Kor Uten Navn is a femal choir with 35 members.

The choir was founded in 1986, and is located in Nittedal, one of Oslo’s neighbouring municipalities. Our conductor Anne-Britt Henriksen is the founder of the choir. She has a degree in music from the University of Oslo , with the piano as her main instrument. She has studied choir conducting under the well-known Norwegian composer and conductor Knut Nystedt. The choir takes pride in its conductor, and Nittedal municipality has given her an award for cultural activities. This award has also been granted to the choir.

Since its origin, the choir has been in continuous development. While working hard to expand and master our musical repertory, we always try to keep our "enjoyment and pleasure with singing" in focus. For this reason the choir consider it important to work with varied musical styles, and have a wide repertory spanning madrigals, sacred music, classical music, folk songs, pop, rock, blues and contemporary music. The choir seeks out and thrives on new musical challenges, and work closely with song pedagogues. This is both to improve the choir as a whole, and to give each individual singer the opportunity to develop herself.

At some of our concerts the choir perform choreographed songs. In addition to this amusing and entertaining the audience, it also helps the singers develop greater openness and courage under performances - this in turn improve the choirs musical quality.


Previous competitions


International Franz-Schubert choir competition in Wien 11. – 15. NOVEMBER 2009
number 1 GOLD diploma I - Equal Voices (femal) 20,80 points
number 7 SILVER diploma X - Sacred Music contest 19,97 points

2008 Norway - Bergen Choral Festival "Syng for oss", june 13 - 15
number 1 in the Scenic Expression contest 20,8 points
number 3 in the Femal Choir contest 21,8 points
Winner of the final Grand Prix contest

2007 chech Republic - Praha International Choral Festival og Christmas Music - Musica Mundi, Nov 29 - Des 2
number 1 GOLD diploma Equal Voices contest (male and female choirs) 26 points
"Special prize for most exciting performance".

Riva del Garda - International Choral Festival, Musica Mundi, Italy - 9. April - 12. April 2006
GULL III diplom 23,36 points in the Femal Choir competition
SØLV IX diplom 18,81 points in the Sacred Music competition

Montreux Choral Festival, Switzerland - 24. April - 27. April 2003

Sligo International Choral Festival, Irland - 2. November - 5. november 2000
Folkmusic finale:nr 2 Kor Uten Navn 83 p
Femal Choir finale:nr 3 Kor Uten Navn
Four part choir finale:nr 4 Kor Uten Navn, 83 p

Skien International Choir Festival 1998, Norway
79 points.

Regular annual concert program


The Peace Concert in aid of Amnesty International.
This concert is arranged by the choir in co-operation with the local Amnesty International group in Nittedal. Performing at the concerts (in addition to the choir) is a guest artist. During more than 15 years of concerts, many of Norway’s well known artists have performed.

Theme concert with dance and drama
This is the main event for the choir and takes place every second year. It provides the opportunity to try out various musical styles. Some themes from the last years have been blues, Duke Ellington, Porgy & Bess and ABBA.

Christmas Consert in Nittedal church
The choir has, amongst other things, twice performed "A Ceremony of Carols" by Benjamin Britten, accompanied by the internationally recognised harpist Willy Postma.

Other performances
The choir has performed a several large conferences, and also arrange smaller concerts and participate at various local cultural arrangements in Nittedal. The choir has developed a "singing and serving" concept for private parties and business events.

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