Einar Selvik is a Norwegian composer and musician. He is also the creative head behind Wardruna, a project focusing on musical interpretations of different Old Norse and Nordic traditions.
Thanks to extensive research and use of a wide range of old Nordic instruments and lyrics placed in a contemporary soundscape, Einar Selvik has moved musical genre boundaries as well as given a new voice to the thoughts and tools of the past.
Wardruna has gained worldwide recognition for its innovative musical expression, and Einar Selvik has even provided music for the popular TV-series Vikings and has recently been revealed as the composer writing the game’s original songs for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, alongside the game’s composers Sarah Schachner and Jesper Kyd.
Together with Ivar Bjørnson, Einar Selvik was also the architect of the multi-year, critically acclaimed festival project Nordvegen.
During this year’s Bergen International Festival, Einar Selvik will take part in the opening ceremony on May 20 together with an Orchestra interpreting one of his most iconic songs “Voluspá” as well as play a full concert in the medieval Royal Feasting hall Håkonshallen in Bergen on Thursday May 21 where he will perform songs over the span of his career including the new Song “Grà”!
The streams will take place as follows:
Opening ceremony: May 20, 8.30pm CET (4.30am May 21 Sydney)
Einar Selvik: May 21, 9.00pm CET (5am May 22 in Sydney)
Join us here: https://www.fib.no/en/einarselvik
Einar Selvik will perform with The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Norwegian vocal ensemble The Edvard Grieg Kor on May 20.
On May 21 he will be joined by numerous outstanding artists including members of Enslaved, Ivar Bjornson & Einar Selvik and of course Lindy-Fay Hella of Wardruna!
The concert will take us on a musical journey outside Wardruna’s usually massive soundscape, and instead present a more stripped-down and direct expression where song and instruments such as Kravik-lyre, Bowed Lyre and Hardanger-fiddle play key roles.’
