After last years sensational concert with L´Appeggiata in Bodø Cathedral where Raquel Andueza took the audience by storm, she returns again to Bodø with a new program at this years festival. With her she´s got Jesús Fernándes Baena on theorbe, and together they will perform a magnificent baroque program in Bodin Church.

It is both intense and exciting when Grammy nominees Hekla Stålstrenga plays a concert. During the Nordland Music Festival they will play together with Tromsø Champer orchestra on one of Norway’s wildest concert arenas, the mountain Keiservarden with it´s 366 meters above sea level with the fabulous sight of Bodø as well as the grand view of the Lofoten wall.

The Opera Querini of Hening Sommerro will be performed at Røst the 4^th of August.

There has already been sold over 800 tickets to the opera performance, and the only opportunity to get a hold of a ticket is to by one of our festival packages. You can either travel  “the old way”, with the veteran boat Gamle Salten, or by air. Our festival ticket includes the travel and opera ticket.

Rolf-Erik Nystrøm is one of Europa’s leading saxophonists, and this years festival profile at Nordland Music Festival. He is a versatile musician and was in 2011 nominated at the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize. He is highly resourceful and we will perceive this through series of stunning productions during the Music festival 2012. 

We have written an article about him here, so go on reading!

To day we have released six films from the festival 2011. In this video we present some of the highlights form the program with L'Arpeggiata, tango performance at Keiservarden (366 meters over sea level) and the closing concert which was a commission by Jan Gunnar Hoff.