On behalf of the University of Stavanger, Norway and Bjergsted Trombonelaug it is a pleasure to invite Academic Brass Students to our Bjergsted Brass Festival in Week 38 – 2024. This year we have some fantastic guest artists and guest ensembles coming. The theme is “Early Brass” and we will focus on both repertoire played on modern brass instruments and historical instruments.
Application form. Application deadline 20. August
Festival: 18. - 22. September 2024
Bjergsted Culture park
Welcome to the inspiration course for brass players
Bjergsted Brass Festival takes place in Bjergsted culture park every autumn in week 38.
Bjergsted Brass Festival is a week of inspiration for brass players of all levels. It is held in Bjergsted Cultural Park every autumn in week 38 in the University of Stavanger's premises in Bjergsted Park. The event is a collaborative project between the Faculty of Performing Arts at the University of Stavanger, Stavanger Culture School, Stavanger Cathedral School's music department, Vågen High School's music department, the Norwegian Brass Association's Rogaland branch and the non-profit organization Bjergsted Trombonelaug.
For the Brass Festival, we bring in top international artists who can inspire, motivate and share their rich knowledge with all the course participants.
Timetables and practical festival informationjon
The theme this year is "Early Brass".
The festival is open to music students at colleges/universities, freelancers, music educators and professional performers. Most of the activities will be on modern brass instruments, therefore participants who do not have access to their own historical brass instruments will get full benefit from the festival. Activities during the festival will be: daily exercises, chamber music, master classes, lectures and a public concert where you will be both listeners and partially active participants in various ensembles.
The weekend festival starts on Wednesday 18. September 2024 at 16.00.
The final concert of the festival will be on Sunday 22. September at 15.00 (finish latest 16.15).
Attending the festival is free and includes all festival activities and public concerts. The University of Stavanger can offer all active participants 3 ECTS for festival participation on the condition that you are a student at a higher music institution. In order to register to receive study credits, some information is needed in the registration form. It will be possible for brass groups from various European colleges - in collaboration with their local college - to organize Erasmus + scholarships or Nord plus scholarships to participate. If this is to be organised, the practical cooperation between the institution and UiS must be initiated quickly in order to arrange all practical details. Then contact the director of the festival, PK Svensen.
We hope as many people as possible want to participate actively in this year's Bjergsted Brass Festival. To register, you go to the registration form and register there. In case of high demand, we may have to limit the number of active participant places, so the "first come, first served" principle applies to be guaranteed a place at the seminar.
All Festival Concerts are included and free of charge for all active Festival Participants.
This year too, thanks to good support from our partners, we have had the opportunity to invite an impressive number of guest teachers and soloists. See details in the guest list below.
Guest artists 2024
Here you will find an overview of all the guest teachers contributing to this year's Bjergsted Brass Festival.
Guest teachers at Bjergsted Brass Festival 2024 are:
The ensemble comes with 12 musicians to participate in the festival.6 brass players and an ensemble which also includes strings, organ and percussion.
The ensemble comes with 7 musicians: 3 sackbut players, 2 cornetto players, one organist and one percussion player. We are very happy to be able to announce that both Daniel Lassalle and Michel Becquet play sackbut in the ensemble and will attend our festival
The Gonzaga Band from England comes to our first part of the festival and will participate in our opening Festival Concert Wednesday evening. They come with 4 players.
Anneke Scott is arriving from England and is a horn artist.
Will Kimball from US comes to give lectures about the earlier history of brass
Festival concerts Bjergsted Brass Festival 2024
Here you will find an overview of all planned concerts during this year's inspiration week.
Festival Opening Concert
Wednesday 18. September, at 19:30 in St.Petri Church:
The Gonzaga Band, students and ensembles from the University of Stavanger.
Chamber Concert
Thursday 19. September, at 19.30 in Stavanger Dome Church:
Barocktrompeten Ensemble Berlin
Chamber Concert
Friday 20. September at 19.30 in St.Petri Church
Les Sacqueboutiers Ensemble and possible Festival Ensembles with Participants
Festival Concert
Saturday 21. September at 18.00 in St.Petri Church
Anneke Scott, naturhorn, Barocktrompeten Ensemble Berlin, Les Sacqueboutiers and different Festival Ensembles.
Festival Final Concert
Sunday 22. September at 15.00 in Eikenes Hall, Bjergsted
Anneke Scott, natural horn, Barocktrompeten Ensemble Berlin, Les Sacqueboutiers and different Festival Ensembles
Application
Application deadline is 20. August 2024
Application
Questions?
Any questions, feel free to contact PK Svensen, festival organizer at:
e mail: per.k.svensen@uis.no phone: + 47 47 88 60 66