Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival
8. - 13. juli 2024
The artistic director of the Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival 2024 is, as usual, Arvid Engegård. More information about the festival and the anniversary will come during the autumn. Also follow the festival on Facebook for more information.
Program
The program for the Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival is published in January.
Artists
The artists for the Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival will soon be ready. Get to know them better here.
Festival pass
Festival passes for the Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival go on sale in December.
Artistic Director:
Arvid Engegård
Arvid Engegård is the artistic director of the Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival. He comes from Bodø, but lives in Oslo today. He was educated in Trondheim, New York and Salzburg, where he had the legendary Sandor Vegh as a teacher.
Arvid has all his life had a special interest in chamber music, and was for 10 years primarius for the Orlando Quartet in Holland.
Own quartet
During the festival’s first edition in 2004, he met musicians that he immediately established in a new quartet, the Engegård Quartet. This ensemble today enjoys international recognition and is in great demand throughout the Nordic region.
Since its establishment, the quartet has been the closest one can call a “house quartet” to the festival, and is always central to the program. Through the establishment of the Oslo Quartet Series, the Engegård Quartet has contributed to the string quartet as an ensemble gaining a fresh lease of life.
Today, Engegård is also a widely used conductor, where he often gets assignments within the Viennese classical repertoire, a repertoire he masters better than anyone else in Norway.
