Artistic work
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| 2006 December |
14 December 2006
 Recital
with Mari Eriksmoen, soprano, at Bogstad gård, Oslo
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7 December 2006
Recital with Mari Eriksmoen, soprano, at Brasseriet, Larvik
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| 2006 September |
24 September and 29 October 2006
Café de Concert at Abildsø gård
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- 3 September 2006
Café de Concert-festival, Gamlebyen,
Fredrikstad
Pianist, composer and artistic director
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| 2006 June |
June 9th 2006 Norwegian Academy of music
 Concert-exam
(bahcelor's degree)
Lindeman hall 17.30, free entrance
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano-concerto no 11 in F-major
- Allegro
- Largetto
- Tempo di Menuetto
 Cadenzas: Aksel
Kolstad
Franz Schubert: The Trout-quintet
- Allegro vivace
- Andante
- Presto
- Thema
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Allegro giusto
Aksel Kolstad: Concert-Rondo:
Geopolitical Child Watching the Birth of the New man,
(Piano solo and orchestra)
String quartets and orchestra from The Norwegian Academy of
Music
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| 2006 April |
 April 2006
St. Petersburg, Russia
Great success with the concert in St.
Petersburg. 6 pieces for orchestra and
soloists written by Kolstad, inspired by paintings of Salvador Dali.
Various concerts with chambermusic in St. Petersburg, Russia.
See also newsreel from TV5
Pavlovsk.
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 April
2nd 17.00 - Parkteateret, Moss
Soloist with Moss Janitsjar Orchestra in Rhapsody in Blue by George
Gerswhin.
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| 2006 March |
March 2006 The Røros winter-festival
Festival composer at the Røros winter-festival. See www.vinterfestspill.no
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March 2006 Mozart under Coconuts and Palm trees-festival
Pianist, composer and
artistic director
www.cafedeconcert.no/mozartundercoconuts.htm
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| 2006 January |
"Med
Broderligt Sind", Oslo Konserthus
 January 2006
Festival of Gloger at
Kongsberg
Glogerfestspillene, Kongsberg. See www.glogerfestspillene.no
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| 2005 November |
On tour with Østfold Symphony
Orchestra, soloist in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue |
| 2005 May |
On tour with his own compositions for
orchestra and soloists inspired by pictures of Salvador Dalí (conductor
and soloist) |
| 2005 February |
Selection from Mozarts Piano concerto no
12 live on Radio NRK P2
"Mozart
under Coconuts and Palm trees-festival" in the Caribbean Sea
(St. Vincent and the Grenadines). Pianist, composer and artistic
director
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| 2004 November |
Selected movements from Mussorgsky’s
Pictures at an Exhibition at Gamlebyen Church, Fredrikstad
Soloist
with Oslo String Quartet at Café de Concert, Oslo
Concert
at Café de Concert with Oslo String Quartet, Haakan Hagegaard and Isa
Gericke in an arranged version of Puccini’s Tosca as Caravadossi,
tenor-character.
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| 2004 August |
Recording with His Majesty the King’s
Guard’s Orchestra as a piano soloist |
| 2004 |
Soloist and conductor at Café de
Concert, Oslo, in Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin. Soloist with Ole Olsen’s
Petite Suite at Café de Concert, Oslo.
Combined
orchestra with students from The Norwegian Academy of Music and The
Barratt Due Music Conservatory.
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| 2003 |
Café de Concert - a new concert arena
for young and established musicians |
| 2003 |
Soloist in Oslo Concert Hall - Ole
Olsens - Petite Suite - with His
Majesty the King’s Guard’s Orchestra |
| 2003 |
Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin) in the city
of Fredrikstad with Borge Janitsjar-orchestra |
| 2003 March June |
On tour with Joachim Knoph in Oslo,
Fredrikstad,
Bergen, Trondheim, Tromsø, Stockholm and Malmö
Chamber music for piano/violin/cello by Kolstad and Knoph |
| 2001 - 2002 |
Served for one year in His Majesty The
King’s Guard as a pianist, semi-conductor, choir-instructor and
percussionist. |
| 2001 |
Soloist in Olavshallen, Trondheim - Serenade (Ole Olsen’s - Petite
Suite -) |
| 2001 |
Soloist in Oslo Concert Hall - Rhapsody
in Blue (Gershwin) with His Majesty the King’s Guard’s Orchestra.
Given the Prize of Honour from His Majesty the King’s Guard’s
Orchestra |
| 2001 |
His Majesty The King’s Guard 2 CD
recordings, soloist on one of them |
| 1999 |
Atmosphere, CD, Kolstad playing some of
his compositions for piano and a piece by Rachmaninov |
| 1997 - 2000 |
Various concerts in Sweden, Estonia,
Germany, Hungary and Finland with historical as well as own compositions |
1993, 1997
and 1999 |
Participant in Norway’s national
piano competition
2nd price in 1999 |
| 1991 |
Soloist with Østfold Chamber Orchestra
Haydn piano-concerto, 1. movement, Sarpsborg |
