Oda Voltersvik
ABOUT
Oda Voltersvik -“(…) an extraordinary Scandinavian artist!” (Per Brevig, Musicians Club New York) - has performed at important venues internationally including Carnegie Hall & Scandinavia House (NYC), Wigmore Hall & St Martin in the Fields (London), the Norwegian Opera House and from 2014 - 2022 & 2024; artist in residence for a week at the Edvard Grieg museum in Bergen. As a solo and chamber musician she has held recitals for important concert societies and taken part in festivals internationally, including several solo recital tours and concerto performances in the US.
Her CD releases “NEO”, “Firebird” and her piano duo recording “Khoreia” have received great reviews. Oda received the honourable Norwegian Arts Council` s work grant for younger and newly established artists for 2021 & 2022. She is a 1st prize winner of the Bradshaw £ Buono International competition (2017) and finalist in the Jaques Samuels competition (2016).
For her solo and chamber music projects, she has been awarded grants from the Arts Council Norway, Fund for Performing Artists, Music Norway, Bergen City and Fegerstens foundation among others. Oda is a member of an active piano duo; the Volt&Potenza duo and has been project leader of several successful concert series for her Volt Ensemble among others, including Volt Classics held in Bergen.
Oda holds a Master in Performance from the Royal College of Music London and an Artist Diploma from Trinity Laban Conservatoire (with distinction from the Intercollegiate Jury).
Subscribe to recordings at:
Solo recital, October 2020
March 3rd 2023
Released 2016, Velut Luna label
Solo recital, October 2020
NEWS:
For the years 2023 - 2026, Oda is artist-in-recidence for the Grieg Society of the Dakotas alongside having concerts for other concert organisations in the US!
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Website design: Stefano Di Cara
“A pianist with great sensitivity and lovely tone (...). She has the touch to render the orchestral textures vividly (...)”
Marios Papadopoulos, director of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
​“Hats off to Oda Voltersvik for such well-considered programme for her debut recording as a solo pianist (...) a most auspicious start to a recording career“
Martin Anderson, klassiskmusikk.com on "Firebird", 2019
"We were fortune to have a player of your calibre on our series (...) an extraordinary Scandinavian artist!"
Musicians Club of New York, President Per Brevig, 2019
"“From the first bright flourish of the piano to the warmth of the final tutti, this was a performance of polish, and Voltersvik’s cadenza, strongly delineated with alternating flashes of sunlight and rumbling thunder (...) she possesses such command of changing musical weather (and Norwegian dance rhythms!).
Dr Sally Garden, (...) “in fresh North Sea exhange”, Grieg Society of Scotland newsletter, June 2023
​"I have heard this piece (the Ballade in G Minor) played professionally many times, and your performance compares favorably with the best of them. "
William H. Halverson, American Grieg scholar (biography),
on concert in Minneapolis,
March 2023
“(…) a world-class pianist (…) dazzled by her musical prowess, ease, and virtuosity. She is a collaborator and makes everything work so naturally. (...) My breath was taken away by the vastness of her repertoire and the intense emotion she brings into every piece. Oda possesses the excellent quality of artistry that makes a long-lasting impact on musicians and audience members (…)”
Dr. Christopher Stanichar, Director of Aberdeen University/Civic Symphony, 2023
"She brings unique colour and interpretation to her chosen works (..) an artist of the highest level, but also as a trusted and generous colleague."
Simon Kirkbride, director of Edvard Grieg Choir, 2017
"a captivating artist and impressive scholar (...). Oda’s humble temperament belies a dynamic technique and passionate approach to her art.”
Kenneth Boulton, Dean of the School of Fine Arts at Northern State University, 2022
​"(…) I fra en sal mer enn fylt av begeistring (…) Flygelet og pianisten besto med glans, og vi får bare håpe at hun igjen kan slå seg ned i denne byen for en liten stund og rive oss ut av døsen."
Dag G. Aasland, Grimstad Adressetidende 2018
“It was a great pleasure to hear Oda Voltersvik. Her wide-ranging and expertly performed programme was much admired.”