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Lars-Erik ter Jung Mail to: |
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He studied the violin with Leif Jørgensen in Oslo, Max Rostal
in Switzerland and Camilla Wicks in the USA. Since 1998 ter Jung has taken intensive conducting studies with
Prof. Jorma Panula, participating in master classes in Finland (Vaasa
City Orchestra), Russia (Moscow Symphony Orchestra) and Romania
(Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra), and with conductor George Hurst
and his assistant Denise Ham at the Canford School in England, where
he has been participating in 5 courses since 1998, and ter Jung
is now extensively building up his career as a conductor. In 2000 he conducted the internationally acknowledged BIT20 Ensemble
at The Bergen International Festival and on tour to Darmstadt, Germany.
In 2001 he conducted this ensemble with choir and soloists in St.
Martin-in-the-Fields in London in Arne Nordheim's "Descending".
In 2002 ter Jung conducted BIT20 Ensemble at the broadcasted inauguration
ceremony of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, and premiered
and recorded "Odyssé" by Norwegian composer Knut
Vaage, which was recently released on a CD and DVD presenting the
city of Bergen. Since 1992 he is the artistic director of Telemark Chamber Orchestra,
a regionally based string ensemble, whose profile is to promote
new music along with performing the standard repertoire. During
a ten years period, ter Jung and Telemark Chamber Orchestra has
premiered twelve commissions of various genres. Three of these works,
"Nostos" by Bjørn Kruse, which ter Jung recorded,
as soloist and leader, let out on EP in 2003 (on Fabra / Afontibus),
"Nyslått" by Henrik Ødegaard with soloists
Per Anders Buen Garnås and Torgeir Straand on hardanger fiddle
and "Omriss" by Gisle Kverndokk with the chamber choir
"Cor" (choir-master Torbjørn Dyrud) are featured
on a new CD with TKO which will be released in June this year. A
new commission by renowned composer Antonio Bibalo will be presented
by ter Jung and TKO in the fall 2005. Since 1994 he has been a full time freelancer, a choice he made
to be more free in his priority of musical activity, and he has
initiated and administrated a number of projects and concerts. In
1995 he established the string sextet "ter Jung sextet",
with whom he has premiered six new works by the Norwegian composers
Knut Vaage, Rune Rebne, Frank Nordensten, Magnar Åm, Jostein
Stalheim and Nils Henrik Asheim; the latter work was premiered at
the Oslo Chamber Music Festival in 2001. Four of these works are
included on the CD "Hexa" which was released in 2000.
ter Jung's collaboration with the guitar player Thomas Kjekstad
has led to the appearance of five new works for violin and guitar,
among them "Twitter Machine" by Mark Adderley. These pieces
are performed on the highly praised CD "Twitter Machine",
which was released in February 2004 (on Fabra / Afontibus). In spring 2004 a new piece for string orchestra by ter Jung was
performed by Sunnhordland Chamber Orchestra. During the 1980s ter Jung performed several concerts with the
eminent Norwegian soloists Truls Mørk, Leif Ove Andsnes and
Lars Anders Tomter. Other musical collaborations led to two CDs
in the early 1990s, "Dan fagraste viso pao joræ"
(1993), a collection of ter Jung's adoptions of Geirr Tveitt's Hardingtonar
for violin and guitar, with guitar player Njål Vindenes, and,
in 1995, "Quasi una Sonata", a collaboration with pianist
Einar Henning Smebye, presenting 20th century music for violin and
piano.
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