"What energy! What unique understanding of structure! How noble! How grand! There is no doubt about it, Gullberg Jensen is a master. He must come back. He must continue to spoil us with such unforgettable evenings... This has to be one of the most beautiful concerts of the season. To explain why is beyond words. Would this be paradise?"
—Pierre Yves Lascar, www.classiquenews.com
May 2007 – Orchestre de Paris concert
From the start of 2009/10, Eivind Gullberg Jensen will become Chief Conductor of NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hannover, and will conduct the orchestra 12 weeks per season.
2007/08 sees Eivind Gullberg Jensen make a variety of major debuts including Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, NDR Hannover, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Salzburg Mozarteum. He also makes return visits to Bordeaux and SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg, with whom he appears in Locarno with Truls Mørk and in Baden-Baden with Steven Isserlis. He will also make his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in May 2008.
Future engagements include debuts with Oslo Philharmonic (with whom he will conduct a series of New Year concerts as well as appear in subscription concerts), Zurich's Tonhalle Orchester, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, NHK Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic as well as return visits to the Aspen Music Festival and Orchestre de Paris. Since his debut in December 2005, he has also developed a strong relationship with Orchestre National de France and has been invited to work with the orchestra each season.
In the opera world, summer 2007 saw Eivind Gullberg Jensen conduct a new production of Tosca directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff (an opera he has previously conducted Stockholm) for the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus with Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, and he returns there in summer 2008 for a production of Fidelio with Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Following his recent stunning debut with Zurich Opera with a production of Peer Gynt, he has been re-invited for a production of Martinu's Greek Passion in autumn 2008. In spring 2009 Eivind Gullberg Jensen will also make his debut with English National Opera with a production of Janáček's Jenůfa. In December 2006 he conducted Rolando Villazón and the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in a televised Silvestergala concert from Baden-Baden. He also recently made his debut with Opera National de Lyon in a double bill of Puccini's Il Tabarro and Bizet's Djamileh.
After studying violin and musical theory in Trondheim, Eivind Gullberg Jensen went on to study conducting with legendary Professor Jorma Panula in Stockholm, and in Vienna, with Leopold Hager. He has participated in the Aspen Music Festival with David Zinman and in master classes with Kurt Masur in Poland and New York.
