SONaR Ellen Sejersted Bødtker

• 1 Vere Meininga 28:20
• 2 Det Var Mjukt 04:09
• 3 Dette Blanke No 25:42
• Total Runtime 58:11

Info for SONaR

The music is insistent, powerful and existential, bringing out the dramatic qualities of the instrument. In the cadenza the electric harp with all its effects carries on a dialogue with its acoustic counterpart, as if the new and the ancient world were melting together; a Mongolian shepherd's song winds its way between the strings.

SONaR - A celestial sonic world of harps, strings and angels. Composed and performed specially for the surround sound format.

vere meininga – concerto for harp and strings det var mjukt – for soprano and harp dette blanke no – concerto for harp and angels

'SONaR is a sound signal sent out to create an echo from whatever it may encounter and thus reveal the unknown. I think we all send our symbolic sonars into physical and spiritual space, in a constant search for meaning. At least I do. And my life and music represent both this child's sonars and the universe's ever-unfolding answer.' - Magnar Åm

Magnar Åm / Ellen Sejersted Bødtker – SONaR

Magnar Åm, composition
Ellen Sejersted Bødtker, electric & acoustic harps
Hildegunn Riise, recitation
Berit Norbakken Solset, soprano

Oslo Kammersolister: Jon Gjesme & Atle Sponberg, violins Catherine Bullock & Jon Sønstebø, violas
Øystein Sonstad & Anne Brit Sævig Årdal, cellos

Grex Vocalis; Carl Høgset, conductor

Multichannel 5.1 SURROUND: 96/24 FLAC

Harpist Ellen Sejersted Bødtker is a graduate of the Norwegian State Academy of Music, the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, and Indiana University. She is well known in Norway, where she performs regularly with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. She is also a member of the Oslo Sinfonietta and BIT 20, with whom she plays contemporary music.

Ms Sejersted Bødtker has given numerous solo concerts, and has also performed as soloist in Scandinavian Orchestras. In November 2001 she gave a solo concert at St Martins-in the Fields in London which attended by Their Royal Highnesses, The King and Queen of Norway. In December of the same year, she was invited to give a solo concert at a luncheon celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize.

She has also had her own radio and TV-programs, featuring French and Spanish music. In 1997 she founded the flute and harp-duo Bella Polaris, and she was an active teacher in Oslo.

Booklet for SONaR