Musical ambitions: Oslo Bach choir and Iver Kleive carries on the big oratorium tradition. Iver Kleive, the members of the choir and our collaboration partners perform each year several of the significant sacred works. Through this work we develop an artistic, economic and commercial fundament for working with even more challenging tasks. The soloists and orchestra in the large performances are mainly professional musicians.

		Händel: Messias Tuesday, December 8th 2009 at 19:30, Helgerud church, Bærum Wednesday, December 9th 2009 at 19:30, Fagerborg church, Oslo Soprano: Ann-Helen Moen Alto: Marianne E. Andersen Tenor: Rolf Sostmann Bass: Yngve Søberg Conductor: Iver Kleive Oslo Symfony orchestra Oslo Bach-choir Tickets 250 kr at the entrance Ticket reservation: Send SMS til 2440 with code 0812 eller 0912 + number of tickets
		Iver Kleive: Juleevangeliet (Christmas oratorio) Sunday, December 13th 2009 at 19:00, Helgerud church, Bærum Medvirkende: Jon Eikemo, reader Anne Gravir Klykken soprano Yngve Søberg, baryton Iver Kleive, Conductor and organ player Oslo Bach-choir Tickets 200 kr at the entrance Ticket reservation: Send SMS til 2440 with code 1312 + number of tickets

Iver Kleive established the choir in 1988, and has since then been our conductor and art director.
The last 15 years the choir has performed a number of great works, but Bach has always played a prominent part in our repertoire.
The choir has cooperated with a number of our leading professional singers, musicians and actors.

Johann Sebastian Bach:
”Christmas oratorio”
”Mass in B minor”
”Magnificat”
several cantatas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
”Requiem”
”Grosse Messe” (Mass in C minor)
Iver Kleive
”Christmas oratorio”
”Requiem”
Max Reger
”Der 100 psalm”
”Requiem”

David Monrad Johansen ”Voluspaa”
Johan Kvandal ”Ibsen cantata”
Mendelssohn ”Elias”
Kjell Mørk Karlsen ”Sinfonia da Requiem”
Puccini ”Missa di Gloria”

His background for working with choirs comes from the legendary
Münchener Bachchor, with conductor Karl Richter, where he sang 1st tenor for 3 years.

Iver Kleive made his debut as organ player in Oslo in 1978, and has since then had several solo concerts. He has been soloist with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and was pianist in the Kringkastingsorkesteret (orchestra for Norwegian broadcasting) for ten years. Iver Kleive has also been organ soloist at all our chirch music festivals. He has been soloist with Kringkastingsorkesteret, Stavanger symphony orhcestra and Trondheim symphony orchestra.
In 1992 he was hired as synthesizer soloist with Oslo Philharmonic Orkestra and conductor Mariss Janson in a weeks Tour in Great Britain.

Iver Kleive has in addition to his work as organ player also worked in many different genres.
From 1972 until today he has contributed in about 200 recordings as studio musician, composer and arranger.
Kleive describes himself as an improvising musician who likes to change between classical and pop, folk music and Jazz. The organ and church are his main instrument and fundament, though.

Iver Kleive har been a member of the jury at several award ceremonys for the Spellemann award (norwegian ”Grammy”). He also has made a significant contribute to enlighten our national folk music tradition. The last ten years he has recorded several albums with the Norwegian folk singer Sondre Bratland. He has also cooperated with the the Brazilian percussion player Nana Vasconcelos.

Several of our leading soloists have been accompanied by Iver Kleive: i.e. Arve Tellefsen, Arve Tellefsen, Karin Krog, Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal. In 1990 he made a tour covering all USA together with Ole Edvard Antonsen.
He has played with Carola in Sweden, Bjørn Eidsvåg in Moscow, Ytre Suløen Jassensemble in New Orleans,
Sigmund Groven in Scotland, USA and the Caribbiean Ilands, with Knut Reiersrud in India, Pakistan and South-Afrika.