BIS celebrates 10 years with two-day festival
Bergen Improstorband celebrates 10 years of free improvised music! The two-day festival, which was held at Gyldenpris Kunsthall was a great success, and gave us an opportunity to look back at the ten years gone by and everything we have accomplished. To celebrate we...
BIS and London Improvisers Orchestra @ Iklectik, London,
What a great weekend in London with our friends in London Improvisers Orchestra!Rehearsal at the Oto Project Space on Saturday and concert at I K L E C T I K on Sunday. Invigorating for everyone involved! For 23 years the London Improvisers Orchestra has been...
BIS led by Natalie Sandtorv
BIS invited vocalist and composer Natalie Sandtorv to lead the group at Gyldenpris Kunsthall june 9. 2021. Sandtorv is establishing herself on the international music scene, she just released her second solo album Heart Echoes on Jazzland recordings. Natalie was...
Arv – Else Olsen Storesund & Solveig Sørheim
Concert 12. of May at Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Lien 29 Bergen. Starts at 8 pm. Composers Else Olsen Storesund and Solveig Sørheim has prepared a open-form piece with text and graphic notation for Bergen ImproStorband. After a workshop in January Else Olsen...
Upcoming projects 2021
The fall 2020 has been a roller coaster for us in terms of juggling the different covid 19 restrictions on arrangements. We where lucky to be able to do the project with Per Jørgensen, and we had a nice conducting concert with children at Krapyl in August. But we've...
Instrument building in collaboration with WRAP. Join us!
Join us for experimental instrument building In collaboration with Plastisk Arena at WRAP we invite anyone interested in building instruments to work with us on this long term project of building an orchestra of self made instruments. Please email us if you are...
BIS led by Steve Beresford & Caroline Kraabel from LIO January 2020
After a visit at one of London Improvisers Orchestras concerts in London in the summer 2019, we invited Steve Beresford and Caroline Kraabel to share some of their wast experience from over 20 years running the LIO. Steve & Caroline joins BIS in one of their...