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  • Poppe // nyMusikk
    Poppe // nyMusikk
    Sun 14 Jun
    Ridehuset, Oslo
    14 Jun 2026, 19:00 – 20:00
    Ridehuset, Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    Cikada presents new music by the award-winning German composer!
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past events

  • Requiem for a Star
    Requiem for a Star
    Sat 24 Jan
    Oslo
    24 Jan 2026, 19:00 – 20:00
    Oslo, Sagene, Oslo, Norway
    Cosmic Soundscapes of Destruction and Creation
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  • Requiem for a Star
    Requiem for a Star
    Thu 22 Jan
    Hamar
    22 Jan 2026, 19:00 – 20:00
    Hamar, Hamar, Norway
    Cosmic Soundscapes of Destruction and Creation
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  • Requiem for a Star
    Requiem for a Star
    Wed 21 Jan
    Trondheim
    21 Jan 2026, 19:00 – 20:00
    Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
    Cosmic Soundscapes of Destruction and Creation
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  • Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games // BRUSK
    Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games // BRUSK
    Fri 19 Dec
    Musea Brugge / BRUSK
    19 Dec 2025, 20:00
    Musea Brugge / BRUSK, Dijver 12, 8000 Brugge, Belgium
    Children flying kites in Afghanistan, playing knucklebones in Nepal. Snail races in Belgium, orange dances in Denmark.
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  • Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games // WIEN MODERN
    Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games // WIEN MODERN
    Mon 03 Nov
    Säulenhalle, Museum für angewandte Kunst
    03 Nov 2025, 17:00
    Säulenhalle, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien, Østerrike
    Children flying kites in Afghanistan, playing knucklebones in Nepal. Snail races in Belgium, orange dances in Denmark.
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  • LABORATORIUM #5
    LABORATORIUM #5
    Fri 17 Oct
    Stange
    17 Oct 2025, 19:00 – 20:30
    Stange, Sørumvegen 265, 2335 Stange, Norway
    Reqiuem for a Star - Cosmic Soundscapes of Destruction and Creation with Cikada String Quartet.
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  • Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games // WARSAW AUTUMN
    Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games // WARSAW AUTUMN
    Mon 22 Sept
    Warsaw
    22 Sept 2025, 19:00 – 20:30
    Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
    Children flying kites in Afghanistan, playing knucklebones in Nepal. Snail races in Belgium, orange dances in Denmark.
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  • Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games
    Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games
    Multiple Dates
    Sun 14 Sept
    Astrup Fearnley
    14 Sept 2025, 15:00 – 16:30
    Astrup Fearnley , Strandpromenaden 2, 0252 Oslo, Norway
    Children flying kites in Afghanistan, playing knucklebones in Nepal. Snail races in Belgium, orange dances in Denmark.
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  • Harpreet Bansal & Cikada String Quartet
    Harpreet Bansal & Cikada String Quartet
    Sat 06 Sept
    Victoria, Nasjonal jazzscene
    06 Sept 2025, 20:00
    Victoria, Nasjonal jazzscene, Karl Johans gt. 35, 0162 Oslo, Norway
    Indian raga and contemporary Western music merge in the most beautiful way
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  • Summer concert in Drøbak
    Summer concert in Drøbak
    Sat 28 Jun
    Drøbak church
    28 Jun 2025, 12:00
    Drøbak church, Kirkegata 18, 1440 Drøbak, Norway
    Summer matinée in Drøbak church
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  • "KORK Kammer" with Cikada cellist Torun Stavseng
    "KORK Kammer" with Cikada cellist Torun Stavseng
    Wed 21 May
    NRK Store Studio
    21 May 2025, 19:00 – 23:00
    NRK Store Studio, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons plass 1, 0340 Oslo, Norway
    A chamber concert in the spirit of Romanticism
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  • All Play
    All Play
    Sun 30 Mar
    Marmorsalen, Sentralen
    30 Mar 2025, 15:00 – 16:30
    Marmorsalen, Sentralen, Øvre Slottsgate 3, 0157 Oslo, Norway
    Cikada invites you to an evening where the boundaries between the human, the natural, and the unpredictable are explored through ghostly resonances, the timeless poetry of knots, and Smørdal's musical experiments.
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  • Cikada String Quartet at Gullbring
    Cikada String Quartet at Gullbring
    Wed 06 Nov
    Gullbring
    06 Nov 2024, 19:00
    Gullbring, Gullbringvegen 34, 3800 Bø i Telemark, Norway
    Cikada String Quartet present a exciting program at Gullbring, Bø in Telemark
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  • Musikagileak's Circuit!
    Musikagileak's Circuit!
    Mon 04 Nov
    Auditorium of Musikene
    04 Nov 2024, 19:30
    Auditorium of Musikene, Europa Plaza, 2, 20018 Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Spain
    Cikada String Quartet heads toward San Sebastián once more!
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  • The Sound of Utopia
    The Sound of Utopia
    Mon 28 Oct
    Norges musikkhøgskole
    28 Oct 2024, 13:00 – 16:00
    Norges musikkhøgskole, Slemdalsveien 11, 0369 Oslo, Norway
    Open seminar in the composition class' master's forum, featuring performances from Cikada among others.
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  • Sagene morning concert
    Sagene morning concert
    Sat 26 Oct
    Sagene kirke
    26 Oct 2024, 10:00
    Sagene kirke, Dannevigsveien 17, 0463 Oslo, Norway
    Let Kenneth Karlsson brighten your morning!
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  • Cikada Piano Quartet // Periferien
    Cikada Piano Quartet // Periferien
    Wed 09 Oct
    Gamle Oslo
    09 Oct 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
    Gamle Oslo, Tøyengata 53, 0563 Oslo, Norway
    Cikada Piano Quartet takes the stage at Gamle Munch
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  • Cikada String Quartet at Ultima & Oslo Quartet Series
    Cikada String Quartet at Ultima & Oslo Quartet Series
    Tue 17 Sept
    Akershus festning, Ridehuset
    17 Sept 2024, 19:00
    Akershus festning, Ridehuset, Sentrum, Oslo, Norway
    Ultima & Oslo Quartet Series present Cikada String Quartet
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  • States of Wonder – Cikada at Ultima
    States of Wonder – Cikada at Ultima
    Sat 14 Sept
    Marmorsalen, Sentralen
    14 Sept 2024, 14:00
    Marmorsalen, Sentralen, Øvre Slottsgate 3, 0157 Oslo, Norway
    Cikada's annual concert at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
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news

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Night Lives album out now!

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When the sun goes down, a new world comes to life that most of us know little about. Cikada has recorded Kristine Tjøgersen's magnificent excursion into this shrouded world of nocturnal creatures.

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Night Lives is out now!

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02/

Popping with Cikada

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Popping imagines a future where music is shattered into memes and genres blur. Is it a dystopia—or a musical utopia? 

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A burst of sci-fi, politics, and pop absurdity—Our newest album Popping is out now.

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03/

New CD release!

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Check out our new live album with music from Donaueschinger Musiktage 2018 and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2001.

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press

5against4.com

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The most impressive theatrical work i experienced at Ultima 2023 was Night Lives, from the irrespressible Kristine Tjøgersen. Equal parts mischievous and childlike, Tjøgersen’s responses to and inspirations from the natural world are always as mind boggling as they are imaginative, and in recent years have been treated to stunning realisations.

 

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