Thursday 30.May 19:00 Christiania Sparebank, Øvre slottsgate 3 Havresekken gives you the artists you didn’t know you liked, and the songs you haven’t heard, at places you didn’t know you were going to enjoy. Thursday 30 May Havresekken invites you to a genre free musical evening with three artists in Norway’s first savings bank. Join us for a musical journey of discovery in the bank, and see what kind of temptations are lurking inside one of Oslo’s safest vault! (And we might be one of them…) Following text in Norwegian only. ARTIST #77: SAMTIDSSIKADER Dette 9-mannsensemblet ble grunnlagt i 1989 og har siden turnert verden rundt og gitt ut en haug album. På den internasjonale samtidsmusikks

Sunday 19.May 14:00 Turbinhallen, Tyssedal HARDANGER MUSIKKFEST with CIKADA STRING QUARTETT Marianne Beate Kielland, Mezzo John Cage (1912-1992) String Quartet movement 1 and 4 Georg Haas (1953) String Quartet Hans Abrahamsen (1952) String Quartet no 3 Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) Songs (arr. for mezzo and string quartet by Wolfgang Plagge) • Neue Liebe • An die Geliebte • Verborgenheit • Das verlassene Mägdlein

Friday 17.May 21:30 Ullensvang kirke HARDANGER MUSIKKFEST Contrast and interaction, folk and avant-garde Elliot Carter (1908-2012): Fragment 1 for string quartet Cikada Sting Quartet Ingen vinner frem til den evige ro, after Anders Jordalen Åsne Valland Nordli, song Benedicte Maurseth, hardanger fiddle Øistein Sommerfeldt (1919-1994): Saxifraga Stig Nilsson, violin Vert ljos, trad from Tjøtta in Nordland. Lyrics by Anders Hovden, Overtone by Maurseth/Valland Borgor gangar, trad from Setesdal Åsne Valland Nordli, song Benedicte Maurseth, hardanger fiddle Elliot Carter (1908-2012): Fragment 2 for string quartet Cikada String Quartet Bøn og Sisselhallingen, by Benedicte Maurseth Åsne

Wednesday 15.May 17:30 Hotel Ullensvang, Hardangerhallen Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Ved Rondane From Tolv melodier til digte af A.O. Vinje, op. 33, no 9 Marianne Beate Kielland, Mezzo Sveinung Bjelland, Piano Anton Webern (1883-1945): Fra Acht frühe Gesange Marianne Beate Kielland, Mezzo Sveinung Bjelland, Piano Magnar Åm (1952): inngang, nærver, utgang Concerto for Viola and Strings (WP) Lars Anders Tomter, Viola Cikada String Quartet - intermission - Erich Wolfgang Korngold(1897-1957): Wolfgang Plagge, Piano Stjernedryss (Stardust) is Hardanger Musikkfest’s new collaboration with the schools in the Hardanger municipalities Eidfjord, Odda and Ullensvang. In 2013, fourteen students f