Meet the mentors
Mentors 2023-2024
Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk
Mentor for Marthe Nødtvedt SkjæggestadCarl-Viggo Hølmebakk's architectural office was established in Kabelvåg in 1990, and since 1992 it has been based at Bislet in Oslo. Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk is the artisticdirector and CEO of the office, which currently has a permanent staff of five architects. The office'swork is widely published in Norwegian and international specialistliteratureandit is represented at a number of exhibitions at home and abroad. Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk has received many of the most important architecture awards in Norway (among others the Grosch Medal, Houens Fonds Diplom, Treprisen, Betongtavlen and Statens Byggeskikkspris) and has been nominated four times for the Mies van der Rohe Prize, which is considered Europe's most important architecture prize. Several of Hølmebakk's works have been acquired by the National Museum and the German Architecture Museum (DAM). The office wishes to maintain an independent and high professional profile, where the individual construction task is treated as special. In addition to participating in various teams and professional groups, the office has stable working relationships with other advisers and players in the construction industry. The office has expertise in all relevant work tools in the architectural profession.
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Clara Andrada
Mentor for Maria OseClara Andrada is one of the leading flute players of her generation. She is solo flutist with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. She is principal flutist with renowned ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic. She has performed with world-class conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink, K.Petrenko, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Philippe Herreweghe among others. As a soloist, she has played with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, Estonian National Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, and many major orchestras in Spain, with conductors including Neeme Järvi, Jaime Martín, Michal Nesterowicz and Lucas Macías. Clara Andrada is also passionate about performing chamber music. She has been part of the Hindemith Quintet and has collaborated with ensembles such as Trio Arbós, Quinteto Miró, Plural Ensemble and Dúo Neopercusión to name a few, as well as with soloists such as Sir András Schiff, Janine Jansen, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Martin Fröst and Emmanuel Forehead. Clara Andrada has given master classes at the Royal College of Music (London), Buchmann Mehta School of Music (Tel Aviv), "Conservatorio Superior de Música" The Musicians of the Basque Country, "Conservatorio Superior de Aragón", Lucerne School of Music, She has been a woodwind teacher for EUYO (European Union Youth Orchestra), JONDE (National Youth Spanish Orchestra), JONC (National Youth Orchestra of Barcelona) and JOSCyL (Youth Symphony Orchestra of Castilla and León). In 2013 she recorded her first album (Editorial Tritó), with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León and Alejandro Posada, and performed concertos for flute and orchestra by Arturo Márquez, Xavier Montsalvatge and Joan Albert Amargós. In 2018, she was awarded the prize "Ojo crítico¨ from the Spanish national radio. RNE) "in recognition of her communication skills, her brilliant career, her future plans and for being a musical reference", according to the jury.
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Ed Atkins
Mentor for Mark TholanderEd Atkins lives and works in Copenhagen. Recent institutional solo exhibitions include ‘Refuse’ at Tank, Shanghai (2022); ‘Get Life / Love’s Work’ at the New Museum, New York (2021); Kunsthaus Bregenz and K21 Düsseldorf (both 2019); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; MMK Frankfurt; DHC/ART, Montréal (all 2017); Castello di Rivoli and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; The Kitchen, New York; SMK, Copenhagen (all 2016); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015), The Serpentine Gallery, London (2014); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2013); and MoMA PS1 (2012). Atkins was included in the 56th and 58th Venice Biennales, the 13th Lyon Biennial, and Performa 13 and 19. An anthology of Ed’s texts, ‘A Primer for Cadavers’, was published by Fitzcarraldo in 2016, and an extensive artist’s monograph from Skira was released in 2017. An epic soliloquy, ‘Old Food’, was published by Fitzcarraldo in 2019, and a book of Atkins’ drawings for children was published by Koenig Books in 2021. ‘Sorcerer’, co-written and -directed with Steven Zultanski, was presented at Teater Revolver in Copenhagen in March, 2022. A film version of the play was presented at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, in 2022 as well as at Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2023. In 2025, Ed will present his largest solo show to date at Tate Britain.
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Elisabeth Øymo
Mentor for Marthe Nødtvedt SkjæggestadElisabeth Øymo has been a partner in Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk AS (now Hølmebakk Øymo) since 2017. Øymo has been an employee of the company since she graduated from AHO in 2010 and has been central to the development and follow-up of the Vøringsfossen project. Øymo is a senior architect with 13 years' experience. Her core competence is architectural design, with task understanding, design, project development, implementation and follow-up on the construction site. She has experience in designing small and medium-sized building and landscape projects, for both public and private clients.
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Erlend Skomsvoll
Mentor for Veslemøy NarvesenErlend Skomsvoll is an award-winning tone artist who expresses himself in many different ways, as a composer, pianist, ensemble leader, producer, pedagogue and lyricist. He has toured in Norway, Europe, Asia and the USA, and collaborated within a number of different artistic expressions. Skomsvoll is educated in jazz and contemporary music, but does not profess to a particular genre or style. He is driven by openness, playfulness, curiosity, kindness and courage, and constantly seeks to explore new paths in music and artistic expression, also as a mentor, speaker and teacher. Since the early 90s, he has established himself as an exceptional interpreter of other people's music, as an arranger and orchestra leader, and since then he has collaborated with Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Kaiser's Orchestra, Mathias Eick, Marius Neset, Arve Tellefsen, The Norwegian Wind Ensemble , the Broadcasting Orchestra, the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, among many others. He has contributed greatly to the renowned group Come Shine where he acted as pianist and central musical arranger. Currently he dedicates all his time and creativity to the piano with his trio that blends a deep understanding of jazz with classical styles. Erlend Skomsvoll has received a number of prizes, scholarships and awards, including the Spellemann Prize in jazz and classical, the Lindemans Prize, the Ella Prize, the Buddy Prize (Norwegian jazz's highest award).
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Gitte Ørskou
Mentor for Julian JuhlinGitte Ørskou (b. 1971) is a Danish art historian, curator and museum director. Since 2019 she has been director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden's national gallery for modern and contemporary art. From 2009 she was director at Kunsten - Museum of Modern Art Aalborg. Ørskou was chief curator at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum from 2001 to 2009, and she has been chairman of the board of the Statens Kunstfond. She holds positions on several boards and has been responsible for the Danish representation at the Venice Biennale on several occasions. She is also the author of a number of articles and books on modern and contemporary art.
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Haeju Kim
Mentor for Mark TholanderHaeju Kim is senior curator at the Singapore Art Museum and curator of the Singapore pavilion, in the Venice Biennale 2024. She is the former artistic director of the Busan Biennale 2022, and was the former deputy director of the Art Sonje Center from 2017 to 2021. Kim has experience in curating a series of contemporary art exhibitions and performance programs across various disciplines. Her curatorial approach emphasizes consideration of the body, time and memory as key elements, while engaging with themes such as ecological perspectives, locality and its planetary connection through her research.
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Kristin Hjort Iñao
Mentor for Ida HaugenKristin Hjort Inao is educated at the Statens Balletthøgskole in Oslo (now: KHIO), with a BA in classical ballet and pedagogy. She was a dancer in Carte Blanche - Norway's national company for contemporary dance in the period from 1996-98, where she danced in works choreographed by Nordic choreographers such as Jo Strømgren, Ina Christel Johannessen, Ingun Bjørnsgaard and Ørjan Andersson. In the period 1998-2007, Kristin was a dancer in the Batsheva Dance Company under the artistic direction of Ohad Nahari where she toured extensively internationally and danced prominent roles in works choreographed by Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, Jiri Kylián, William Forsythe and Sharon Eyal. Kristin was appointed associate professor of contemporary dance at KHIO in 2008, and has solid teaching experience both nationally and internationally. As a choreographer, Kristin has created works for, among others, a Carte Blanche – Norway's national company for contemporary dance and in theater productions at the National Theatre, Trøndelag Teater and Rogaland Theatre. Kristin Hjort Inao has been audition leader for Nagelhus Schia Productions since 2019, where she is also responsible for various artistic projects, audition planning and competence development.
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Marianna Shirinyan
Mentor for Maria OseArmenian-born Marianna Shirinyan is one of the most creative and sought-after pianists in Europe today. Her lively and virtuosic style makes her in demand, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She has received Danmarks Radio's prestigious P2 award for her contribution to Danish music life and the critic's award from the United Critics in Denmark. In 2022, she won Carl and Anne Marie Nielsen's honorary award. She is a frequent guest at a number of international music festivals, among them Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Bodensee Festival, Schwetzinger Festspiele, MDR Summer Festival, and Festspillene i Bergen. Marianna has earned a reputation as a leading pianist of her generation through solo performances with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestras, Potsdammer Kammerakademie, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchester Philharmonique de Nice, among others. She has also had the pleasure of collaborating with conductors such as Lawrence Foster, Zoltan Kocsis, Antonello Manacorda, Jun Märkl, Daniel Raiskin, Lan Shui, Thomas Søndergård, Krysztof Urbanski and Joshua Weilerstein to name a few.
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Margreth Olin
Mentor for Azar Ebrahimi and Uno Alexander VesjeMargreth Olin (1970) is a Norwegian director and producer with a large cinema audience. She has made 13 films, which have received critical acclaim, participated in a number of festivals abroad and won several Norwegian and international awards. Margreth has managed to catalyze important dialogues about the themes her films highlight. She has personally received 26 honorary awards for her commitment and focus on human rights. Her filmography includes Soft Hands (Yamagata 1999), My Body (Tribeca 2002), EFA-nominated Ungdommens Råskap (2004), Engelen (TIFF 2010), De Andre (IDFA 2012), Cathedrals of Culture, Oslo Opera House (Berlinale 2013 ). Olin was one of six directors in the Wim Wenders series Cathedrals of Culture, among others Wim Wenders and Robert Redford. Her film Mannen fra Snåsa (2016) is the second most watched documentary in Norwegian cinema. Her previous film Selvportrett (DOC NYC 2020), which she co-directed with Espen Wallin & Katja Høgset, won seven awards internationally. Olin was one of the recipients of the Chicken & Egg Award 2022. She was awarded the Anders Jahres Kulturpris in September 2022 together with Joachim Trier, Deeyah Khan and Nils Gaup, which is Norway's biggest honor for outstanding cultural efforts. Olin's new full-length documentary Fedrelandet premiered in 2023 and was chosen by the Norwegian Oscar committee to be Norway's Oscar candidate in the category of best international film.
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Tanja Orning
Tanja Orning is an experimental contemporary cellist and composer with projects such as Cellotronics (solo), ensembles such as Asamisimasa (Spellemann 2012 and 2015), Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, and duossuch as Helga&Tanja, Kyberia and Dr:OX. A common thread in Orning's practice is close collaboration with composers to create newworks. She has commissioned and premiered over 150 works by composers in Norway and abroad. Orning has a strong interest in interdisciplinary projects and has collaboratedwith writers and poets, choreographers, dancers and dramaturgs, and is currently relevant with the piece "Beveget cellist" played at Ultimafestivalen 2023. She is an associateprofessor at the Norwegian Academy of Music and was employed as Professor of Classical Music Improvisation at UiA from 2020-2023.
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Mentors 2021-2022
Anna Efraimsson
Mentor for Inés BelliFew can boast the experience, insight and network of contacts as theater director Anna Efraimsson at MDT (the former Moderna Dansteatern) in Stockholm. She has a background as a performer, manager, teacher, dramaturg and producer, she has an education in cultural studies from Stockholm University, theater studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and curation at Wesleyan University in the USA, and has worked for, among others, the Konstnärsnämnden's international dance program, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, the association Mossutställningar and the Perfect Performance festival.
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Andrew Murrey
Mentor for Margrete Skretting BergsetAs founder and managing director of the music company Luft Recordings, Andrew Murray takes responsibility for the entire value chain of modern music production, from creation to distribution. He manages artists' careers as a manager, he records their music in his sound studio, and he releases it on his own label. Not least Murray has extensive personal experience as a performer: He started working professionally as a guitarist already in his teens, has toured the UK and, among other things, performed at the Glastonbury festival. As a producer and remixer, Murray has ended up on BBC Radio One playlists as well as on the main advert for one of the world's best-selling games, GTA V. He has also worked with prestigious and pioneering labels such as Rough Trade and 4AD.
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Aurora Aspen
Mentor for Ahmed UmarAspen began her career at the Tate, the British art institution. From 2008 to 2014, she worked with communication strategies for the global gallery Haunch of Venison, and at the same time she established her own consultancy for clients in New York, London and Oslo. After moving to Norway, Aspen took on a role at OCA where she coordinated major projects such as the 2015 Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the Thinking at the Edge of the World Conference in Svalbard. From 2016 she was director of OSL Contemporary Gallery in Oslo, until 2022 when she was appointed director of the Queen Sonja Print Award. Aspen has a long history as a consultant for prominent museums such as MUNCH, Kode Bergen, Kistefos and Wanås Konst.
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Bengi Unsal
Mentor for Sonoko Miriam WeldeBengi Unsal has been director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London since March 2022. She came there from the Southbank Center art complex in London, where she was head of the contemporary music initiative. The Southbank Center is Britain's largest and one of the metropolis' most visited tourist attractions with 200 concerts and performances a year; here she led the acclaimed festival Meltdown, where legends such as Grace Jones, Nile Rodgers and Robert Smith from The Cure have been curators, and here she has developed several arenas for emerging young talent. Before coming to the Southbank Centre, Unsal co-founded clubs and record labels in her hometown of Istanbul and worked with music on radio and television. She is a sought-after DJ, a board member of the charity Music Venue Trust and in 2018 was on the music industry network She Said So's list of the 100 most important players paving new paths in the industry.
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Bugge Wesseltoft
Mentor for Torje Fagertun SpildePianist, composer and producer Bugge Wesseltoft was already a sought-after musician, and well-established in the stable of the legendary record company ECM when he began experimenting with electronic rhythms and effects in jazz music in the 90s. Soon he became one of the leading figures for an urban and modern branch of the jazz tree that is characterized by a desire to explore and a kinship to funk and house. Wesseltoft is also behind the record company Jazzland Recordings, runs his own sound studio and has released several best-selling and award-winning albums, in addition to contributing to numerous record releases with Norwegian musicians both in and outside of jazz.
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Christian Lollike
Mentor for Heiki RiipinenThe term "Danish theatre's troublemaker" has stuck with Christian Lollike, but it hardly covers the playwright's and director's ability to challenge the existing and invite new considerations, always driven by the artist's drive to understand social trends and political change processes in society. This is how Lollike has worked with both performing arts and installations across theatres, public spaces and virtual platforms, and created an extensive production of theater texts that are performed both in and outside of Europe. Lollike has received a number of awards, including several Reumert awards. He is formerly artistic director at the Sort/Hvid theater in Copenhagen.
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Iram Haq
Mentor for Catharina Vu and Sonoko Miriam WeldeIram Haq is a Norwegian-Pakistani director, actor and filmmaker. She has made a name for herself with both short films and longer feature films, has won a number of awards and honors, and is trained as an art director from Westerdal's advertising school. Haq started directing in 2004 with the film "Trofast". In 2009, she wrote and directed the film "Skylappjenta", which, among other things, was selected for the Sundance Film Festival. Her breakthrough came in 2013 with the film "Jeg er din / I am yours", for which she has received several awards. Her latest feature film "Hva vil folk si/what will people say" won, among other things, the People's critics award in 2018.
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Jasper Parrott
Mentor for Birgitta OftestadJasper Parrott has been a manager of musicians, singers, composers and conductors since the 60s, and is one of the founders of HarrisonParrott – the company that has created a new school of talent development in classical music, characterized by close collaboration and exchange of ideas. Anne Sofie von Otter, Vladimir Ashekanzi and Krzysztof Penderecki are among the performers Jasper Parrott has worked with. He has also had a central role in the establishment of, and acted as a consultant for, several music festivals.
Kjell Erik Killi Olsen
Mentor for Idun BaltzersenSculptor, painter and graphic artist Kjell Erik Killi Olsen has been one of our most famous and distinctive artists for 20 years. He has had exhibited all over the world - from the Stenersen Museum and Henie Onstad Art Center to galleries in New York, Rome, Milan and Copenhagen. Among others, he has been purchased by the National Gallery, the Gothenburg Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Campinas, Brazil. In 1989 he represented Norway at the Saõ Paolo Biennale, where his work "Salamandernatten" - recognized as a major work in Norwegian art from the 80s - was seen by 600,000 people. Many also associate Killi Olsen with the sculpture "Mannen fra Havet", which stands in Bø in Vesterålen as part of Skulpturlandskap Nordland.
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Marit Moum Aune
Mentor for Thea Sofie Loch NæssMarit Moum Aune is one of Norway's most productive and versatile directors, through her work in film, TV, theater and dance. Since the 80s, she has directed theater and dance at the leading art institutions in Norway, including the critically acclaimed "Ghosts" at Den Norske Opera & Ballett. She has directed the TV series "The Struggle for Existence" (2014-2015) and "Harry & Charles" (2009) and has won a number of awards such as the Hedda Prize, the Scandinavian National Theater Prize and the Liv Ullmann Prize.
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Sarah Greenwood
Mentor for Mie Gjersen HansenIn the film world, Sarah Greenwood is someone who is called when there are really high ambitions for the visual expression. After working in both theater and television, where she designed sets for the BBC's popular music program "Later... with Jools Holland", Greenwood made the leap to film in the 90s and received her first Oscar nomination with Joe Wright's "Pride and Prejudice" in 2005. Later there have been five more such nominations - including for the Winston Churchill film "Darkest Hour" and for "Anna Karenina", which also brought her a BAFTA award. This autumn, she is current with "Cyrano", the film in which "Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage portrays Cyrano de Bergerac.
Mentors 2019-2020
Marit Moum Aune
Mentor for Liv Barbosa BladMarit Moum Aune is one of Norway's most productive and versatile directors, through her work in film, TV, theater and dance. Since the 80s, she has directed theater and dance at the leading art institutions in Norway, including the critically acclaimed "Ghosts" at Den Norske Opera & Ballett. She has directed the TV series "The Struggle for Existence" (2014-2015) and "Harry & Charles" (2009) and has won a number of awards such as the Hedda Prize, the Scandinavian National Theater Prize and the Liv Ullmann Prize.
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Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
Mentor for Nora AugustiniusIngrid Bolsø Berdal is an actress and a singer, graduated from Statens teaterhøgskole in 2004. The same year she was employed at Det Norske Teatret, and received the Hedda prize for best debutant in 2005. She has played in a number of films. She had the lead role in "Sønner" (2006) and "Free game" (2006). For the latter, she won Amanda for Best Actress. Recently, she played Sonja Wigert in "Spionen" (2019), and had the lead role in TV2's "Hexejakt" (2020). Bolsø Berdal has made an international career, with roles such as Atalanta in the Hollywood film "Hercules" (2014), and Armistice in the popular HBO series "Westworld" (2016-2018).
Cesar Diaz
Mentor for Alexander TurpinCésar Díaz was born in Guatemala in 1978. After studying in Mexico and Belgium, he joined the screenwriting workshop at the FEMIS Film School in Paris. He has been working as a fiction and documentary film editor for more than ten years. He has also directed the short documentary films Semillas de Cenizas, which was screened in about twenty international film festivals, and Territorio Liberado, which won the IMCINE Award in Mexico. Nuestras Madres (Our Mothers) is his first feature film.
Henriette Steensrup
Henriette Steensrup is an actress, comedian, writer and presenter. Throughout her multifaceted career, she has had leading roles in several popular films and TV series. From the worldwide success "Lilyhammer" and the comedy "A Good Number Two", to the upcoming Netflix drama "Ragnarok" and the award-winning film "Children". She has also presided over a number of prestigious award ceremonies, including the Gullruten and the Amanda Prize on several occasions. Many people know her best through her many comedic characters. She won the Comedy Award in 2014 for the year's female stage comedian for the performance "En fær værra som en er" - a role she later repeated in the TV2 series of the same name in 2019.
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Vibeke Tandberg
Mentor for Aslak Aune NygårdVibeke Tandberg (1967) is an artist and writer. She has a bachelor's degree in art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen, and a master's degree from the University of Photography in Gothenburg. Her work is represented in public collections nationally and internationally, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Astrup Fearnley Museum and the National Museum, Oslo, the Guggenheim Collection and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among others. She made her debut as an author in 2012 with the novel Bejing Duck and has later published several novels and a collection of essays at Forlaget Oktober, Oslo.
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Jason Haaheim
Mentor for David TimmeJason Haaheim was appointed Principal Timpanist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 2013. In addition to appearances at New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, he can be seen and heard with the MET Orchestra on television and international radio, among others. He is affiliated with the NYU Steinhardt School of Music and the Bard Conservatory of Music, and is the founder of the Northland Timpani Summit.
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Bjorn Nessjø
Mentor for Oddrun Lilja JonsdottirBjørn Nessjø studied music at Norges Lærerhøyskole (NTNU), and began his career as a music producer in 1974 in Trondheim, where he also built Nidaros Studio (1978). He has produced a number of Norwegian and foreign artists in various genres. In 1988, he received the Spellemann prize for "extraordinary efforts in Norwegian music production". He started his own management company in 2003 and has also produced various TV concerts with Norwegian and international artists for an international market.
Wolfgang Plagge
Mentor for Ingrid Neset and Oddrun Lilja JonsdottirWolfgang Plagge is a pianist and composer with a sensational piano debut already as a twelve-year-old in 1972. He has won several national and international awards. Sought-after chamber musician and soloist. Extensive output as a composer ranging from liturgical music to symphonic works, chamber music and solo piano music. He was the artistic director of the Talent School at Bærum municipal cultural school for 23 years. In 2009 he was appointed as professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music and at the University College in Nord-Trøndelag.
Eskil Vogt
Mentor for Ernst De GeerEskil Vogt is a renowned Norwegian screenwriter and director, with background from the national French film school "La Fémis" in Paris. After writing scripts for a number of award-winning films, he made his directorial debut with the feature film "Blind" (2014). The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it won The World Cinema Screenwriting Award. The film subsequently received the Europa Cinemas Label at the Berlinale (Best European Film in the Panorama section), and has gone on to pick up more than 20 awards worldwide. In addition to writing scripts for his own films, Vogt has had a long and close collaboration with director Joachim Trier as co-writer on the feature films "Reprise" (2006), "Oslo, 31 August" (2011), "Louder Than Bombs" (2015) and "Thelma" (2017).
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Anne Katrine Dolven
Mentor for Fredrik LongvaA K Dolven lives and works in Oslo and Lofoten. She is a multi-media artist, and works with drawing, photography, performance, installation film and sound. Persistent themes are natural forces and human sensitivity. Her works alternate between the monumental and the minimal, and the universal and the intimate. A K Dolven has been exhibited and purchased by a number of important institutions nationally and internationally.
Snelle Hall
Mentor for Aslak Aune Nygård and Sebastian Biong in 2019Snelle Ingrid Hall is a dancer and theater scholar educated at the Statens Ballethøgskole (now KHiO) and the University of Oslo. She has worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer since the early 90s and produces performances within Siri & Snelle productions, most recently Collapsing Distance, premiere Dansens Hus 2018. She writes for the Norwegian Shakespeare magazine and has contributed to several anthologies. She works as an associate professor at the Department of Dance, Oslo Academy of Arts.
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Jon Refsdal Moe
Mentor for Carl Martin EggesbøJon Refsdal Moe is a professor of dramaturgy at Stockholm's Dramatiska Högskola, and former theater manager at Black Box Theatre. He is also a writer, and his latest release is "Rant 2" (2019).
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Camilla Spidsøe
Mentor for Nora Elise AugustiniusCamilla Spidsøe is a dancer. From 2003 to 2013 she was employed by Carte Blanche, Norway's company for contemporary dance. When she returned to the National Ballet in 2013 after ten years she was one of Norway's leading contemporary dancers. Here she went straight into leading roles in Johannessen's "Scheherazade", Proietto's "Cygne" and Ekman's "A Swan Lake" - in addition to prominent parts in ballets such as Strømgren's "Suite" and Kylián's "Gods and Dogs" and "Soldiers' Mas ».
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Joakim Trier
Mentor for Liv Barbosa BladJoakim Trier is an internationally recognized director and screenwriter, who is educated at the National Film & TV School in England. His debut, "Reprise", won three Amanda awards in 2007, and was Norway's Oscar candidate. "Oslo, August 31" participated in "Un Certain Regard" at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, and was nominated for the French César Award for Best Foreign Film in 2013. His first English-language film, Louder Than Bombs (2015), participated in main program during Cannes Film Festival 2015, and won the Nordic Council's Film Prize. "Thelma" (2017) has won a number of national and international awards and was nominated for the Nordic Council's Film Award. His feature film The World's Worst Person (2021) had its world premiere in Cannes, where lead actress Renate Reinsve won the award for Best Female Actress. The film also received two Oscar nominations and two BAFTA nominations, and has become Norway's best-visited film internationally of all time.
Mentors 2018
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
Mentor for Ida Elise BrochIngrid Bolsø Berdal is an actress and singer, graduated from Statens teaterhøgskole in 2004. The same year she was employed at Det Norske Teatret, and received the Hedda prize for best debutant in 2005. She has played in a number of films, and among other things had the lead role in "Sønner" (2006) and "Free game" (2006). For the latter, she won Amanda for Best Actress. Recently, she played Sonja Wigert in "Spionen" (2019), and had the lead role in TV2's "Hexejakt" (2020). Bolsø Berdal has made an international career, with roles such as Atalanta in the Hollywood film "Hercules" (2014), and Armistice in the popular HBO series "Westworld" (2016-2018).
Bjørn Nessjø
Mentor for Edvard Munch Ensemble and Ole Christian HaagenrudBjørn Nessjø studied music at Norges Lærerhøyskole (NTNU), and began his career as a music producer in 1974 in Trondheim, where he also built Nidaros Studio (1978). He has produced a number of Norwegian and foreign artists in various genres. In 1988, he received the Spellemann prize for "extraordinary efforts in Norwegian music production". He started his own management company in 2003 and has also produced various TV concerts with Norwegian and international artists for an international market.
Helle Le Fevre
Mentor for Aasne Vaa GreibrokkHelle le Fevre graduated as an editor from The National Film & Television School in England in 2003. Among other things, she has edited "Unrelated" (winner of the Fipresci Critic's Award), "Archipelago" (nominated for Best Film at the London Film Festival) and "Exhibition » by British instructor Joanna Hogg. In 2014, she received the Norwegian Film Association's professional award for best clip for the short film "Amazone" by Marianne Ulrichsen. Helle was nominated for the Amanda prize (2016) for best clip for her work on Aasne Vaa Greibrokk's film "Alt det Vakre".
Marie Blokhus
Mentor for Grete Sofie Borud NybakkenMarie Blokes is an actress, graduated from the Statens teaterhøgskole in 2010. She was engaged the same year at Det norske teatret where she is now a permanent employee. She is also a member of the free performing arts company Asklepios Hane. She was nominated for the Hedda Prize in 2013 and won the Hedda Prize in 2016 for the role of Allis in "Bird Tribunal". Nominated for the Amanda prize in 2013 and nominated for the Gullruten in 2014. She won the Kanon prize in 2014 as best female actor for the lead role in the film "Jag etter vind".
Peter Herresthal
Mentor for Amalie StalheimPeter Herresthal is an award-winning violinist known for his interpretations of modern violin concertos with orchestras and ensembles worldwide. In Norway, he has won three Spellemannspriser, the Musikkritikerprisen and in 2002 he was named performer of the year by the Norwegian Composers Association. Herresthal is a professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music and visiting professor at the Royal College of Music in London and the NYU Steinhard School in New York.
Thomas Robsahm
Mentor for Simon TillasThomas Robsahm is a producer and director and has won five Amanda prizes and the Nordic Council's Film Prize. He has been a producer for a number of directors, including Joachim Trier, Margreth Olin, Maria Sødahl, Solveig Melkeraaen and Unni Straume.
Stine Nilsen
Mentor for Mariama SlåttøyStine Nilsen has worked as a freelance dancer and educator since she studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Movement and Dance, London from 1993 to 1997. In 2005 she took an MA at Middlesex University, UK. From 2007 to 2017 Stine was artistic co-director of Candoco Dance Company, and since September 2017 she is now Artistic Director and Festival Director of CODA Oslo International Dance Festival.
Mentors 2017
Tommy Wirkola
Mentor for Ida Elise BrochTommy Wirkola is a director, screenwriter and actor who has studied media at the University of Finnmark, film studies at the University of Lillehammer and has a bachelor's degree in film and television at Bond University in Australia. He has made a name for himself as a film director both nationally and internationally since his debut "Kill Buljo: The Movie" in 2007, including the Hollywood productions "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" and "What Happened to Monday".
Per Boye Hansen
Mentor for the Edvard Munch EnsemblePer Boye Hansen was educated at the music school in Essen in Germany. He was the artistic director of the Oslo Summer Opera in 1983, and was director's assistant at the opera in Cologne 1983–1988 and, in parallel, he was engaged for several years as the director's assistant at the festivals in Salzburg. In 1990–2000 he ran Oslo Arts Management before in 2000 he was employed at the Komische Oper in Berlin. Director of the Bergen Festival 2005–2012, in parallel with involvement in the Komische Oper Berlin and the opera in Zurich. Member of a number of boards, councils, juries and award committees. Opera director at The Norwegian Opera 2012–2017.
Suzanne Osten
Mentor for Aasne Vaa GreibrokkSuzanne Osten is a playwrighter, director, professor and honorary doctorate at Lund University. She debuted with her first feature film in 1982 and has since directed 10 feature films. She established the theater Unga Klara in Stockholm in 1975, where she is still in the management team. She is a professor of directing at the Dramatiska Institute 1996– 2009. She is also a member of the Swedish Research Council and has written several books.
Bjørn Olaf Johannessen
Mentor for Simon TillaasBjørn Olaf Johanessen graduated as a civil engineer in marine technology but works as a playwright and screenwriter for film, theater and TV. He has written scripts for several Norwegian and international feature films for, among others, directors Wim Wenders, Patrice Toye, Bobbie Peers and Erik Skjoldbjærg. He was also one of three writers behind the popular NRK series "Kampen for tilverven".
Adi Salant
Mentor for Mariama SlåttøyAdi Salant was the artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company together with dancer and choreographer Ohad Naharin. She was associated with Batsheva as a dancer in 1993–2001 and was then a freelance dancer and choreographer, including a career as a choreographer and dancer in Denmark, before she was again associated with Batsheva in 2009. She has taught dance companies and held a number of workshops and courses worldwide.