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The Nowegian pianist, Mathias Susaas Halvorsen, studied with Professor Jiri Hlinka (2006-2010) in Oslo and with Professor Gerald Fauth (2011-2013) in Leipzig.
In 2008 Mathias Halvorsen founded the Podium Festival in Haugesund together with flutist Guro Pettersen. The festival was held for the 10th time in 2017. In 2009 he discovered the manuscript of Piano Concerto No. 5 by the Norwegian composer Halfdan Cleve at the National Library in Oslo and performed it with the Lithuania State Symphony and conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius. Since 2010 he has been performing concerts in complete darkness as a founding member of the critically acclaimed trio LightsOut. The last years he has performed regularly alongside Peaches in the duo show Peaches Christ Superstar. The production has visited many festivals such as Theater der Welt in Mannheim and Yoko Ono’s Meltdown in London. He has also done several dance and theatre pieces with director and choreographer Laurent Chetouane. One of these, the comedy‚ Den Stundesløse‘ featured Mathias‘ acting debut at the National Theatre in Oslo, Norway. In 2017 Mathias premiered his first opera Dracula, commissioned and performed by the Haugesund Chamber Opera.
Mathias Halvorsen currently lives in Reykjavik with his girlfriend and his little son. He performs regularly in lots of weird places, doing anything from chamber music and solo concerts to composition and exciting genre defying projects. From 2018 to 2020, he is a member of the German fellowship program #bebeethoven. |
