conference: Ole Bull Celebration

Specialists on string instruments from all over the world will gather in the city for the International Festival in Bergen, and our instrument exhibition in Permanenten (the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art) will feature lectures by renowned violin experts.

Registration within May, the 1st 2010 to Prof. Harald Herresthal

The seminar is free of charge.

Program:
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Friday 4/6
09.45
Øystein Birkeland, Opening

10.00
Harald Herresthal: Ole Bull and his violins

11.00
John Dillworth: Guarneri del Jesu

12.00
François Denis: The late Guarneri del Gesú's

13.00
Lunch

14.00
Concert with Henning Kraggerud & Christian Ihle Hadlan

16.00
Ole Bull´s Villa at Valestrand. A meeting with Ole Bull´s great-great-grand child Knut Hendriksen. Music by Elbjørg og Ragnhild Hemsing (violin and Hardanger fiddle)

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Saturday 5/6
09.45
Peter Bidulph, chairman

10.00
Harald Herresthal: Ole Bull and Paganini

10.30
Bruce Carlson, Alberto Giordano and Carlo Chiesa: Paganini’s «Il Canone»

11.30
Brigitte Brandmair: Optical and chemical results of the varnish-analyses of two Guarneri instruments.

12.30
Discussion. Peter Herresthal, chairman

13.00
Lunch

14.00
Concert with Oslo String Quartett

16.30
Discussion, Jacob von der Lippe, chairman

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Sunday 6/6

09.45
Jacob von der Lippe, chairman

10.00
Rudolf Hopfner: Ole Bull’s «Schatzskammergeige» and the collection of Ambras.

11.00
Flavio Dassenno: The myth and the results of the last research on Bull’s Gasparo da Salò.

11.30
Harald Herresthal: The musical life of Bull’s Gasparo da Salò.

12.00
Discussion, Jacob von der Lippe, chairman

13.00

Lunch

14.00