Musicians

Harald Bakkeby Moe

Harald Bakkeby Moe completed a Master’s in music performance at the Norwegian Academy of Music in the spring of 2009. He has considerable work experience both as a soloist and ensemble singer. In the autumn of 2009 he had the role of Hallvard in the church play St. Hallvard in an Ung Kirkesang performance in Stavanger. As an ensemble singer, he has performed with various ensembles, including Nordic Voices and the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir.

Berit Norbakken Solset

Berit Norbakken Solset completed a Bachelor programme at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2005. As well as being a frequently used soloist in oratorios, passions and masses, Berit has performed solo concerts at the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, the Bergen International Festival, the Arts Festival of Northern Norway, Vestfold International Festival and the Northern Lights Festival.

Adelinn Fønnebø

Adelinn Fønnebø is a singer and teacher. She is born and raised in Tromsø and has been active in both local and regional musical circles. Adelinn has been a soloist, choral conductor and many other musical projects. Adelinn Fønnebø has been a vocalist in the Midnight Sun concerts since the start in 1995.

Bodil Onsøien

Bodil Onsøien has her background as a church musician, singer and singing teacher. She is educated at the Trøndelag Music Conservatory, Tromsø University College, Faculty of Fine Arts and most recently the Complete Vocal Institute in Copenhagen, where she is an authorised teacher of the Complete vocal technique. Bodil lives in Tromsø and works as a singing teacher at the University of Tromsø and Kongsbakken Upper Secondary School. She is also a choir conductor and runs singing workshops.

Anne Berit Buvik

Anne Berit Buvik is a mezzo-soprano from the Municipality of Sørfold. Anne Berit, 26, has studied singing with Professor Anne-Lise Sollied at the Music Conservatory in Tromsø, where she took her final exam in June 2009. She has completed many solo assignments including the chamber choirs Trøkk and Ultima Thule. She works as a singing teacher at the Tromsø School of Music and Performing Arts and is also sings in the choir Vokal Nord, where she is often used as a soloist.

Wenche Maria Jentoft

Wenche Maria Jentoft has studied singing and musical theatre in Tromsø and Trondheim and has taken further education in Trossingen, Germany, where she specialised in early music. After completing her studies she worked as a vocalist, voice teacher and choir conductor in Germany before she moved to Norway and worked as a district musician in the Municipality of Nesna in Nordland.

Øyvind Bakkeby Moe

Øyvind Bakkeby Moe is educated as a trumpeter at the Music Conservatory in Tromsø. With Tromsø as his base, Øyvind has been active for the past 15 years as a professional musician, soloist, conductor, band leader and producer. He has toured and visited Northern Norway in many contexts, and he has also been fortunate to work in Lebanon, South Africa, Sweden, Germany, England, Kenya, Haiti and Palestine, as well as many exciting assignments in other parts of Norway. Øyvind has played at the Midnight Sun concerts for the past 13 years.

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Hanne-Sofie Akselsen

Hanne-Sofie Akselsen is educated as an instrument teacher, choral conductor and flautist at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tromsø and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague in the Netherlands. She has studied with Paul Wåhlberg and Barthold Kuijken and completed her Master’s in traverse flute in the spring of 2010. Since the autumn of 1999, Hanne-Sofie has been the conductor and artistic leader of Det Norske Mannskor av 1995, Tromsø’s academic men’s choir. Hanne-Sofie has been a flautist in the Midnight Sun concerts since the autumn of 2010.

Kristina Nygård

Kristina Nygård (b. 1979) has studied for four years at the Norwegian Academy of Music under Eivind Aadland and Detflef Hahn. She has since 2004 been employed in the Tromsø Chamber Orchestra, formerly the Tromsø Symphony Orchestra.

Robert Frantzen

Robert Frantzen is a versatile and experienced pianist. He has played actively in Tromsø and the rest of Northern Norway since 1984, and is in high demand as an accompanist playing jazz, popular music or church music. With his elegant piano playing and musical talent, Robert Frantzen has made his mark on the popular Midnight Sun concerts at the Arctic Cathedral, where he can also play the church organ.

Kristian Paulsen

Kristian Paulsen works as cantor at the Arctic Cathedral and is responsible for the concert activities. He is educated at the Music Conservatory in Tromsø, Piteå School of Music and Kirkelig utdanningssenter i Nord. As a performer he has contributed to countless concerts both within Norway and abroad. He also works as a composer

Linde Mothes

Linde Mothes is educated as a church musician in Germany (Dresden, Weimar) and France (Paris). She has worked as a church musician in Berlin and as a university college lecturer in organ and choral conducting in Halle and Dresden.
She appreciates the diversity the profession of church musician offers and she has played many organ recitals in Europe and China. She has also worked as a choral conductor and has performed a host of choral concerts, both a cappella and oratorio.
She has been cantor at the Arctic Cathedral since 2008.

Ole Bolås

Ole Bolås grew up in Sande in Vestfold. He made his debut in Oslo in 1988. He studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo from 1989-95 where his piano professors included Liv Glaser, Jens Harald Bratlie, Eva Knardahl and Lazar Berman. He completed his Master of Arts in June, 1995. Ole has held concerts in countries including China, Germany, France, Poland and Lithuania, as well as countless performances in Norway. In October 2008 he took up the position of Assistant Professor in piano at the Music Conservatory in Tromsø.

Mimas og Ragnar Rasmussen

The university choir Mimas was founded in the autumn of 2000 by Ragnar Rasmussen and is run in cooperation with the University of Tromsø. The choir currently has about 35 members. The repertoire spans folk music, jazz, church music, ballads and major classical and contemporary works. As the university choir, Mimas sings at official events at the University of Tromsø. Mimas is also the placement and examination choir for students of choral conducting.

Grønnåsen kirkekor

This 16-strong choir of singing enthusiasts marks church life and the concert arena in Tromsø. In recent years the choir has organised a host of concerts with a repertoire spanning from contemporary church music and folk tunes to Gregorian and oratorical works. The choir collaborates with many professional musicians and soloists from within Norway and abroad. Through its twin choir in Steinbach-Hallenberg, Thüringen (Germany), the choir has reaped international experience. The choir’s current conductor is Ragnhild Strauman.

Johan Máhtte Skum

Johan Máhtte Skum (b. 1988) is a yoiker, singer and organist from Kautokeino. He has since 2008 studied church music at the University of Tromsø. He has participated in the Sámi Grand Prix twice (2003 and 2006) and also taken part in two recordings (Nuorra Juoigit, 2003 and Sálmmat Sámis, 2005). Since 2009 he has repeatedly appeared as yoiker and singer with musicians in the county of Nordland. In addition, he is an active freelancer in Norway.