Stavanger Symphony Orchestra are performing Grader av Hvitt, the monodrama for orchestra, narrator & electronic sounds to a text by Johan Harstad. Lisa Kristin Ellingsen has the main role. Kyrre Heldal Karlsen and Carsten Aniksdal do the visuals. Christian Eggen is conducting.

Nils Henrik Asheim is featured festival composer at Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter 2014.
Ensemble Nordlys performs the piano trio "Game of Three" at the opening concert of the festival. Festival leader Christine Prym on violin, Øystein Sonstad on cello and Kristoffer Hyldig on piano.

Nils Henrik Asheim's new opera for children, commissioned by the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, "Stormen - forteljinga om Miranda og Ferdinand", had its premiere on June 12, 2014 and was played for 8 almost sold-out houses. 

This recording is a by-product of Mazurka – Remaking Chopin, my collaborative project with Gjertrud’s Gypsy Orchestra, which was released as a CD in 2010. On it we explored Frédéric Chopin’s Mazurkas and created new versions with traditional dance music from Central Europe as our most important point of reference.

I'm back from long and sunny summer's stay in the Valdres valley, where I combined mountain walks with working sessions. The project on my desk is "Stormen" - the Tempest - a children's opera commissioned by the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, due to be performed in June 2014. Rune Belsvik wrote the libretto, inspired by Shakespeare's drama.

One of my best memories from 2012 is the trip to Arkhangelsk and Naryan Mar, Russia, to perform "Travelling Songs". And this takes me right to the saddest memory - the loss of my close collaborator through almost 20 years, singer Anne-Lise Berntsen. She was the mastermind of this project, so typical for her, that created a meeting between singers and musicians from two countries. Anne-Lise passed away on November 3rd.

September 14, Kitchen Orchestra teamed up with video wizard Andreas Paleologos, under the artistic direction of Nils Henrik Asheim, to inaugurate Stavanger Concert Hall 1 day before the official gala - opening the spaces for the public with gags, sounds, performances, 31 musicians continuously swapping roles and instruments,  all in a 40 minutes guided walk. LYDSAFARI.

I have the enormous honour to be appointed as the organist of Stavanger Concert Hall. The new Stavanger Konserthus will open mid-September, after which the organ needs to go through a period of intonation, tuning and adjustments before its inauguration - probably early 2013. My job starts September 1st and includes taking care of the instrument, playing it, and curating the programme.