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Program / concert schedule - with cool pictures inbetween!

2010:
December 2010:
13: Grand annual Christmas concert: "Pøbeljul med POING" at Parkteateret, Oslo.
3: Grønland kammermusikkfestival (Ny Musikk), Oslo. WP by Sergej Newski and Ignas Krunglevicius.

November 2010:
28: Toril Carlsen (voc) with Oslo Sinfonietta and POING at The Norwegian Opera

October 2010:
tba.: Concerts in China (Shanghai, Beijing and more)
8.: Expo, Shanghai, China. POING Duo (Nystrøm/Haltli) featuring Kouame Sereba, Wind, Bian Liu Nian, Fang JinLong and Wu Fei.
2: Venice Biennale Music Festival 2010, Italy. POING Duo (Nystrøm/Haltli) play MIDI instruments!

September 2010:
18: POING and Oslo Sinfornietta at Warsaw Autumn, Poland. POING recompose Chopin!

July 2010:
29-30: POING at Stangvikfestivalen Music by Mahler, Maja Ratkje, Badelamenti, "Wach auf" program with Maja Ratkje, "Detektime" night etc.

April 2010:
30 :Rød natt til 1. mai. With special guest Maja S.K. Ratkje (voc). Annual concert with revolutionary program for the seventh time! Usually performed at Vertshuset Tranen, Oslo, but this time a a part of Soddjazz, Inderøy.

February 2010:
5-7 : Ilios Festival, Harstad. Concert with POING and Kouame Sereba and more.

2009:
December 2009:
13: Grand annual Christmas concert: "Pøbeljul med POING", Parkteatret, Oslo.
With guests: POING barnekor, Jente-POING (Guro von Germeten, Guro Moe, Gudrun Faleide Fristad), POING String Quartet (Atle Sponberg, Catharina Chen, Povilas Syrrist-Gelgota, Torill Syrrist), Lars Henrik Johansen, Kouame Sereba, Maja Ratkje, Jolo El Grantre, Guri Glans, Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen, Jon Øystein Flink, Sunniva Rødland, Simone Larsen, Ole Paus, Ivar Tormodsæther, Kitty Lossius, Ana Emilia Tavares, Marianne Skjeldal, Stig Gunnar Ringen, Arman Steinsholm

October 2009:
16: POING at The Villa, Oslo. Coda - Oslo International Dance Festival. With Pernille Bønkan and Sissel Bjørkli, Trulz og Robin, Kate Pendry.

September 2009:
17: Ultima Festival, Oslo. Venue: Litteraturhuset
Program: New works by Herman Vogt (N), Aki Asgeirson(ICE), Ignas Krunglevicius (LI/N), Zakarias Øverli (N) and Bendik Hagerup (N). New video by Bodil Furu: 'POING on POING'. Guests: Jon Øystein Flink (author/voc/gt) and Ragnar Hovland (author/voc/ukulele)

August 2009:
10: POING and the Norwegian Wind Orchestra (cond. Christian Eggen) perform Eivind Buene's "Into the Void" at The 2nd International Realtime Music Symposium. Venue: Norges musikkhøskole, Oslo.

June 2009:
28: POING 10 YEARS! Big one-day festival at Ingierstrand bad just outside Oslo, where it all started 10 years ago...


Guests: Misha Alperin (claviola), Wenche Losnegård (voc) with Jørn Øien (key) and Mattis Myrland (voc), Marius Hesby performs Berio and Sørensen solo trombone works, Fernanda Branco (dance), Benedicte Maurseth (hardanger fiddle/voc), Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (piano) performs Brahms with POING, Vegar Vårdal (fiddle), Unni Løvlid (voc), Anne-Lise Frøkedal (voc/guitar), Kari Svendsen (banjo/voc), Bergen mandolinband, Trygve Seim (sax), Lars Andreas Haug (tuba), Camilla S. Haug (voc), Cosmic Wind Band, the poet and singer Nasibu Mwanukuzi with POING, also with his band Ras Nas, Per Zanussi (musical saw), Kjetil Gutvik (guitar), Ole Henrik Moe jr, Becaye Aw (guitar/voc), Torbjørn Morstad (DJ), Julian Skar - new work for children with POING, Pernille Bønkan and Sissel Bjørkli (dancers), Atle Sponberg (violin), Live Maria Roggen (voc) and Mats Eilertsen (double bass), Njål Ølnes (sax), Koauame Sereba (voc)


May 2009:
20: Official opening of the Bergen International Festival. Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen. See videoclip
19: Opening of the Brücke exhibition at Bergen Art Museum. The exhibition is a part of the Bergen International Festival.
7: Revolutionary music by Weill, Eisler and more with Bergen møljekor as guests. Promo for Bergen International Festival. Venue: Logen teater, Bergen

April 2009:
30: Rød natt til 1. mai. Annual concert with revolutionary program at Tranen, Oslo. With special guest Maja S.K. Ratkje (voc). Special special guests: Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen (poet), Torgny Amdam (voc), WIND (voc) and Jørn Simen Øverli (voc/gt) Venue: Tranen, Alexander Kiellands plass, Oslo

March 2009:
20: Concertgebouw Brugge, Belgium: POING featuring Maja Ratkje "Wach auf!" The accordeon, sax, bass and modern-day Lotte Lenya effortlessly lead us back to a Berlin café in the 1930s. Indeed, this time POING also aims to be more than just like the radicals, to make topical political elements of the revolutionary collaboration between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. The repertoire of Brecht and Weill is supplemented with thematically connected music by Hans Eisler, Einstürzende Neubauten and Bob Dylan.

January 2009:
18: Norges musikkhgskole, Oslo. Doctorate concert for Håkon Thelin. Program: Giants of Jazz, Øyvind Torvund (2001), Fareflat, Hiroyuki Yamamoto (2003), Scherzo Hiroyuki Yamamoto (2005), Rondo-Bastard-Overture-Explosion, Maja Ratkje (2004)

2008:

November 2008:
28: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK. World premiére for POING and The Norwegian Wind Ensemble by Eivind Buene. Conductor Christian Eggen, percussion Samuel Rohrer.

September 2008:
23-25: Kristiansund kirke- kunst- kulturfestival. World premiére for POING and string quartet by Jan Erik Mikaelsen as well as music by Ratkje, Pärt, Norwegian traditional and baroque music.

August 2008:
2-9: Nordland Musikkfestuke, Bodø. POING performs at the club Sinus with Maja Ratkje, with Bodø Sinfornietta and more.

April 2008
30: Rød natt til 1. mai. Annual concert with revolutionary program at Tranen, Oslo. With special guest Maja S.K. Ratkje (voc). Venue: Tranen, Alexander Kiellands plass, Oslo
21: Royal Caribbean Arts Grant. POING performs Maja Ratkjes "essential extensions" and an Arabic version of Edvard Greig's "Anitra's Dance" omboard the worlds biggests cruise ship Independence of the Seas, Oslo harbour.
17-19: POING performs two concerts at the Tampere Biennale, Finland. On the concert the 17th with Becaye Aw (guitar and vocals), Pekka Kuustiso (violin) and Hanna Tuomela (vocals), and the 19 with POING performing works by Jimmy Lopez (World premiére), Ere Lievonen, Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje and Atli Ingolfsson

2007:

December 2007
13: Annual X-mas concert at Parkteateret, Oslo. Guests: POING Childrens Choir, Ingun Aadland, Live Roggen Jan Vardøen, Simone Larsen, Nasibu Mwanukuzi, Kouame Sereba, Becaye Aw, Thora Dolven Balke and Ingvild, Maja SK Ratkje, Lars Lillo Stenberg, Lars Beckstrøm, Jono el Grande, Hallgrim Hansegård, Trond Reinholdsen, Unni Løvlid, Bergen mandolinband with Anne Lise and Helga, Kjersti Beate Vindal, Risto Holopainen, Ivar Thormodssæter, Mona Hansen, Jørn-Simen Øverli, POING Strings (Audun Sandvik, Isa Caroline Holmesland, Gunnhild Nordahl, Christina Dimbodius), Kong Sverre, and on video with POING: Maria Solheim, Roald Øyen, Ivar Froundberg and Juni Dahr (with POING all of them, of course). Winner of the POING prize 2007: Ignas Krunglevicious
Se glimrende forhåndsomtale i AftenAften!

November 2007
23: World premiére of a new piece by Helmut Oehring: 'Sur POING' in Oslo konserthus, Lille sal, Oslo!

21: POING play solo pieces for accordion, saxophone and double bass by Helmut Oehring at Parkteateret, Oslo

October 2007
28: POING in Riga, Latvia. Music by Maja S.K. Ratkje, Jexper Holmen, Sachiyo Tsurumi, Steingrimur Rohloff, Lars Petter Hagen, improvisations
13: POING with Oslo Sinfonietta and Maja Ratkje at Ultima Festival, Oslo
12: Plex, Københvan Musikteater, Copenhagen (Denmark). World premiére of new pieces by Steingrimur Rohloff and Hans Abrahamsen, other works by Rolf Wallin, Iannis Xenakis and Jexper Holmen.

August 2007
18: POING at Oslo Chamber Music Festival. With guests Maja Ratkje and Rolf Lislevand. Venue: Holocaust Center, Oslo

July 2007
6: POING, Oslo Sinfonietta and Maja S.K. Ratkje. Portrait concert of Maja S.K. Ratkje at Kongsberg Jazzfestival, venue Kongsberg kino

April 2007
30: Rød natt til 1. mai. Annual concert with revolutionary program at Tranen. With special guests Maja S.K. Ratkje (voc) and Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen (poet). Concert starts 21:00, NOK 100,-, venue: Tranen, Alexander Kiellands plass, Oslo



14: Happy Days, Oslo City - closing concert of the festival at 17:30 in front of the main entrance. Works by Jono El Grande, Sachiyo Tsurumi and Nora Wjech

14: Klassekampen 30 år, POING and Maja S.K. Ratkje at Fabrikken, Oslo

March 2007
10-13: Open Form, Oslo

February 2007
11: Vinterlysfestivalen, Mo: Innhentet, a theatre piece by Marit Solbu with POING as acting musicians.

January 2007
19: Premiére of the Norwegian movie Andre Omgang with music by Lars Lillo Stenberg with POING

2006:

December 2006
21: Pøbeljul med POING, Parkteateret
POING's annual X-mas concert at Parkteateret, Oslo. This year's all-star team includes a string quartet (Sigyn Fossnes, Elisabeth Lie, Ada Meinich and Kristine Martens), Kjersti Beate Vindal on the harp, Grünerløkka celebrity Jan Vardøen, pop singer Simone Larsen, rock singer Kjetil Laumann, actor Guri Glans will be the spanked nun, singer Maja Ratkje, our favourite Norwegian-Mauretanian-Senegalese singer Becaye Aw with his daughter Leni, Chinese singer/song-writer Xiaogan, the world fastest guitar player Marcus Paus, banjo heroess and folk singer Kari Svendsen, Norwegian/Indian violinist Harpreet Bansal, Laffen (mandolin, fiddle) and Ingemund (banjo, harmonica) and Gaute (guitar, vocals) and Anne Lise and Helga (background vocals) - all from BMB, Jolo el Grantre aka. Jono el Grande, Kong Sverre (synth, vocals), professor in compostition at the Norwegian State Academy of Music Ivar Frounberg, super drummers Paal Nilsen-Love and Andreas Bye, modernistic laus dancer Halgrim Hansegård, tango dancers Ingun and, the vocal quintet Pitsj.
...and the winner of the POING Prize 2006 is: Jon Halvor Bjørnseth

December 9-17: POING TOUR THE US!
17: Washington D.C.: Maja Ratkje and POING at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. as a part of Norwegian Christmas. Concert starts at 2 pm, admission free, no tickets. Info: (202) 783-5000.
15: New York City: Tonic, 107 Norfolk St @ Delancey, NYC. POING with special guests Yumiko Tanaka (JP), Else Olsen S. and Maja Ratkje (NO)!! . Concert starts 11:59 pm. Info: (212) 358-7504.
14: Brooklyn: Issue Project Room, 400 Carroll Street, (b/w Bond and Nevins), Brooklyn. Concert starts 8 pm. Info: (718) 330-0313(Maja Ratkje also gives individual performances at the Kitchen, NYC December 14 and 15)
12: Chicago: The University of Chicago, Bond Chapel, 1025 East 58 Street. Maja Ratkje and POING will perform as a part of The Renaissance Society series. Concert starts at 8 pm, admission free!
11: Milwaukee: Maja Ratkje and POING at the Hotcakes Gallery, 3379 N. Pierce St. (5 blocks north of Locust and 3 blocks west of Humboldt) in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood. Concert starts at 7 pm • $7
9: San Francisco: Other Minds Festival
Music by Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje performed by POING and Maja S.K. Ratkje.
Venue: Kanbar Hall, San Francisco Jewish Community Center, 3200 California Street
(Frode Haltli will also do individual performances at the festival.)

Listen to POING at the Other Minds radio KALW 91.7 FM

November 2006
24: Trondheim, Venue: Dokkhuset, Nedre Elvehavn
Michael Finnissy (UK): Deja fait (2006)
(Sepevi/1976, Stomp/1981, Runnin’ wild/1978)
Atli Ingólfsson (IS): Composition (2006)
(Radioflakes/2004, Cono di fede/2004, Brain Trill/2006)

23: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK)
Michael Finnissy (UK): Deja fait (2006)
(Sepevi/1976, Stomp/1981, Runnin’ wild/1978)
Atli Ingólfsson (IS): Composition (2006)
(Radioflakes/2004, Cono di fede/2004, Brain Trill/2006)

2: Bodø: "Classical concert" with POING, the MiN Ensemble and cellist Hans Urban Andersson. Works by Mozart, Shostakovitch and Mahler!

October 2006
POING tours the coolest Nordic countries:

26: Nuuk (Greenland) Blues & Jazz Festival Katuaq Program: Astor Piazzolla: Primavera portena, Maja S.K. Ratkje: No Title Tango and Milonga, Lars P. Hagen: Kronologi, Nora Wjech: Lumière, espace et vertes, Sachiyo Tsurumi: Sushia 009, trad: Autumn Moon Over the Placid Lake, trad: Thrill is Gone, Trad/arr. F. Haltli: Höök-Olles storpolska, trad/arr. POING: Halling
21: Tórshavn (Faroe Islands) Venue: Manhattan. With Sigrid Rasmussen and Terji Rasmussen
21: Tórshavn (Faroe Islands) Workshop at the Music School
20: Gøta (Faroe Islands) Venue: Gøta kirke. Program: Lars P. Hagen: Kronologi, trad/arr. F. Haltli: Ned i vester, trad/arr. POING: Halling, trad/arr. F. Haltli: Jag haver ingen kärare, POING: Fisk i kjerka, Ignas Krunglevicius: Movie/Entry Level No 4, trad: Autumn Moon Over the Placid Lake, Astor Piazzolla: Primavera portena
19: Tórshavn (Faroe Islands) Venue: Miðlahúsið. Program: Astor Piazzolla: Primavera portena, trad/arr. F. Haltli: Ned i vester, trad/arr. POING: Halling, Nora Wjech: Lumière, espace et vertes, Lars P. Hagen: Kronologi, Terry Riley: Tread on the Trail, trad: Autumn Moon Over the Placid Lake, Ignas Krunglevicius: Movie/Entry Level No 4, Maja S.K. Ratkje: No Title Tango and Milonga, Kurt Weill: Surabaya Johnny
17: Reykjavik (Iceland) Venue:Cafe Cultura. With POING featuring Maja Ratkje, the Aton ensemble and Flís
16: Reykjavik (Iceland) Workshop at S.L.A.T.U.R., Hverfisgata 32
15: Vestmannaeyjar (Iceland). With the Icelandic group Sæborg
14: Reykjavik (Iceland). Nordic Music Days, closing concert of the festival at Salurinn.
Wallin, Rolf (N): Phonotope II (w/electronics) (2003)
Atli Ingólfsson (IS): Composition (2006) (including Radioflakes/2004, Cono di fede/2004, Brain Trill/2006)
13: Reykjavik (Iceland). Nordic Music Days. Venue: Idno. POING solo!
Maja S.K. Ratkje (NO): On Wombs and Vowels for solo double bass (2003) 4'
Michael Finnissy (UK): Stomp for solo accordion (1980) 9'
Michael Finnissy (UK): Runnin’ Wild for solo alto saxophone (1978) 7'
Michael Finnissy (UK): Sepevi for solo double bass (1976) 8'
David Bratlie (NO): Embracing Outburst for solo alto saxophone (2003) 7'
Niels Rosing-Schow (DK): Spiral Ladder, etude for accordion (1997) 8'
Lars Petter Hagen (NO): Kronologi for POING (2003) 5'
13: POING at Channel 1 (radio), Iceland

10:Concert at the Ultima Festival, Oslo. Venue: Parkteateret.
Michael Finnissy (UK): Deja fait (2006) wp
(Sepevi/1976, Stomp/1981, Runnin’ wild/1978)
Atli Ingólfsson (IS): Composition (2006) wp
(Radioflakes/2004, Cono di fede/2004, Brain Trill/2006 wp)

July 2006
6: Concert at Energimølla, Kongsberg, 15.00. Featuring Dror Feiler. Works by Dror Feiler (wp) Øyvind Torvund, Jexper Holmen and improvisation with Dror Feiler (sax)

5: Musikk i brennpunktet, NRK P2 (Norwegian radio). Portrait program on POING, music by Tsurumi, Ratkje, Buene and Hagen.

June 2006
15: Concert at Kirkefestspillene, Kristiansand. Featuring Maja Ratkje (vocals). Program: Sachiyo Tsurumi: Sushia 009, Terry Riley: Tread on the Trail, trad: Autumn Moon Over the Placid Lake, Lars P. Hagen: Kronologi, songs by Weill/Brecht, Eisler/Brecht and Einstürtzende Neubauten

1: 'bidrobon sessions 1', Biermannsgården, Oslo. Music by Torvund, impro

April 2006
30: POING and Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje "Red night" at Tranen, Oslo, 20.00. Programme: Kurt Weill and old revolution songs. Annual happening, lots of surprises!

March 2006
20-23: Workshop in Berlin with Helmut Oehring

February 2006
8: Ultron series at Blå, Oslo. Music by Lars Petter Hagen

2-5: Ilios Festival, Harstad. POING as festival musicians. Program:

2: Festival opening at Galleri NordNorge, 18.00 Music by Hiroyuki Yamamoto
'From Japanese minimalism to Frank Zappa' at Harstad kulturhus 19.30 (Frode Haltli),
3: Lunch Concert at Harstad Kulturhus, 11.30 (Håkon Thelin)
Meet the artist: POING at Kafe de 4 roser, 18.00
Pub concert with POING, Clara Sanabras and Marianne Beate Kielland at Kafe de 4 roser, 21.00. WP "Eva’s Horse Dance" by Jono El Grande.
4: Gallery Concert at Galleri NordNorge 12.30 (Rolf-Erik Nystrøm)
5: Sunday walkaway, starts at Rimi på Sanda 12.00.

 

2005:

December 14: opening of KIK, at kulturnett.no (Solli plass), 14.00. Works by Sachiyo Tsurumi and Maja S. K. Ratkje

December 12: Oslo. Annual X-mas concert, Parkteateret Oslo 21.00. Guest artists Kouame og Magnus Sereba, Becaye Aw, Jarle Bernhoft, Unni Løvlid, Per Zanussi, Kjetil Møster, Fe-mail, Laffen og Ingemund fra BMB, Camilla Haug, Lars Andreas Haug, Lara Stinnerbom, Tord Riser, string quartet, Jørn Simen Øverli, Liva, Lise Herland, Rolf Wallin, Øyvind Torvund, Maja Ratkje, Trond Reinholdtsen, Paul Kirby, TieQiao Li, Kjersti Beate Vindal, Harpreet Bansal and more!
Release of new album, Planet poing! www.parkteatret.no

December 8: Opening of Parkteateret. Works by Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje with the poet Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen.

November 25-26: Crush-festival, Århus, Denmark. WP by Simon Steen-Andersen. Also works by Tsurumi, Ratkje, Holmen, Hagen and Riley

November 23: Festaften for norsk forskning, Oslo Concert Hall, 18.00. Works by Lars Petter Hagen and Sachiyo Tsurumi. Improvisations with Kåre Konradi, Misha Alperin.

November 1: Oslo World Music Festival: Nachspiel on Fabrikken, Oslo. With Becaye Aw, Kouame Sereba, Lara Stinnerbom and singers from the Dong-province, China.

October 7: Concert at the Ultima Festival. Venue: Parkteateret, Oslo. Works by Tsurumi, Ikeda, Yamamoto (WP), Japanese pop and traditional music. Screening of 'Sextet', a film by Yoshihiro Ito with music by the composers group Chronoi Protoi. Guest appearences by Yumiko Tanaka, Margrethe Førre, Tord Riser, Sachiyo Tsurumi and Hiroyuki Yamamoto.

October 6: Film fra sør, Vika kino, Oslo. POING is playing 'Sushia 009' by Sachiyo Tsurumi at the opening of the festival.

October 4: Ultima Festival. Venue: Parkteateret, Oslo. Portrait of Sachiyo Tsurumi. Concert with Yumiko Tanaka, musicians from Cikada ensemble and The Norwegian Soloist’s Choir a.o. Produced by Rolf-Erik Nystrøm

September 15: Concert at New Nordic Music festival, St. Petersburg, Russia. Program: Karsten Fundal (DK) Together apart/apart together, Maja S K Ratkje (NO) Rondo - Bastard - Overture - Explosion, Sachiyo Tsurumi (JP) Sushiya 009, Áki Ásgeirsson (IS) 435271, Nora Wjeck (PL) Lumière, espace et vertes, Lars Petter Hagen (NO) Kronologi. Venue: PRO ARTE Institute

July 7: Time of Music, Viitasaari, Finland. Works by Ratkje, Lievonen, Tsurumi, Hagen and Thelin (solo).

July 8-11: Time of Music, Viitasaari, Finland. POING participates in chamber works and play solo pieces by Ingolfsson and Lindborg

June 21: Aksept, Rodeløkka, Oslo. With Unni Løvlid and Eskil Rønningsbakken. Garden party

April 21-May 7: POING in China!
April 22-25: Kunming: Nordic Music Week. With Maria Solheim the 23rd and with Chinese musicians the 25th
April 28:  Hong Kong: Concert with The Chinese Music Virtuosi at Hong Kong University. New work by CHAN Hing-Yan for POING and traditional Chinese instruments and more.
April 30: Guangzhou
May 1-3: Shanghai
May 5-7: Beijing
Works by Ratkje, Hagen, Wjeck, Asgeirsson, Piazolla, Weill, Tsurumi and improvisation on Norwegian and Chinese traditional music. POING will also premiere a new piece by Hing Yan Chan.

March 18: Borealis Festival, Bergen. Venue: Logen. Works by Riley (Tread on the Trail 1965/2005), Tsurumi, Asgeirsson and Lievonen.

February 14-19: Saxofonia Festival, Riga, Latvia. Opening concert in the Wagner Hall (15), Cecis conference hall (16), Wagner Hall (17), "White Piano", Sigulda (18) and Limbazi Cultural House (19). Works by Ratkje, Asgeirsson, Tsurumi, Piazzolla, Krunglevicious, trad music, improvisations and more

2004:

December 22 2004
Annual POING X-mas party in Oslo at Fabrikken, Nedregt. 7.
20:00 pm, CC 100,-. Lots of surprises, special guests, party!!!

Nov/Des 2004
Tour in Austria with Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje:
Graz: Nov 29, 20:00 pm at Stockwerk Graz
Dornbirn: Des. 1, 20.30 pm at Musikschule im Kehlerpark
Vienna: Des. 3, 20:00 pm at Konzerthaus Wien, Neuer saal

November 25 2004
Concert at "Designdagen", Hotel Bristol in Oslo. Including POING video to music by Nora Wjeck

November 22 2004
Concert at Nordic Music Days, Copenhagen. Venue: Borups Høyskole at 22:30 pm. Works by Ratkje, Fundahl and Lievonen + improvisations and Weill/Brecht songs with Maja Ratkje

November 20 2004
Concert at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Venue: St. Patricks Hall at 22 pm. Works by Ratkje, Wallin, Fundahl (WP) + improvisations.

November 15 2004
Concert at BLÅ, Edvard prize ceremony. Music by Maja Ratkje.

October 20 2004
Concert with guest vocalists Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Unni Løvlid and Jørn Simen Øverli at Josefine Vertshus, Oslo
Josefine

August 11-13 2004
Estonian tour:
Tallinn, Aug 11
Tartu, Aug 12
Pärnu, Aug 13 (World premiére written for POING and the New Tallinn Trio by Tõnu Kõrvits in Pärnu at "Glasperlenspiel")

May 3-31 2004
Artists in residence at the Nordica centre in Kunming, Yunnan province, China.
Concerts in Nordica, Kunming: May 8+15+28
Concert in Beijing at "The Loft" as a part of "An Ear to the Ground" concert series: May 27

April 30 2004
WACH AUF!
POING and Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje "Red night" at Tranen, Oslo, 8pm. Programme: Kurt Weill and old revolution songs. WP: "Ode til en lavstatus Elitestreber" by Åge Ballangen. Annual happening, lots of surprises!

March 18 2004
Concert at Voksen church, Oslo. Results from the workshop "La Verkstedet Vokse" by Jon Halvor Bjørnseth / Drivhuset

March 11 2004
Concert in Paris at the in.fini04 Festival, Finska Institutet. French and Nordic composers.
Curator: PerMagnus Linborg

January 2004
POING tour in Sweden:
Kramfors (SE) 20
Sandviken (SE) 21
Hofors (SE) 22
Stockholm (SE) 23
Uppsala (SE) 26
Produced by Rikskonserter Sweden. Music by PerMagnus Lindborg (WP) Tsurumi, Weill, Ratkje and traditional music

 2003:

December:
Parkteateret scene, Oslo (17. 12.) POING Christmas show, featuring Unni Løvlid, Simone Larsen, Jan Vardøen, Knut Aalefjær, Andreas Krogness, Koame Sereba, strykekvartett a.o.

November:
Nybrokajen, Stockholm (18.11.) Music by Joakim Sandgren (WP), Hirojuki Yamamoto, Iannis Xenakis (solos, duo) and more. Broadcasted 2.12. on Swedish radio.

October:
Ultima, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Bærum (2. -6..10.) World premiere and 3 performances of 'No Title Performance and Sparkling Water' an opera by Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje and Siv Merete Mikaelsen

Klangspuren Festival, Graz (Austria) (12. 9.) Works: Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje: essential extensions · Jexper Holmen: tension II:Dissembarrass · Volker Heyn:Myth Maker #1 (world premiere) · Rolf Wallin:Phonotope 2 ·(world premiere)

Stenersenmusset, Oslo (4. 9) Susanne Låker vernissage, msuic by Kurt Weill

September: UNM (Young Nordic Music) Festival in Oslo (1. 9), release of the CD ”Giants of Jazz”

June: Munich (GER), Tollwodd festival, anti nuclear!  POING with Maja Ratkje. Guest appearence with Arlo Guthrie, the Dubliners a.o.

Mai: Japan tour 11. – 27. may (Japanese and Norwegian music):
15. may: Tiara-Kohtoh, Tokyo
17. may: Museum Tokyo
18. may: Bunka Forum, Kasugai, Nagoya
19. may: Consert and lecture, Kasugai, Nagoya
23. may: Asahi Breweries, headquarters building
26. may: Private concert/party, Asagaya Gallery SOUKO
POING also recorded for the soundtrack of 'Sextet', a film by Yoshihiro Ito. They are also featured in the film.

1. may: Blå (OSLO): Rød på Blå, Kurt Weill program w/ Maja Ratkje.

January – april: Prøver bestillingsverk japanske komponister og pratisk planlegging av Japanture.

 2002:

December: Christmas tour produced by Ny Musikk. Concerts in Oslo, Tromsø, Sortland and Hamar with jazz vocalist Solveig Slettahjell.  Music by Helge Sunde (WP), Jon Balke (WP), Øyvind Torvund/Jon Øystein Flink (WP) a.o.

November: Tränenpalast (Berlin, GER): Magma Festival. Music by Jexper Holmen, Aki Asgeirsson, Øyvind Torvund, Maja Ratkje and Kurt Weill.

October: Ultimafestivalen, Oslo. Consert at Parkteateret with world premiérs by Aki Asgeirsson (Iceland), Jexper Holmen (Denmark), Seung Ah-Oh (South Korea), Raymon Berge and Bendik Hagerup (Norway).
 
Henie Onstad kunstsenter (21. 10), in the Fritt Fall concert series: POING premiére their own concept ”Apetite for Destruction”, an improvised perfomance where the instruments are being de-constructed with music from POING's youth.

Avantgarden, Trondheim (30.10). Portrait concert of the composer Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje.

September: UNM (Young Nordic Music) Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland. Music by Øyvind Torvund.

July: Opera workshop, Oslo (3.-7.6.) Workshop on 'No Title Performance and Sparkling Water', WP Ultima 2003

June: NMH, Oslo (2.6.) Music by David Bratlie

May: 1. mai-turné, Oslo (1.5.) POING og Maja S. K. Ratkje (sang) fremførte sanger av Weill/Brecht m.m. på Valkyrien kafé, Tranen,  Lompa og Pigalle. Egen POING-buss som ble fullsatt av alle typer mennesker som ville følge POING på denne én-dagsturnéen til tradisjonsrike Oslo-puber. Arr.: Ny Musikk Oslo (Labour Day tour in Oslo!)

Smuget, Oslo (20.5.) Same repertoar as May 1st and works for solo double bass.

April: Kunstnernes hus, Oslo (28.4.) Würtz’ barnedag på Kunstnernes hus. Div. verker.

Mars: Toneverksted på Toneheim, Ridabu (9., 10. og 13.3.) Seminar og konsert med POING, Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Jon Halvor Bjørnset og studenter ved Toneheim folkehøgskole. Verker av Ratkje, Weill og improvisasjoner/egne komposisjoner.

Februar: ”Upbeat”  tour produced by the Swedish Rikskonserter . Music by Sverre Indris Joner (WP), Ratkje, Wjeck/Hagen, Weill and traditional music arranged by POING.
12: Sandnes (NO)
13: Rena (NO)
15: Stockholm (SWE)
16: Skinnskatteberg (SWE)
18: Pärnu (EST)
19: Tallinn (EST) The entire concert was broadcasted on Estonian TV and radio
20: Talsi (LAT)
21: Riga (LAT) The concert was broadcasted on Latvian radio
22: Birzai (LI)
23: Vilnius (LI)

January: Toneheim, Ridabu (18-20) Seminar. Samarbeid med Drivhuset/Jon-Halvor Bjørnseth.

2001:

December: Christmas tour produced by Ny Musikk. Works by Jon Øivind Ness (WP), Magne Hegdal (WP) and more. With jazz vocalist Solveig Slettahjell:
Blå, Oslo (7.12)
Studenthuset, Hamar (12.12)
Komponistforeningens julebord, Oslo (15.12.) Utdrag fra repertoar fra Blå 7.12.

November: NMH, Oslo (19.11) Music by Øvind Torvund.

October: GAS-festivalen, Göteborg (SWE) (13.10) Music by Ratkje, Nordin, Bratlie, Sunde, Schaathun (acc. solo). Recorded by Swedish broadcasting

September: Gaudeamus-festivalen, Amsterdam (NL) (6-7.9) Two concerts. Works by Sunde, Ratkje, Hagerup, Torvund, Nordin, improvisation, Bent Sørensen (acc. solo). The concert was broadcasted on Dutch radio.

Opera workshop, Oslo (3.-7.6.) Workshop on 'No Title Performance and Sparkling Water', WP Ultima 2003

UNM (Young Nordic Music) Festival in Århus (26.9) works by Bratlie, Sunde, Sørensen (acc. solo). The concert was broadcasted at the Danish Radio.

June: NMH, Oslo (7.6) Music by Weill. With Margrethe Førre (voc)

May: Gamle Logen, Oslo (24.5) Private occasion.Music by Holmboe (WP)

Festspillene i Bergen (Bergen Festival) (30.5) venue: Troldsalen. Music by Bratlie, Ratkje, Weill, Jacob Druckman (bass solo), Rolf-Erik Nystrøm (WP, sax solo). Featuring Maja Ratkje. Concert with interview in 'Musikk i Brennpunktet', NRK - Norwegian radio.

March: Malaga, Spain (17.3) Torbjørn Morstad vernissage. Music by Marcus Paus. With Ole Bøhn, violin

Jazzmezze, Trondheim (22.3) Music by Weill, Ratkje/Haltli, Nystrøm. With Maja Ratkje

February: Ilios Festival, Harstad (1.2) Music by Buene, Torvund, Ratkje, Hagen, Nordin (WP), Hagerup, Weill

WOK, NRK P2 (27.2) Weill

Josefine, Oslo (28.2) Weill, Ratkje/Haltli, Nystrøm

January: Hamar (13.1) Recording of theatre music by Gunnleik Groven

2000:

Desember:
Sortland (11.12) Verker av Ratkje, Bratlie, Torvund, improvisasjoner med TRI DIM (David Stackenäs, Håkon Kornstad, Ingar Zach)

Hamar (19-20.12) Innspilling av teatermusikk av Gunnleik Groven til forestillingen ”Blod” produsert av Hedmark Teater.

Oktober:
Ultima, Oslo (10.10) Verker av Buene (u), Torvund (u), Hagen (u), Hagerup (u), Holopainen, Badalamenti, Bratlie (u)

September:
Det Kongelige Danske Musikkkonservatoriums koncertsal, København (29.9) Verk av Ratkje

August:
Ung Nordisk Musikk, Helsinki
15.8: Verk av Ratkje
17.8: Sauna Bar. Verker av Holopainen (u), Torvund, Weill. Med Maja Ratkje, sang
17.8: Sibeliusakademiet. Seminar, utdrag fra Ratkje og Sunde

Juli :
Oslo (17.7) Verker av Kurt Weill og improvisasjon. Med Maja Ratkje, sang

Mai:
NMH, Oslo (30.5) Verker av Ratkje

NMH, Oslo (19.5) Verker av Sunde og Tysland

Februar:
NMH, Oslo (18.2) Verker av Sunde og Flø

BlåLyd, Blå, Oslo (16.2) Verker av Sunde (u), Flø (u), Ratkje, Metallica, improvisasjon med TRI DIM
Midt i Musikken, NRK (16.2) Utdrag fra Sunde og Flø

Snøhetta, Oslo (12.2) Verker av Ratkje, Paus og improvisasjon

 

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