Duo with lute player Fredrik Bock.

Fredrik Bock and I have worked together since 2003 and are driven by our love for music and our deep attraction towards the simple, honest and down to earth.

In our different programs we explore our limits and search for new kinds of authenticity:
What do pop songs and baroque lute songs have in common?
How crazy are the French airs de cours?
Would I be dead now, if I was born in 1610?
CD “Love songs re-spelled” will be released in December 2010 on LAWO classics.
www.holmertz-bock.com

Paulus Barokk
Paulus Barokk was formed in 2008 by baroque violin player Laima Olsson. The group is based in Oslo, but the members (all of them very nice, fun and talented) come from all over Europe and enjoy playing both baroque and contemporary music.

Tjære være treklang
This is a concert piece commissioned by The Norwegian Concerts. In one of the old wooden churches (“Stavkirke”) in Norway, old fragments of music from the medieval ages have been found. These fragments will here meet Norwegian folk music, hymns, bagpipes, tramp organ, “hardingfela”, guitar and percussion.
Elisabeth Vatn (Bagpipe, tramp organ), Harald Skullerud (percussion) and Anders Røine
(guitar, hardingfela).
CD will be released in the spring 2011. Grappa

Kenneth Karlsson…
…is one of the best pianists in Norway (even if he’s Swedish) and I have had the honour of singing with him on many occasions with Cikada and Cikada duo (with percussionist Bjørn Rabben). We often drink coffee together and talk about life, and in the breaks we play and sing George Crumb, Carola Bauckholt, Francis Poulenc or Richard Strauss. Preferably with a metronome.
www.karlsson-holmertz-com

Utomjordiska (=”Extraterrestrial”) is a free, free, free baroque opera group, founded in Gothenburg in 1985 and lead by Andreas Edlund and Per Buhre since 2006. With unorthodox productions of French baroque operas as its speciality this is a crazy group: I’m extremely happy to have worked with them and they are a joy for the audience. A collection of superb musicians and singers, united with a desire that opera can be something more than just opera, that baroque music is something more than dusty but nice songs and that it’s okay to laugh and cry and marvel.
Current production is Armide, with enchanting music by Lully.

Ophelia and others…
Composer Erik Dæhlin and I explore the black sides of womanhood, sound, vocal technique, different body parts, light and dark…

Collaborations with Åke Parmerud and Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen/Gro Løvdahl are coming…