Last Friday I had the privilege of premiering my newest piano concerto with young and sparkling Nordic Harmony at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. I tell you, there is NO bigger feeling that playing your own music with a kick ass orchestra next to you!! You´ll see more to the orchestra and me together in the future :)
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Tue, 2015-09-01 12:11
Last Friday I had the privilege of premiering my newest piano concerto with young and sparkling Nordic Harmony at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. I tell you, there is NO bigger feeling that playing your own music with a kick ass orchestra next to you!! You´ll see more to the orchestra and me together in the future :)
Mon, 2015-08-24 11:26
Found my self a nice mountain cottage (in Valdres, Norway) which I bought for my mother. Here I find inspiration to compose and just finished writing my newest piano concerto which I will be premiering this Friday with Nordic Harmony at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.
And when not in the mountains getting inspired, I get a kick from the fjord in Oslo.... (Photo by Cathrine Dokken) 
(Photo by Mats Grimseth) 
All in all it resulted in this... Click here to listen
Thu, 2015-05-14 10:06
Performed in awesome Hong Kong last week in Kowloon! Relaxing before the concert....
And then after the concert I went "local"......
And THEN.....I found paradise in Sai Kung, just a 40 min drive from Kowloon.
Next up is Brussels !!
Tue, 2015-04-21 14:26
Bought my self a little beast of a car for SUP and surf. (Had to be NBA´s top car: KIA)
And now you see why I call it "the little beast"...
And yeah, bought a couple of them too...!! SUP&Champagne is ON! Book boards or SUP events NOW and experience Aksel´s "urban impressionism"!!
Tue, 2015-04-21 14:22
Tue, 2015-04-21 14:18
Testing, fingers ok and good to go!!
Had a traditional local band warming up for me (how COOL isn´t THAT)
Gametime!
Afterparty! Everybody dresses up like this during the MARVELLLOUS Vinterfestuka in Narvik! DON´T miss it next March!!
Tue, 2015-04-21 14:13
Photo text: look at all the celebrities doing funny celebrity-faces at the same time, lol!
Producers from TV2 wanted me to do a showcase for them not too long ago, so I invited them all to Café de Concert to show them what I was made of!
Crossing fingers! Maybe I´ll end up updating you through TV also, hehe!
Was a blast!
Photo text: "like a boss"
Awesome crew!
Sat, 2015-03-07 12:09
Thank´s to the magnificent Trond Hellstrøm I now go bananas every day at Café de Concert on a HEAVENLY Bechstein concert grand. I pretty much exclusively perform on Bechstein instruments from Hellstrøm Piano & Flygel AS in Norway if a grand piano needs to be rented at the concert venue.
My old basketball coach Pål Berg gave me my old jersey I played with when I was a teenager. MAN that made my day!!!!
Sat, 2015-03-07 12:01
Excited crowd in Tallinn two weeks a go where I enjoyed my self 110 % on stage! Always loving performing in Tallinn, here at the Tallinn Chamber Music Festival, organised by the Pille Lill Music Foundation.
Met up with wonderful friends after the concert!!
Had an absolutely unforgettable time performing at the Hemsing festival last week!! Ragnhild and Eldbjørg are top notch musicians and great fun to work with...Finally, I got to perform with them - haha! (Photos from the festival by Cathrine Dokken, awesome photographer!)
This morning I just came back from Riga, performing for Visma!, something I´d gladly do over again!!!!!
SWAG!!!!
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