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Piano Guest Artist Recital: Oda Voltersvik
October 28 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Piano Guest Artist Recital: Oda Voltersvik
7:30 PM Monday, October 28
Beckwith Recital Hall*
Free and open to the public
Join us on campus for a free guest artist recital featuring pianist Oda Voltersvik. Her recital will include piano works by lesser-known and underrepresented Nordic female composers including Elfrida Andrée, Laura Netzel, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Inger Bang Lund and Pauline Hall. More info about the programme here: www.odavoltersvik.com/nordicfemalecomposers
Oda will also conduct a piano masterclass from 12:30 – 1:30 PM Tuesday, October 29, in Beckwith Recital Hall as part of the NDSU Piano Studio Event Series. Both events are free and open to the public.
*Please note: due to construction of the Challey School of Music building expansion, patrons will need to use the SOUTH entrances of Reineke Fine Arts Center to access Beckwith Recital Hall.
ABOUT ODA VOLTERSVIK:
Oda Voltersvik – “(…) an extraordinary Scandinavian artist!” (Per Brevig, Musicians Club New York) – has performed at important venues internationally including Carnegie Hall & Scandinavia House (NYC), Wigmore Hall & St Martin in the Fields (London), the Norwegian Opera House and from 2014 – 2024; artist in residence for a week at the Edvard Grieg museum in Bergen. As a solo and chamber musician she has held recitals for important concert societies and taken part in festivals internationally, including several solo recital tours and concerto performances in the US. Her CD releases “NEO”, “Firebird” and her piano duo recording “Khoreia” have received great reviews. Oda received the honourable Norwegian Arts Council` s work grant for younger and newly established artists for 2021 & 2022. She is a 1st prize winner of the Bradshaw £ Buono International competition (2017) and finalist in the Jaques Samuels competition (2016). For her solo and chamber music projects, she has been awarded grants from the Arts Council Norway, Fund for Performing Artists, Music Norway, Bergen City and Fegerstens foundation among others. Oda is a member of an active piano duo; the Volt&Potenza duo and has been project leader of several successful concert series for her Volt Ensemble among others, including Volt Classics held in Bergen. Oda holds a Master in Performance from the Royal College of Music London and an Artist Diploma from Trinity Laban Conservatoire (with distinction from the Intercollegiate Jury).