Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Cecilie Christ has extensive experience in communication and management, currently serving as the Kommunikasjonssjef at Stavanger Symfoniorkester since January 2017. Prior to this, Cecilie held the position of Managing Director at Stavanger Sentrum AS from May 2012 to January 2017, where responsibilities included brand development, budget oversight, and public relations. Earlier roles included Marketing Manager at Sola Strand Hotel, responsible for sales and marketing plans, and various positions in marketing and editorial roles at Kompass Norge, Scanbox Entertainment, and Nordisk Film. Education includes studies at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway, and BI Norwegian Business School.
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Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
SSO performs and has its concerts in the Fartein Valen in Stavanger concert hall which is considered one of the best concert halls in Europe. Andris Poga is SSO’s Chief Conductor. Tianyi Lu is the orchestra’s current Conductor-in-Residence. Recent guest conductors have included Karina Canellakis, Pablo Heras-Casado, James Gaffigan, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Dalia Stasevska and Vassily Sinaisky. Frans Brüggen was the SSO’s Artistic Director for early music from 1990-1997; Philippe Herreweghe had the same position from 2000 to 2004 and Fabio Biondi from 2006 to 2016. Ever since then, the SSO has continued to work regularly with exponents of historical performance practice including Kristian Bezuidenhout, Andrea Marcon, Jan Willem de Vriend, Matthew Halls, Ottavio Dantone, Riccardo Minasi, among others. The orchestra has a recording label of its own; besides, it has recorded lots of Scandinavian music for BIS, as well as baroque music with Fabio Biondi for Naïve and other record companies. It has been touring in various European countries, Japan and the USA. SSO was nominated for Spellemann in 2018 for Gisle Kverndock’s Symphonic Dances and recieved two Hedda Awards i 2019, hence Best Performance, for The Mute. The orchestra was founded in 1938 and consists of 85 musicians from 23 different nations.