Welcome with honour (folk tune)
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor)
Béla Bartók: Contrasts
Rosendal Chamber Music Festival 2024
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer
Biography
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer is a distinctive voice artist, multi-vocalist, and composer who explores her instrument to create music through vocal timbres with different ranges of expression and color. Her music free of genres is filtered through several genres and stylistic expressions that range from classical vocal tradition, selected ethnic traditions including throat singing, Norwegian folk music, multiphonics, and pure noise music. Her voice range is from 32 Hz to 2800 Hz, almost 7 octaves. This expression makes her popular for concerts, stage productions, film music, sound installations, and recordings all over the world.
With her multi-expressive vocal expression, she creates sound worlds from the realistic to the unrealistic, the expected and the unexpected, and the sound becomes the narrator.
She collaborates worldwide with instrumentalists and singers from various genres and cultures. She is the vocal soloist in the World Orchestra/Warsaw under the direction of Grzech Piotrowski and other main collaborators are jazz pianist Helge Lien and organist/composer Nils Henrik Asheim.
The opera “Camille Claudel – An Inner Opera” was written especially for her voice by the composer Steffen Schorn. The opera had its premiere on Bayrischer Rundfunk in November 2022 and will be released 2024.
Her newest recording: One Voices (Simax), will have its international release March 8th2024. The music on this production is made by one single unprocessed multiple voice and contains several orchestrated vocal landscapes, pushing the limits of what one voice can express.
- In 2023: world premiere of “Lokeslottet,”- “The Loki Castle” commissioned work for the Norwegian Soloist Choir which premiered in the University’s Aula February.
- In 2020, she received the State’s 10-year senior grant for artists and also became a member of NOPA.
- In recent years, she has also composed music for musicians/ensembles, such as the commissioned work for the Telemark Folk music Festival’s 30th anniversary 2019: “Haugebonden. A work for Hardangerfidles, voices, accordion and voice soloist.
- In 2019 she was awarded the Edvard (Grieg) prize fromhttps://www.tono.no TONO for the music on the CD and the concert concept KLANGBIOTOPER and she became a member of the Norwegian Composers Association.
- In 2014-2016, she received the State’s 3-year artist grant and has previously received various grants.
She received her education from the Mozarteum, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Salzburg in 1992, as well as a cand philol. from the Grieg Academy in 1994.
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer has a long career as a voice teacher/coach and conductor and is a sought-after seminar holder all over the world. She works as a university lecturer at the Norwegian Theater Academy and teaches at the academy for folk music: Ole Bull Academy.
Festival Performances Year 2024
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer: Slåttesångar
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer (voice), Alexander Aga Røynstrand (hardanger fiddle)
Béla Bartók: Duos
Florian Donderer, Adrien Jurkovic, Thomas Descamps (violins)
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer: Slåttesångar
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer (voice), Alexander Aga Røynstrand (hardanger fiddle)
Béla Bartók: Duos
Florian Donderer, Adrien Jurkovic, Thomas Descamps (violins)
György Ligeti: Continuum
Masato Suzuki (harpsichord)
György Ligeti: Hungarian Rock
Masato Suzuki (harpsichord)
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer: Solo for Voice
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer (voice)
Edvard Grieg/Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer: In The Hall of the Mountain King
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer (voice), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Ernő Dohnányi: Sextet in C major, Op. 37
Florian Donderer (violin), Raphaël Pagnon (viola), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Nikita Khnykin (piano), Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet), Ragnhild Lothe (horn)
György Kurtág: From Játékok: Aus der Ferne
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Jon Fosse: Er det ei meining over desse tinga. Utdrag.
Arnhild Litleré
J. S. Bach/Kurtág: Chorale Prelude: Aus tiefer not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 687
Zlata Chochieva (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Refaat Alareer: Om eg må døy
Arnhild Litleré
J. S. Bach: From Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Sarabande
Florian Donderer (violin)
Paul Celan/Olav H. Hauge: Dødsfuge
Arnhild Litleré
László Weiner: Adagio from Serenade for String Trio
Florian Donderer (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello)
Åse Marie Næsse: Men du syng
Arnhild Litleré
J. S. Bach/Bartók: Lento from Trio sonata in G major, BWV 530
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
J. S. Bach/Rachmaninov: Prelude from Partita for Solo Violin in E Major BWV 1006
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn: Fred
Arnhild Litleré
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer: Trinity
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer (voice), Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor)
INTERVAL
Arnljot Eidslott: Stabat Mater
Arnhild Litleré
Franz Liszt: Via Crucis, S.53
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Einleitung. Vexilla Regis ("O Crux, Ave!")
- Station I. Jesus wird zum Tode verdammt
- Station II. Jesus trägt sein Kreuz
- Station III. Jesus fällt zum ersten Mal
- Station IV. Jesus begegnet seiner heiligen Mutter
- Station V. Simon von Kyrene hilft Jesus das Kreuz tragen
- Station VI. Sancta Veronica ("O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden")
- Station VII. Jesus fällt zum zweiten Mal
- Station VIII. Die Frauen von Jerusalem ("Nolite flere super me, sed super vos ipos et super filios vestros")
- Station IX. Jesus fällt zum dritten Mal
- Station X. Jesus wird entkleidet
- Station XI. Jesus wird ans Kreuz gsechlagen ("Crucifige")
- Station XII. Jesus stirbt am Kreuze ("Eli, Eli, lamma Sabacthani")
- Station XIII. Jesus wird kom Kreuz genommen
- Station XIV. Jesus wird ins Grab gelegt ("Ave Crux, spes unica")
Soloists:
Pilatus: Olle Holmgren
Jesus: Øystein Stensheim
Mari Askvik, contralto
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