Samling: DET NORSKE JENTEKOR girls choir

The Norwegian Girls Choir is a choir with proud traditions as an independent continuation of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s girl choir, which was established in 1947. In addition to singing the core repertoire for equal voices, the choir has always specialized in contemporary music and folk music. Several of Norway’s foremost composers have created music for it, and few other choirs get to premier so many pieces. The choir also shows its strong social and global engagement through its repertoire and choice of locations, and it is also initiating many genre-eliminating musical encounters. It has released 5 albums and its recording Folketoner from 2018 was Grammy-nominated for Best Immersive Album. 

The Norwegian Girls Choir has always been, and still is, an important institution in Norwegian cultural life, and has fostered a large number of professional singers and artists, many of them well known. The choir’s main ambition is to act as a choir school enabling girls to develop independent musicianship and to reach a level of musical expression that touches themselves as much as their audiences. This gives them, as musicians, understanding, experience and curiosity – qualities which serve them well in their professional lives as singers, and in other capacities contributing to cultural life.