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After takeing over my new gallery a couple of days ago, I celebrated by going bananas at the Moods of Norway Store!! But as you can see, I had reason to celebrate... In my concert gallery BMW put a 640 i M sport 6 series insde...you know, just to pimp my gallery a bit, lol! It´s the only one in Norway. And it really rocks the space!! Here I am with the big boss of BMW Bilia Fornebu himself, Mr. Øyvind Berger! Just wait until I post photos of the whole gallery - it´s huge! Paintings and photos are ready to be hung up on the wall - I especially love this one, made by Yngve Oliver Eriksen! It´s called Aksel the Barbarian!! How cool is that!!!???!! I actually put that photo on the backside of one of my two business-cards!! The backside of the other businesscard looks like this: Here´s the frontside of both of them, by the way :): Last week I did another photoshoot with photographer Trond Andersen and models from Diamantemodeling for BMW. Will post the whole photoshoot on my blog soon! Here´s a little teaser...ps: Henle Music Edition rules!! :D

Working out in the ring at Gleason´s Gym in Brooklyn, where Mike Tyson, Muhammed Ali, Joe Frazier and so many more have become champions. Don´t´miss the photo-exibithion from the photoshoot taken by Trond Andersen on April 18th at the opening of Cafe de Concert, Oslo! It will knock you out! Tyson´s sparring partner nicknamed me "The White Floyd Mayweather". I can dig that :D

Last Saturday I performed at the Opera in Nordfjoreid on the west coast of Norway, played on a superb Fazioli, crowd was excellent! Then - I hit the local bar at 11 pm and partied alone for about 2 hours :D Had two conference-concerts at Hotel Opera in Oslo for bright young Norwegian students, and got a standing ovation after the last concert, inspiering to see the young generation get inspired by Mr. Kolstad in action:) Drove a fancy BMW 520d sport-m to my concert in Gjøvik, which was PACKED with people, standing ovation and encores for the rock star ;) Thank you Øyvind Berger for letting my drive such a sweet ride to the concert!! Resonans concert series in Gjøvik is a kick ass project which ALL classical musicians should check out ASAP! They have a FANTASTIC Bechstein!! Had a looot of meetings regarding my new Café de Concert opening April 18th @ Tjuvholmen, check these photos - it´s HUGE!!!! Room for a loooot of Kolstad love and crazyness!!
And yesterday I was hosting the ceremonial concert of the amazing Masquerade 2012 in Oslo. Over 500 people in the concert hall, Universitetets Aula, and the two other miniconcerts I played at Gamle Logen later that evening was also PACKED with people! If you ever are in Oslo on February 16th next year - let´s meet up HERE :) Also performed with the fantastic Swedish soprano Negar Zarassi, she had her Norwegian debut yesterday, and boy did they love her!Met a veeery cool photographer, Frøydis Asp Ormåsen, and we have a MINDBLOWING exhibition coming up together!
New York tomorrow! Photoshoot with Alex Mora, Trond Andersen, a couple of house concerts, tons of meetings and lots of love to share for NYC! C u there, partypeople!! Time to represent my country again
- Aksel

Yo guys! I´ll be opening a new place for Café de Concert - 150 m2 right next to the Astrup Fernley Museum in Oslo (Tjuvholmen) on April 18th at 8 pm. Save the date, it will be a blast! BMW will be exhibiting a new car every month inside Café de Concert and there will be lots of cool photo and painting ehxibitions in HUGE dimensions in addition to lots of fun concerts. And yeah - I´ll be hanging on the walls on the opening, of course :D