5th annual Promoting Classical Music in Nigeria Concert Tour would hold between 13th - March 3rd 2012. The opening and closing concert will be in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy Abuja Nigeria. the concert will feature several international artistes.
Our Promoting Classical Music in Nigeria Concert Tour/Master class is a two-three days visit to
schools with trained International musicologist in Classical Music with the aim of encouraging
young people to embrace classical music, helping the development of Music education in
schools amongst young person as well as helping them discover their musical ability. The target
of this project is to help in the development of a sound musical education in Nigeria as well as
produce the finest generation of musicians in a projected ten years plan.
Geir Henning Braaten is an international renowned concert Pianist and a Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian State Academy of Music Oslo. Since his debut in 1966, Geir Henning Braaten has been one of Norway’s most frequently used pianists. In 1967 he won the 1st prize in the “Prinsesse Astrid – Competition” for young Norwegian pianists at Trondheim. He is also prizewinner in the Concours Debussy at St – Germain – en – Laye, France (1977), and first medalist in the “Concurso Maria Canals” at Barcelona Spain in 1972.
Our Promoting Classical Music in Nigeria Concert Tour/Master class is a two-three days visit to
schools with trained International musicologist in Classical Music with the aim of encouraging
young people to embrace classical music, helping the development of Music education in
schools amongst young person as well as helping them discover their musical ability. The target
of this project is to help in the development of a sound musical education in Nigeria as well as
produce the finest generation of musicians in a projected ten years plan.
ARTISTES ON PARADE FOR OUR 2012 EDITION
Geir Henning Braaten is an international renowned concert Pianist and a Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian State Academy of Music Oslo. Since his debut in 1966, Geir Henning Braaten has been one of Norway’s most frequently used pianists. In 1967 he won the 1st prize in the “Prinsesse Astrid – Competition” for young Norwegian pianists at Trondheim. He is also prizewinner in the Concours Debussy at St – Germain – en – Laye, France (1977), and first medalist in the “Concurso Maria Canals” at Barcelona Spain in 1972. Geir Henning Braaten has given concerts throughout Norway as well as most other European countries. He has done several extensive tours in the Far East with concerts in Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. International engagements have also brought him to Brazil, Mexico, the Middle East and Africa. He has also performed many times in the USA, both as a recitalist and as soloist with symphony orchestras.
Geir Henning Braaten’s first visit to Nigeria was in August 2008 for a recital and master class in Lagos based on an invitation from The Philharmonics Company. On his Visit to Nigeria in 2009-2011 he performed and had a master class in Abeokuta. The Philharmonics Company then collaborated with the Royal Norwegian Embassy, The Transcorp Hilton Hotel, and Strauss School of music and Dance for a piano concert and master classes in Abuja.
Ingrid Vetlesen (born 1981) is a young Norwegian soprano who studied at the Music Conservatory, Tromsø University College, and Rogaland Music Conservatory, Stavanger, before graduating from the Royal Danish Opera Academy, Copenhagen in 2009. Ingrid has been awarded numerous scholarships in Norway and in Denmark. In 2007, she was a finalist in the Queen Sonja National Music Competition and in 2009, she won the first prize and the audience award in the Opera Grand Prix at the Oslo Opera Festival.
Jack Glatzer was born in Dallas, Texas. He began the study of the violin at the age of five and at thirteen gave his debut recital. A year later he appeared as soloist with the Dallas Symphony under Walter Hendl. When he was seventeen Glatzer won first prize in violin in the nation's most important competition for young musicians, the Merriwether Post Competition in Washington, D.C. and subsequently performed the Brahms Concerto with the National Symphony under Howard Mitchell. Of this performance the Washington Post wrote: "Glatzer, electing to play one of the greatest tests of violin literature, gave it with real musicality. He put real music-making into his authoritative reading. He has already the marks of a real musician and a fine violinist."
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