectives for Action is co-funded by the European Union.

Photo: Radiant Live by HC Gilje, Paradiso Amsterdam. Commissioned by Sonic Acts as part of Re-Imagine Europe. Photo by George Knegtel.

Programme Party: Borealis 2023

Only one month before Borealis opens its 20th Anniversary Festival, you can join us in celebration of and insight into what’s to come, on 15.02 from 20.00–21.00 at Bergen Kunsthall, Landmark!

o get us in the mood, Artistic Director Peter Meanwell will be giving us a tour through all the nooks and crannies of the programme. We’ll hear live music from Borealis artist Sigbjørn Apeland on harmonium, and a special first ever duo of Luke Drozd & Eline Rafteseth – both participants of this year’s Borealis Ung Komponist.

There will be snacks and drinks at the bar, and you can even win merch and even tickets, as we roll the balls of fate in our tombola! 

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Elina Waage Mikalsen on NTS Radio!

Lihkku beivviin! 

Our Artist in Residence Elina Waage Mikalsen is presenting an hour of experimental Sámi music for NTS Radio on the Sámi national day, exploring Sámi artists, composers and joikers who squeeze through the genre gaps and make new sound explorations with indigenous roots.

Tune in to NTS Radio Channel 2 on Monday 6 February 15.00–16.00 UK time (16.00–17.00 Norwegian time)!

Tune in here!