Johan Tobias Bergstrøm

Johan Tobias Bergstrøm has established himself as a recording artist, composer, and performing musician on the Norwegian music scene for over a decade. As the guitarist and driving force behind Touché Monet, he has led extensive tours and concert series, performing more than 300 shows. He has released five albums on the renowned label Hot Club Records, along with two solo albums on Losen Records. The seeds for Bergstrøm’s solo work were planted in 2020 during a performance for the Norwegian and Jordanian royal families in Jordan. Immersed in the region’s rich musical landscape—where the sound of the oud filled the air—he felt compelled to explore the meeting point between musical traditions. This moment of inspiration led him to blend his Django Reinhardt‑inspired style with the Arabic melodies he had just encountered. The albums Nova (2024) and Stella (2025) reflect this fusion, drawing further influence from artists’ featured in the mix such as Richard Bona, Bill Connors, Jacob Young, and the Esbjörn Svensson Trio.

Jo Berger Myhre

Norwegian bassist, composer and producer Jo Berger Myhre continues his exploration of uncanny sonic landscapes with Penta, his third album for RareNoise Records, to be released on May 15th, 2026. The new studio work follows the critically acclaimed Unheimlich Manoeuvre (2021) and the live document Live Manoeuvres (2025), completing a creative arc that began with solo bass experiments and evolved through years of live performance.

Over the past decade Myhre has established himself as a distinctive voice in contemporary Nordic music, moving fluidly between projects ranging from the electro-acoustic trio Splashgirl to collaborations with artists such as Nils Petter Molvær, Ólafur Björn Ólafsson of Sigur Rós, Mariam The Believer, Jenny Hval & Susanna, Geir Sundstøl and the ensemble Finland.
With Penta, he refines the musical language that emerged from Unheimlich Manoeuvre and matured on stage during the extensive touring that followed.

The album features the same quartet that brought that music to life in concert: Morten Qvenild on piano and synthesizers, Kaveh Mahmudiyan on Iranian percussion instruments tombak and daf, and Jo David Meyer Lysne on acoustic guitars, resonating strings and self-made motorised installations. The deep musical understanding developed through years of performances together informs every moment of Penta, resulting in an ensemble sound that balances precision, openness and improvisational energy.

Dina Konradsen (RADSEN)

Dina Konradsen (RADSEN) has a passion for dance and a desire to bring cultures together, with a Northern Norwegian pulse at its core.

Inspired by artists like REZZ, Billie Eilish, and Portishead, she aims to breathe new life into an old Northern Norwegian flame, incorporating elements of folk music into her live set, which she performs on a laptop with live vocals and contributions from other instruments. The result is a fusion of electronic genres that, combined with Northern Norwegian folk tunes and songs, creates a bridge between history and everyday life.

Recently returning from performing alongside a silent film in Bo’Ness/Scotland, Dina will host upcoming events at her concert series Folkemølje in Tromsø with GANGAR and Ingrid Lingaas Fossum. She’s DJing at numerous festivals in 2026 including Førdefestivalen and Heimfestivalen, among many others.

1816

1816 is back with a new album at Kirkelig Kulturverksted!

The band 1816 takes its name from the "year without summer" - and explores the contrasts between darkness and light, vulnerability and hope. The music moves elegantly between chamber music, jazz and alternative pop, with naked lyrics and a strong expression.

The upcoming release follows a debut album that received rave reviews.

Behind 1816 are Wenche Losnegård and Audun Ellingsen - both are experienced musicians and composers with backgrounds in Norwegian jazz, improvisation, film and dance. Together they create a captivating universe of acoustic chamber pop.

With them are the British cellist Gregor Riddell (Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool)
and Erik Nylander (Ola Kvernberg etc.) on drums and percussion.

Okay Kaya

Kaya Wilkins is a Norwegian-American musician, composer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Oslo, known for recording and performing under the moniker Okay Kaya. Her work spans music, performance, and visual art, often exploring the stranger details of being a person.

Wilkins has released several critically acclaimed albums, including Both (2018), Watch This Liquid Pour Itself (2020)—which won the 2021 Spellemann Award for Best Indie/Alternative—Surviving Is the New Living (2020), The Incompatible Okay Kaya(2021), and SAP (2022). Her latest album, Oh My God, That’s So Me (2024), was praised by Pitchfork for its “compassionate and closely focused observations about contemporary states of distraction and detachment.”

She has collaborated with a wide range of artists including Baba Stiltz, Onyx Collective, Anne Imhof, Porches, King Krule, Deem Spencer, L’Rain, Austin Lee, and Adinah Dancyger.

As a visual artist, Wilkins has exhibited work at Melk (Oslo, 2022), Entrance (New York, 2022), and K4 Gallery (Oslo, 2021), and held a solo exhibition titled SANDPLAY at Etage Projects (Copenhagen, 2021). Her performance work has been featured at MUNCH (Oslo, 2021), Musée d’Orsay (Paris, 2022), and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, 2024).

Monoswezi

Hope Masike – vocals, mbira, and percussion
Calu Tsemane – vocals, guitar, percussion/paper
Hallvard Godal – saxophone, clarinet, and mellotron
Putte Johander – bass
Erik Nylander – drums and percussion

Monoswezi is a band with musicians originally from Mozambique, Norway, Sweden, and Zimbabwe, based in Norway. With a shared passion for African musical traditions in general, and the music of Zimbabwe and Mozambique in particular, Monoswezi seeks a musical expression that combines respect for tradition with various influences and experiences, including jazz and improvised music.

In early March 2026, they will release their sixth album, “Tsevu”.

André Roligheten

André Roligheten is a Norwegian jazz musician who is known for his personal musical playing style and his ability to explore different genres and forms of expression. He has a strong presence in a number of collaborations with everything from Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity, Team Hegdal, Friends & Neighbors, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Susanne Sundfør, to his own release «André Roligheten - Marbles" from 2023.

Roligheten has studied improvisation and composition at the "jazzlinja" NTNU in Trondheim and the Norwegian Academy of Music, and worked for 15 years with the duo Albatrosh together with pianist Eyolf Dale who was named "young jazz musicians of the year 2008", and won the European Jazz Competition in 2009.

As a musician and composer, Roligheten has performed at some of the largest music festivals in Norway, Europe and the USA, released over 20 albums with completely or partly his own compositions, and has collaborated with a number of renowned musicians and artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire, Ståle Storløkken, Jarle Bernhoft, Joshua Redman, Røyksopp and Father John Misty, to name a few.

Roligheten won the Norwegian Grammy for "Vol.3" with Team Hegdal in 2015, and has been nominated a number of times with Friends & Neighbors and Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity/Supersonic Orchestra.

DJ Synne

A familiar face behind the decks at iconic venues like Jæger and The Villa, DJ Synne knows exactly how to make the floor vibrate. Since 2018, she’s been crafting her signature “Funk It Up” mixtape series on SoundCloud — blending deep rhythms, punchy basslines, and irresistible energy.

Bare Folk

Bergen-born Bare Folk’s songs belong to the folk ballad tradition, with clear elements of jazz and folk music. With harmonic, original melodies, the atmosphere ranges from the melancholic to the life-affirming. Inspired by the greats of Norwegian (and Bergen) folk music, Bare Folk revitalises the connection between lyrics and music.

Katarina Protsack

Katarina Protsack is the Canadian-born, London-based Founder & Creative Director of slow fashion brand Blue Nude. She designs from visual cues and auditory interpretations of landscapes from around the world.

Von August

Von August is a Norwegian alternative electronic pop trio consisting of Klara Lucie Østrem Ossum, Live Haugejorden Schau, and Simon Nenseter Nome.

Von August invites listeners into a sonic universe that blends warmth and coldness, softness and industrial textures – always with a distinct Nordic sensibility. Their music is woven together with acoustic instruments, modular synths, vocal harmonies, and drum machines. The soundscapes are deep, dreamy, and adventurous, creating a sense of traversing a landscape where reality and fantasy seamlessly merge.

Since their debut in 2018, they have released several singles and the album Blåøyd (2021), which was also released in a remixed version in collaboration with Norwegian electronic artists (Niilas, Fochs Koshka, and Maud). They have received praise from NRK P3 (2021) for their contribution to the new wave of Norwegian-language pop and from Ballade.no (2022) for their influence on the Norwegian electronic scene. The trio has performed on numerous stages across Norway and has spent the past three years honing their sound and shaping their second album, Samme hvor du går, set for release in spring 2025. In this upcoming album, they aim to capture the essence of human relationships, platonic love, and feelings (or the lack thereof) about community - both in words and sound.

“We could name-drop artists like FKA Twigs and James Blake, but mostly to convey the idea that the simple strength of ballads, the surprises of contemporary music, and electronic exploration can merge into compelling alloys. Perhaps not surprising, but it's often a hallmark of quality when music resists being placed in a single category. ”
- Siri Narverud Moen (Ballade)

“Heartfelt Norwegian-language female vocal harmonies layered upon each other, adorned with dreamy synths. Philosophical, sincere lyrics paired with captivating electronic soundscapes that invite a relaxed escape from reality rather than longing for closed dance floors. (...) Von August are excellent representatives of this new wave. ”
- Eskil Olaf Vestre (NRK P3)

Erlend Mokkelbost

Erlend Mokkelbost is a Norwegian producer, composer, musician and music supervisor based in Oslo, Norway.

He has been working with music all his life, starting his career in the hardcore/punk band JR Ewing at the age of 18, followed by work with the avantgarde metalband KILLL and later Montée. Today he’s focusing on his solo project Fuori, as well as the collaborative projects OKIOK and Candura.

In 2011 he started producing albums, the first one being the Norwegian band Rumble In Rhodos´ acclaimed album "Signs Of Fervent Devotion", along with Anders Tjore.
Since then he has produced an array of albums and singles of different bands and artists, working within a wide variety of genres.

The list of artists Mokkelbost has worked with includes Honningbarna, Jonas Alaska, Atlanter, Silja Sol, han gaiden, Bow To Each Other, No. 4, Aiming For Enrike, Bendik, Torsion Beat, Virkelig, Mari Boine, Jaa9 & Onkl P, Rohey, Billie Van, Morudes, Bendik, Magnus Bechmann, Hawkon, IVIE, Kildaphew, Tellef Raabe, The Cheaters,  Anna Of The North and many more.

He makes yearly commissioned works for the famous club Parkteatret in Oslo with a total of 6 different pieces: Vol. 1 - ARP, Vol. 2 - ONENESS and Vol. 3 - HEXAGON, Vol. 4 - HYDRA, Vol. 5 - ORIXA and Vol. 6 - SOLARA.

As a film composer, he’s done both full length films and short, as well as documentary and drama series.

As a music supervisor, he has worked with acclaimed director Joachim Trier on 2 films - including the American movie "Louder Than Bombs" (where he also composed some music for the score) and the Norwegian film "Thelma". He has also been a music supervisor on the films "Welcome To Norway" and “Hope” (with Stellan Skarsgård.

He runs the label Pekula Records together with Jansen Records, featuring artists like Aiming For Enrike, Amgala Temple, HVCKER and more.

Sigor Rós

Today, Sigur Rós are pleased to announce the EU/UK leg of their unique world tour that sees them collaborating with orchestras, bringing their latest album ÁTTA to life alongside favourites from their extensive catalogue. This tour will see them playing in some of the world's most iconic orchestral venues. London’s Royal Albert Hall, Rome’s Sala Santa Cecilia, Paris’ Salle Playel, Brussels’ Bozar and the Konzerthaus in Vienna are just some of the storied venues included. 

This tour arrives off the back of their acclaimed 2023 album, ÁTTA, as well as last year’s sold-out orchestral tour across Europe and two recently completed sold-out tours in North America. The 2024/2025 shows will be the last chance for fans to see this orchestral performance from Sigur Rós, making these dates another important milestone in their career. 2025 will continue to be a special year for the band, with their seminal album Takk reaching its 20th anniversary. 

Playing at the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in their career, Sigur Rós will be joined by and performing with the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO) and all shows will be conducted by Robert Ames.  

Other orchestras the band will be collaborating with in 2025 include the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, Resound Collective, Brisbane Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and more.

In 2023, Sigur Rós set upon having orchestral accompaniment as part of their tours, with the band wanting to put a spotlight on a series of phenomenal orchestras around the world, not just themselves. Having reunited with keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson in 2022, the members played alongside full orchestras in grand concert halls across Europe and North America. The band enlisted the Wordless Music Orchestra for their Stateside dates and were described as “an articulation of beauty almost beyond comprehension” (Dallas Observer), the performances are simultaneously as expressive and indescribable as Hopelandic, all a testament to the timeless pull of Sigur Rós.  

The new tour comes in the wake of a fruitful era for the band’s fans. At the start of the new decade, the band dove deep into their archives for long-anticipated works. They first released Odin’s Raven Magic (2020), an orchestral album originally made nearly two decades prior, and later reissued ( ) for its 20th anniversary in 2022. Their first collection of new material in nearly a decade, ÁTTA (2023) leans heavily towards the orchestral, featuring contributions from the London Contemporary Orchestra. With close to ten million albums sold, Sigur Rós stands as one of the most ambitious and acclaimed bands of recent times, whose new artistic endeavours only points towards an expansive, exciting future.

Engegård Quartet

Arvin Engegård - Violin
Laurra Custodio Sabas - Violin
Juliet Jopling - Viola
Jan Clemens Carlsen - Violoncello

The Engegård Quartet has been directing and hosting the classical minifestival “1-2-3…” since 2016 when they started with 1-2-3 Schumann. Formed under the midnight sun in Lofoten in 2005, the Engegård Quartet has rapidly become one of Norway’s most sought after ensembles. Their bold, fresh interpretations of the classical repertoire combined with a deep attachment to their Scandinavian roots has attracted international acclaim, and inspired some innovative partnerships and programming.

Støttekonsert for Gaza - OK Sessions // Nasjonal Jazzscene

SVS is proud to present a unique mix compiled by a flux of extraordinary artists performing at a Oslo's Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene tomorrow evening. All tickets sales for this event support Redd Barna's cause to raise funds for vulnerable children currently suffering in Gaza. We hope the unifying medium of music offers a fitting opportunity to bring people together at this challenging time.

Performers:

Trio Djup (Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen, Inga Grytås Byrkjeland, Torun Sæter Stavseng), Bugge Wesseltoft, Javid Afsari Rad, Gregor Riddell, Shana Mathai, Ibou Cissokho, Harpreet Bansal, Sanyu

Damata

Torstein Slåen - Guitar

Karl Erik Horndalsveen - Bass

Ola Øverby - Drums


Damata is the Norwegian Instrumental Jazz variant of the adjective story. While the narrative remains consistent throughout the music, the shapes and forms it might take might vary extremely. Sometimes like an acoustic trio playing electronic music, other times like a shoegaze band, other times like an ambient orchestra - the gist of Damata remains in it's colourful music filled with impulsivity, humour, calmness, and a general joy of playing. Damata came out with their debut album 'What's Damata' in 2021 and their follow up 'Vannsklie' in 2023 whilst they currently labour away in the studio making their third album.

Tom Roger Aadland

Rock poet Tom Roger Aadland is one of Norway’s most critically acclaimed artists and songwriters the last years. His new album Skyer has received brilliant reviews. “Tom Roger Aadland is a musical treasure” hi-fi magazine Stereo+ writes. The Wilhelmsen describes the album as “vivid, honest, beautiful, strong and personal”, giving it six stars out of six. Øystein Rønning, music reviewer for Dagbladet, claims that the album is “rock solid” and “with brilliant lyrics”, calling it “an album that will be on many lists when the album of the year is to be voted”.

Aadland is also known for his translations and interpretations of Bob Dylan’s songs, with Blondt i blondt voted album of the year by Norwegian national radio show Norsk på norsk. He has also made his mark as a lyricist for Norwegian country rock favourites Hellbillies, folk rock pioneers Vamp and pop singer Marion Ravn. As a songwriter he is marked by a rare ability to write strong lyrics coupled with haunting melodies, and several of his songs have become radio hits. Norwegian listeners will recognise titles such as “Alle dei i ei”, “Like til mi dør” and “Min beste ven på ein dårleg dag”.

Tom Roger Aadland has been described as a “great lyricist” and an “exceptional tunesmith”, but he is also a solid and energetic performer with a unique ability to convey the content of a song. This year he celebrates twenty years as a performing artist, and his jubilee tour will take him all over Norway, from Halden to Hammerfest. A new album project is already in the making.

Gro-Marthe Dickson

Gro-Marthe Dickson (b. 1984) is a Norwegian singer with a distinct originality and an unmistakable presence in her musicianship. On an almost constant search for new endeavors, she is not a stranger to take on and explore unknown musical paths.

At the moment she is writing new music while also debuting her own jazz quartet. Her main projects besides these projects includes the Cole Porter in Norwegian; the jazz band D-lovely (AMP Music & Records 2019 and 2021), the vocal improvisation ensemble Oslo14 (Losen Records 2018, 2019, NOR CD 2016) and the big band show "Sing ‘n’ Swing”.

Louisa Palmi

Louisa Palmi, an innovative composer specializing in electroacoustic music, seamlessly blends electronics with 3D sound tech to craft immersive soundscapes. Her work explores transforming the sense of space through manipulation of sound. From subtle textures to sweeping movements, her compositions span a spectrum of contrasts. In a short time, Palmi's progressive pieces have gained recognition across European venues. Honored as "Young Artist" at the 2023 Northern Norway Festival, her impact resonates.

Shana Mathai

Shana Mathai has been singing and writing songs her whole adult life. Since 2018 these energies have gone into making kids/family music with her band, Mikrokosmos. Mellow Mathai is her solo project. Mellow Mathai's first two singles will be coming out early next year, aiming to infuse chilly Norwegians with a boost of warmth, soul and groove.