Drop-in concerts
Festival Academy of Bergen
Stop by for a daytime music boost.
Students from the Grieg Academy take the stage, ensuring memorable musical experiences nearly every day at 12:00 and 15:00 during the Festival.
These short daytime concerts offer a variety of musical genres – with a focus on the classical repertoire. There will be concerts with everything from solo performances to a chamber orchestra.
The concert series are a popular Festival tradition with a more than 50 year long history, plenty of surprises, and a great atmosphere. Among previous artists in the Drop-in concert series include Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, who will also give a concert at the 2026 Festival. Maybe it’s the next classical sensation that will appear on the Drop-in stage?
Drop-in concert in 2025. Photo: Thor Brødreskift
Tickets
Standard: 60
Ticket bundles with five optional concerts: 190
Ticket bundles in sale at the Festival ticket booth and at the concert entrance.
Same price for all concerts. Ticket sales online, or at the ticket booth at Torgallmenningen from 26 May or at the entrance before each concert.
Practical information
Doors open 30 minutes before each concert.
Concert details
Friday 29 May at 12:00
June Klipper Halvorsen saxophone
Katrine Bratteng flute
Mona Sjøvaag viola
Nils Rainer Vågen euphonium
Mads Oliver Hamberg cello
Works by Alfred Evensen, Dmitrij Sjostakovitsj, Mats Paulson & Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
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Leon Zapffe piano
Ludwig v. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 5 in C minor op. 10 no. 1, first movement
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade no. 1 op. 23
Saturday 30 May at 12:00
Martin Korsvold Gjerholm piano
Works by Ludwig v. Beethoven, Claude Debussy & Franz Liszt
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Ricardo Odriozola, Natali Turiatko, Bernhard Sekkelsten violin
Ketil Hvoslef: Tre Violini nr. 1 & 2 (2025)
Saturday 30 May at 15:00
Mária Magdolna Boross viola
György Kurtag: Népdalféle, J.H.Sang, Carenza-Jig
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Pavel Girunyan clarinet
Natali Turiatko, Mona Sjøvaag violin
Mária Magdolna Boross viola
Mads Oliver Hamberg cello
Johanns Brahms: Clarinet quintet op. 115
Sunday 31 May at 12:00
Helen Tyssekvam soprano
Signe Bakke piano
Edvard Grieg: Sechs Lieder, op. 48
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Mária Magdolna Boross viola
Jarle Rotevatn piano
Paul Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher, 2nd and 3rd Movement
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Zsuzsa Zseni mezzo soprano
Mária Magdolna Boross viola
Jarle Rotevatn piano
Frank Bridge: 3 Songs for voice, viola and piano
Monday 1 June at 12:00
Nils Rainer Vågen euphonium
Jarle Rotevatn piano
Works by Diego Ortiz, Stig Nordhagen, Eduardo Boccalari & Arthur Butterworth
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Heidi Lyngholm violin
Elena Dikic piano
Juni C. Ottesen cello
Max Bruch: Violin concerto no. 1 in G minor op. 26, 3rd movement
Clara Schumann: Piano trio in G minor op. 17, 1st movement
Tuesday 2 June at 12:00
Kari Knudsen violin
Hallgeir Fiskaaen guitar
Astor Piazolla: Histoire du Tango
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Jacob Brown Slåttum piano
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, op. 15
Tuesday 2 June at 15:00
Balder Brudeseth Holmedal piano
Robert Schumann: Piano sonata in G minor, op. 22
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Agnes Önnerstad piano
Edvard Grieg: Lyrical pieces, op. 54
Wednesday 3 June at 12:00
Sigurd Mosbakk piano
Johann Sebastian Bach: in G Major BWV 829
Toru Takemitsu: Litany
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Helen Tyssekvam soprano
Daniel Henry Øvrebø flute
Sølve Andre Håvik piano
Ana Maria Oancea: Hamlet?
Wednesday 3 June at 15:00
Joanna Ridao Wang violin
Elena Dikić piano
Dora Pejačević:Violin sonata no. 1 in D Major, 1st movement
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Sigurd Mosbakk piano
Franz Schubert: Piano sonata in A Major d.959, Second movement
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Laetitia Stemp soprano
Helen Tyssekvam soprano
Knut Christian Jansson piano
Songs by Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Strauss, Georg Friedrich Händel, Pauline Viardot & Frank Loesser
Thursday 4 June at 12:00
Giorgi Grdzelidze piano
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, op. 15
Robert Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze, op. 6
Friday 5 June at 12:00
Heidi Lyngholm violin
Elena Dikic piano
Juni C. Ottesen cello
Clara Schumann: Piano trio in G minor op. 17, 1st movement
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June Klipper Halvorsen saxophone
Tor Erik Seime Pettersen piano
Willima Albright: Saxophone sonata, 1st and 2nd movement
Lars-Erik Larsson: Concerto for saxophone, 1st movement
Friday 5 June at 15:00
Kari Knudsen violin
Kateryna Persysta piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano no. 4 in A minor op. 23
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Agnes Önnerstad piano
Frederic Chopin: Piano sonata no. 3 in B minor op. 58
Saturday 6 June at 12:00
Grieg Academy Young Talents
Emil Alexander Ren Johansson, Polina Zhurzha, Luca-Kristina Solheim piano
Sunniva Karlsen Wüller, Anna Bracke oboe
Lene Marie Hofstätter clarinet
Anastasiya Ostianina flute
Brynjar Sander Heggholmen Trygg French horn
Rafael Fernando Johnsen Silva trumpet
Amanda Kvammen, Evan Roer-Bakken voice
Knut Christian Jansson accompanist
Chamber music and solo performances with works by Edvard Grieg, Joseph Haydn, Rolf Wallin and more
Saturday 6 June at 15:00
Grieg Academy Young Talents
Marit Mangersnes Lied violin
Lene Marie Hofstätter clarinet
Sunniva Karlsen Wüller, Anna Bracke oboe
Brynjar Sander Heggholmen Trygg French horn
Emil Alexander Ren Johansson, Polina Zhurzha piano
Knut Christian Jansson accompanist
Chamber music and solo performances with works by Carl Reinecke, Sergej Rachmaninov, Cesar Franck and more
A collaboration between
Bergen International Festival and The Grieg Academy – Department of Music
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