Transcript Lysbilde 1

A small selection of the choir’s
activities in recent years…
In May 2011 Nittedal Bygdekor, enforced with 45 external
singers, a total of 150, performed Verdis ”Requiem”
both in Oslo and Drammen together with soloists and
Drammen Symphonic Orcestra,
.
In October 2009 Nittedal Bygdekor participated in a choral
competition in Italy at ”Riva del Garda” and got a silver
medallion.
In May 2009 Nittedal Bygdekor performed Gioacchino Rossini’s
”Stabat Mater” with soloists from the Norwegian Opera and
Hedmark Symphonic Orcestra with conserts both in Grønland
Church,Oslo and at Hamardomen, Hamar.
In 2005 Nittedal Bygdekor performed «Voluspaa» by the
Norwegian composer D. Monrad Johansen, in cooperation with
Wandsbeker Sinfonieorchester from Hamburg, Germany, with
one concert in the Great Hall of the University of Oslo and
two concerts in Hamburg.
In 2004 Nittedal Bygdekor came 3rd in the choral competition
“Sing For Us” in the Grieg Hall in Bergen.
In 2003 together with Oslo Symphony Orchestra and
professional soloists from the Norwegian Opera, Nittedal
Bygdekor performed Haydn’s «Die Schöpfung» («The
Creation») in Grønland Church, Oslo – with every seat taken.
Nittedal Bygdekor
From Oslo, Norway
will perform a
Scandinavian sacred
choir consert in
Sv. Kazimiero Church
Vilnius
Friday September 16, 2011
at 19.00 pm
Gjermund
Nittedal Bygdekor was founded in the
spring of 1945, coinciding with the end of
World War II. Through our 62 years of
existence, we have grown into a large
amateur choir with a high level of
activity, musical ambitions and good
recruitment. Today we number approx.
100 singers of both genders
Nittedal
Bygdekor have performed a
number of major classical works together
with
symphony
orchestras
and
professional soloists.
In
2000,
the
choir
was
awarded
Nittedal Municipal Council’s cultural prize
in recognition of its many years of
cultural contributions in and outside the
municipality, and its good qualitative and
quantitative development.
Gjermund
Bjørklund
has
been the conductor of
Nittedal Bygdekor since
1996. He is a graduate from
the Norwegian Academy of
Music, where he majored in
choral conducting under the
tuition of Grethe Helgerød
and Stefan Sköld.
Bjørklund has been permanently
employed as an organist in Skedsmo Church since
1985, and he teaches at the music section of
Lillestrøm high school
He also conducts the Academic Choral Society
(Oslo) and Skedsmo Chamber Choir. Bjørklund
has been the musical director of a number of
major choral productions at Romerike and in Oslo.
In January 2011 he conducted Johannes Brahms
“Ein Deutches Requiem” with a choir consisting of
singers from Nittedal and the rest of Romerike,
and with musicians and soloists from the
Norwegian Opera.