Olav Chris Henriksen
Olav Chris
Henriksen is one of America's leading lutenists. He has been acclaimed
throughout Europe and North America as a soloist on lute, theorbo and early
guitars with the Boston Camerata, Handel and Haydn Society, Mark Morris
Dance Company, Baroque Orchestra, Les Idées Heureuses, and Chanticleer.
His many performance credits include the Aston Magna Academy, Tanglewood,
the Boston Early Music Festival, Soirées Musicales du Château
de Versailles, summer seminars for the Lute Society of America, and a concert
tour of his native Norway sponsored by the Norwegian government as part
of the Rikskonsert program. In March 1998 he joined the Utah Opera,
under the direction of Martin Pearlman, in their production of Monteverdi's
l'Incoronazione de Poppea, and in May 1998 he performed with Music
of the Baroque (Chicago) in Cesti's opera Orontea. Mr. Henriksen
holds the soloist diploma from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel,
Switzerland. He has recorded for Nonesuch, Erato, Simax, Telarc and Decca,
and he teaches at the BostonConservatory and the University of Southern
Maine. He has lectured at HarvardUniversity, Cambridge; Musikkhögskolen,
Oslo; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City; and
Aston Magna Academy, Rutgers University. The Boston Herald praised
his playing of Dowland and Kapsberger, saying, "Henriksen was able to dazzle
with his virtuosity inthe fantastical figurations of John Dowland's solo
Fantasy for lute and Kapsberger's similarly brilliant Toccata
prima."
Contact:
Olav Chris Henriksen
University of Southern Maine School
of Music
37 College Avenue
Gorham, ME 04038
207-780-5265
music@usm.maine.edu
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