NEWS 2009

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Wednesday December 2nd
Three Generations Stanghelle held an morning consert in the Church of Sandefjord. Also Thomas' wife, Ingunn Roland Stanghelle, performed.

Musikk i Sandefjord Kirke – Musikalsk hyggestund
Vårt Land: Skjer – Musikalsk hyggestund med «Tre Generasjoner Stanghelle»





Wednesday November 11th at 17:00 and 20:00 hrs
Thomas Stanghelle's opera-musical Some Sunny Night was performed in Lillesand, Møglestuhallen. Alexander Rybak played the part as "Ketil Moe" and Thomas Stanghelle played the part as "Mark Wang" from China. About 150 international artists took part in this performance as a 10-year memorial perfromance for the "marathon-hero" Ketil Moe (1966-99). Also Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway was invited.

Pictures are available here, and also at LP.no, NRK.no and FVN.no.

For press pictures, see here.

Lillesandsposten – Kulturbyen Lillesand
CF Norge – Alexander Rybak hilser til mennesker med CF
Høvågavisa – Fantastisk "Some Sunny Night"
Kondis.no – 1300 så operamusikalen til minne om Ketil Moe
Akershus Amtstidende – Suksess for nesoddopera
Lillesands-Posten – Opera-suksess
Blogg: AIR Friends – Some Sunny Night
Fædrelandsvennen – Mintes Ketil Moe med «Some Sunny Night»
Fædrelandsvennen – 1300 så Rybak i Ketil Moe-musikal

Lillesands-Posten – Operamusikalen i rute
Nordlys – Tromsø-sopran blir Rybaks kone
Agderposten – Klare til å hylle Kjetil Moe
Se og Hør – -Vi savner han masse
Lillesands-Posten – Trenger frivillige til opera-happening
Lillesands-Posten – Fikk en smugtitt på statuen
Akershus Amtstidende – Operahovedrolle for Rybak
Budstikka – Feiret 5 år i Krakow
Agderposten – -Som å gjennoppleve stundene med Ketil
Lillesands-Posten – Tre autentiske leger i Ketil Moe-operaen
Fædrelandsvennen – Øver på Ketil Moe-musikal
Lillesands-Posten – Dronningen invitert til maratonoperaen
Fædrelandsvennen – Alexander Rybak spiller Ketil Moe i musikal
NRK – Alexander Rybak: Skal spille Ketil Moe
Agderposten – Alexander som Ketil
Lillesands-Posten – Grand Prix-vinner hyller Ketil Moe
Lillesands-Posten – Rybak hyller Ketil Moe



In October 2008 Thomas Stanghelle was participating in "Nytt på nytt" on Norwegian television, on the behalf og Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb. Also this year NRK were auctioning away both guest spots. All the inncom went to this year's TV campaign.

NRK – Ledig stol i gullrekkja




Sunday October 19th
Thomas Stanghelle and Lindesnes were on tour in Spain. Excerpts from Trekkspilloperaen was performed.

Lindesnes Avis – Ga alt i sjømannskirken
Spaniaavisen – Trekkspill, troll og trøkk i sjømannskirken



The Salvation Army's (Frelsesarmeen) magazine "Krigsropet"
wrote about Thomas Stanghelle's many projects.

Read the article from the number 36, 2009 here.









Saturday August 29th
Thomas Stanghelle gave two performances together with Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb August 29: "Ketil Moe's Mosjonsløp" in Kristiansand Dyrepark and at Aker Brygge, Oslo for the official opening of 5 new ships.

Lillesands-Posten – Stemmningen på topp



Friday August 28th
Thomas Stanghelle and his 91 year old grandmother Mathilde Marker performed together with Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb at "Livsglede for eldre", Gimlehallen in Kristiansand.



Saturday August 15th
Thomas Stanghelle and his 91 year old grandmother Mathilde Marker performed together with Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb at Evje, "Landbrukets dag".



Tuesday August 11th
Thomas Stanghelle and his 91-year old grandmother Mathilde Marker achieved standing ovations at The Norwegian Opera in Bjørvika, as guest artists in Alexander Rybak's concert. Among other guest-artists were Arve Tellefsen, Dennis Storhøi, Elisabeth "Bettan" Andreassen, Hanne Krogh, Stephen Ackles and Barrat Due's Orchestra.

Hear Thomas and grandmother Mathilde at NRK Reiseradioen August 11th here.

See pictures from the concert here and at Amta.no
For press pictures, se here.

Akershus Amtstidende – - Akkurat dette jeg ville
Agderposten – Operadebut for Mathilde (91)
Dagbladet – Feleduellen
Akershus Amtstidende – Besto eksamen med stråleglans
Kulturspeilet – Varm hyllest av Rybak
Akershus Amtstidende – Alex med Storhøi og Ackles i operaen
Vårt Land – 91-åring opptrer
Fædrelandsvennen – Tavel konsertarrangør
Fædrelandsvennen – Mathilde (91) får opptre i operaen



Wednesday July 29th in Kr.sand Domkirke
Our annual summer concert, combined with birthday celebrations, was this year held as "Olsok-concert".

Participating artists in addition to Thomas Stanghelle and Alexander Rybak was: Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb, Igor and Natasja Rybak, Mathilde and Turid Stanghelle, Ingunn Roland Stanghelle and Harald Stanghelle -political editor of Aftenposten.

All the ticket was early sold out.
You can see highlights from the consert here and here.

Press: For poster in high resolution see here.

Agderposten – Anny traff Alexander
Fædrelandsvennen – Trekkspill-eventyr i Domkirken
Akershus Amtstidende – Spiller for 1300
Fædrelandsvennen – Tavel konsertarrangør
Agderposten – Bursdag med konsert i domkirken
Kristiansands Avis – Portrett: Thomas Stanghelle
Farsunds Avis – Kjenner du denne karen?
Fædrelandsvennen – Gullgutten til Sørlandet
Farsunds Avis – Helt surrealistisk!
Farsunds Avis – Kjenner du denne karen?
Ann-Turi Ford følger Alexander Rybak – Stjernetid
Fædrelandsvennen – Olsokfest i Domkirken
Setesdølen – Stulien spelar saman med Rybak
Varden – Everntyret startet i Skien



Ræga-TV Wednesday July 29th





Sunday July 5th at 19:30 hrs
Thomas performed together with Karsten Isachsen at Justøy.



Saturday July 4th at 12:00 hrs
Thomas Stanghelle and his 91 year old (young) grandmother Mathilde performed together with Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb at Utvandrerfestivalen in Kvindesdal.



Sunday June 21st
Thomas Stanghelle performed together with Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb at the festival "Drømmen om Finnskogen".



Tuesday June 18th
Thomas Stanghelle performed his new written accordian opera text, based on "O sole mio", on the Norwegian television show kalled "God morgen Norge" on TV 2.



Monday June 15th
Thomas Stanghelle performed parts from his opera-musical "Some Sunny Night" at the 5th World Congress in Rehabilitation Medicine in Istanbul, Turkey. Mark Wang from China and professor Johan Stanghelle also took part in the presentation.

Se pictures here.






After 11 years of struggle Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb and Thomas Stanghelle, who made "The Accordian Opera", finally have achieved their dream to perform in The Opera House in Bjørvika. The Summer of 2010 they will be standing on the main stage at "Den Norske Opera".

Fædrelandsvennen – Klare for Operaen



Saturday June 13th
Thomas Stanghelle and Alexander Rybak celebrated the birthday of Rybak's parents with a special concert-show at Skoklafaldsalen at Nesodden.

See pictures from the celebration here.
More pictures at Akershus Amtstidende.

Akershus Amtstidende – Alexander hedret sine




Three Generations were touring the South of Norway with twelve concerts May 26th. to June 6th. They were performing songs from their new album Three Generations 4.

See poster here.



New CD: Tre Generasjoner 4New CD-released by Three Generations: "Tre Generasjoner 4"

You can buy it in the shop.








Wednesday May 20th
Thomas Stanghelle performed together with Karsten Isachsen in Kristiansand Domkirke.



Sunday May 17th
Thomas Stanghelle is conducting two concerts with the choir "Tuntrallen" in Songdalen at the National Day of Norway: May 17.



Friday May 15th
Thomas Stanghelle is performing in Voie church with Karsten Isachsen at 19:00 hrs.

You can see the poster here.









Saturday April 18th
Thomas Stanghelle performed at Lindesnes Fyr, in Fjellhallen, together with Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb.

Tau dagsenter 04.22 – poster



New DVD: Leve DrømmenNew DVD-released: "Leve Drømmen"
by Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb (featuring Thomas Stanghelle)

You can buy it in the shop.










Saturday March 28th
”Norske Trekkspilleres Landsforbund” (Norwegian Accordionplayers Association) arranged district accordion champinoship at Stinta School.
There was many competitions, delicious food, and great entertainment by Thomas Stanghelle and Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb.

Trekkspillnytt – Arendal var stedet
Agderposten – Landsdelens beste på trekkspill
Agderposten – Distriktsmesterskap i trekkspill



Saturday March 21th
Thomas Stanghelle performed with Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb in Olavsahllen, Trondheim.

Announcing before the concert.



Both in Lillesand and Beijing there are plans to raise a statue of the Norwegian marathon-hero Ketil Moe (1966-99) and his collaborator Mark Wang from China. Thomas Stanghelle's opera-musical Some Sunny Night will be performed at these ceremonies. There is an ongoing debate in Norwegian media about the statues.

Dagbladet – En helt spesiell idrettshelt
Lillesands-Posten – Ønsker statue-gave i rådhuset
Fædrelandsvennen – Ønsker estetikk-utvalg i Lillesand
Lillesands-Posten – Ønsker fokus på estetikk-perspektiv
Fædrelandsvennen – Takket ja til usett statue-gave
Lillesands-Posten – Bystyret sa ja til statue
Fædrelandsvennen – Kjetil Moe bør vurderes av faglig utvalg
Lillesands-Posten – Statue av Mark Wang i Lillesand sentrum
Lillesands-Posten – Enstemmig ja til statue
Fædrelandsvennen – Glade for Kjetil Moe-statue
Agderposten – Det holder med en minneplate
Agderposten – Sier ja til statue
Agderposten – Sier ja til Moe-statue
Lillesands-Posten – Statue-ja
Lillesands-Posten – Nettleserne sier klart ja til statue
Agderposten – Kjetil Moe - en stor lillesander
Lillesands-Posten – Kjetil Moe - den største lillesander
Agderposten – Bringer stafetten videre
Fædrelandsvennen – Kinesisk statue-gave vekker debatt
Lillesands-Posten – Statue-debatt
Lillesands-Posten – Debatt om statue
Lillesands-Posten – Statue-tvil
Lillesands-Posten – Tre meter høy dobbeltstatue
Lillesands-Posten – Så modell av statuen
Lillesands-Posten – Planlegger statue av Kjetil Moe



Three Generations was on tour:
Wednesday February 11th at Framnessenteret
Thursday Febryary 12th at Forsmannsenteret
Thursday February 12th at Kulturaften, Kløverbakken

You can read more in the program.








Saturday March 7th
Thomas and his 90 year old grandmother Mathilde performed in Grieghallen, Bergen, toghether with Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb.



Paralympics Games in Beijing 2008Saturday February 21st
Thomas Stanghelle congratulates his collaborator and friend Alexander Rybak with the winning the Eurovision Song Contest of Norway. Thomas and Alexander have performed toghether the last 14 years.

VG – GP-heltens bestemor: - Min lille engel
VG – Mamma Rybak: - Det er ubeskrivelig

Alexander Rybak is performing on the following releases by Song Records Norway:

CD: Some Sunny Night - live in Brussels 2007
DVD: Some Sunny Night - live in Brussels 2007
CD: "Jul i Tre Generasjoner"
Double-DVD:    "Some Sunny Night -the Royal Performance 2004"
CD: "En søndagsfortelling"
CD: "En julefortelling"

You can buy them here.



February 14th-18th
Thomas traveled to Beijing to rehearse and plan the upcoming performances of Some Sunny Night.



Saturday 7th February
Lindesnes Trekkspillklubb played in Stavanger konserthus together with soprano Mathilde Marker and her grandson, tenor and composer Thomas Stanghelle. Excerpts from Thomas' Accordian Opera was performed.

Stavanger Aftenblad – announcing


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