Eivind Gullberg Jensen

Conductor

Home
Reviews
Features

“Eivind Gullberg Jensen – bookmark that name – displays a fine sensitivity for balance and rhythm.”
(Norman Lebrecht)

Artistic & General Director: Bergen National Opera

Equally at home on the concert platform as the opera house, Eivind Gullberg Jensen’s 2019/20 season highlights include conducting Puccini’s Tosca with Opera Rouen, Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with Finnish National Opera, and his debut with Minnesota and Odense Symphony orchestras, and Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife. Gullberg Jensen also conducts the Oslo Philharmonic, Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos with Katia and Marielle Labeque and Noord Nederlands Orchestra, and Seville Symphony Orchestra with Leticia Moreno. He returns to Metropolitana Lisbon, Tampere and Poznan philharmonic orchestras, and Ulster Orchestra. In 2021, Gullberg Jensen commences his new position as Artistic & General Director of Bergen National Opera.

This follows a highly successful 2018/19 season, in which Eivind conducted concerts with the Hamburger Symphoniker, and debuted with Vancouver and Oregon symphony orchestras and the North Carolina Symphony. He returned to Wiener Staatsoper for Dvořák’s Rusalka and Opera de Lille for Mozart’s Die Zauberflote. Eivind also conducted the world premiere of Waiting, a dramatised concert based on Peer Gynt by Calixto Bieito and Karl Ove Knausgård as part of the Bergen International Festival.

Gullberg Jensen has previously conducted orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Royal Stockholm and Netherlands Radio philharmonic orchestras, Orchestra at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Kristiansand Symfoniorkester, Orchestre de Paris, WDRSinfonieorchester, and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Over recent seasons, he has worked with soloists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Truls Mørk, Alice Sara Ott, Helene Grimaud, Gautier Capuçon, Sol Gabetta, Alban Gerhardt, Hilary Hahn, Gabriela Montero, Emmanuel Pahud, Yefim Bronfman, Alexander Toradze, Vadim Repin, Viktoria Mullova, Renaud Capuçon, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Mari Eriksmoen, Charlotte Hellekant, Albert Dohmen.

Gallery

Eivind Gullberg Jensen - Sibelius: Symphony No.1 (Excerpt) © Berliner Philharmoniker / Digital Concert Hall

“Eivind Gullberg Jensen conducts the Symphoniker Hamburg with that mixture of intelligence and sense of sound, of elegance and fire, that the much-heard gigantic D Minor Symphony begins to speak at once — not from a distant early 19^th century, but straight from the here and now.”

(Welt, January 2019)

“He has all the qualities for an excellent opera conductor: an authoritative conducting technique, the power to lead an orchestra tightly and multifaceted to drive the music forward and draw delicate moods as well as to savour dramatic climaxes. And he leads the singers with empathy, breathing with them.”

(Karlheinz Roschitz, KRONEN ZEITUNG, November 2018)

“Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen made the piece flow with his graceful gestures, indeed it was extraordinary to see such angular almost aggressive music expressed so smoothly.”

(Bachtrack, November 2016)

“It was a joyride: taut, together, highly effective orchestral playing under the confident and relaxed baton of Eivind Gullberg Jensen, with soloist Lugansky clearly a master of his art.”

(Edinburgh49, November 2016)

“As for young Mr Jensen, I’d be thrilled if he was invited back after his culminating and climactic direction on Saturday, which conjured from the RSNO a glorious account of Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony, quivering with volatility from top to tail.”

(Herald Scotland, November 2016)

“Jensen shaped it [Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 3] with overall fluidity, yet ensured that every phrase was purposefully sculpted, making for a performance of freshness and vigour. ”

(John Allison, The Telegraph, November 2016)

“…it was hard to be disappointed with a concert containing music-making of such consistent vitality under the very dynamic leadership from young Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen.”

(Simon Holden, Backtrack, May 2015)