Performers / performing bodies
The MIC’s music industry directory contains information on performing bodies. You may search by name or category, such as performing bodies (Orchestra, Opera, Ballet, Ensembles etc.)
Articles from our online magazine and the now defunct Listen to Norway magazine are linked up to the contact information on the performing bodies and individuals.
If you want to find a recording with Norwegian performers within the genre classical/contemporary, please search our catalogue.
Composers
Norwegian composers are organised in the Norwegian Society of Composers or in the popular composer’s union: NOPA - Norwegian Society of Composers and Lyricists. We also have contact information on singular composers – this also includes biographies and articles on each composer. If you are searching for works and recordings, please search in our Catalogue.
Music Festivals
MIC can offer contact information to the most important Norwegian music festivals, in addition to a festival calendar.
Venues
Norway has a large number of venues, from big halls such as the Oslo Concert Hall, the Grieg Hall in Bergen, the Olav Hall in Trondheim and Stavanger Concert Hall to small clubs. Many of the regional venues are organised in a network called Norsk Kulturhusnettverk. The MIC calendar presents important concert events featuring Norwegian music.
Music education
Norway has programmes for music teaching and education from babies up to a diploma level.
MIC can offer direct contact information to conservatories and universities with a music education as well as folk high schools. Check our music education section.
Music business
MIC has registered the most important Norwegian music publishers, record companies, distributors, antiquarians etc.
Norwegian publishers are gathered in the Norwegian Music Publishers’ Associations, while the Music Export Norway is the record companies’ co-operation body.
Funding
Most Norwegian schemes for funding are reserved for Norwegians. Foreign applicants have some possibilities. Please contact us if you need information about this.
Performing Rights
The Norwegian music scene has three organisations dealing with rights: TONO - The Norwegian Performing Rights Society, managing the rights of the composers, lyricists and music publishers, while NCB manages of the technical rights (recordings, film etc.) of the same group. GRAMO manages the recording rights of Norwegian musicians and artists.
The main music historical museums are the Ringve Museum in Trondheim and the Edvard Grieg Museum in Bergen. The Grieg Collection in the Bergen Public Library is the main archive for Edvard Grieg. Soprano Kirsten Flagstad has her own museum at Hamar.
Music research
The most important institutions for musicology in Norway are the music departments of the universities in Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen and the Norwegian State Academy of Music, the Norwegian Jazz Archives and the Norwegian Archives for Folk and Popular Songs. The Norwegian musicologists’ organisation Norsk Musikkforskerlag edits the yearbook Studia Musicologica Norvegica.
