"Alden's direction finds fruition in Eivind Gullberg Jensen's ideally buoyant, rhythmically alert, liberated conducting, which has the orchestra scurrying off in nervous flurries of sound and tracing Janáček's spasmic ostinatos and pent-up climaxes with lyrical finesse: a sensational house debut for the young Norwegian."
—Andrew Clark, Financial Times, March 2009
Autumn 2011 sees the start of Eivind Gullberg Jensen's third season as Chief Conductor of NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, during which he will take the orchestra on a tour of Eastern Europe and also return to the Bergen Festival for a two concert residency.
Highlights of this season include debuts with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and at the Pacific Music Festival, Sapporo. He will also conduct the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with soloist Khatia Buniatishvili as well as Müncher Philharmoniker. He will also continue his longstanding relationship with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducting them on two separate occasions over the course of the 2011/12 season. In October 2012 Eivind will conduct his debut concerts with Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Guest conducting debuts during the 2010/11 season included performances with the Berliner Philharmoniker (with Vadim Repin performing Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium Concerto for Violin and Orchestra), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (with clarinettist Martin Fröst performing the Dutch premiere of Victoria Borisova-Ollas' Golden Dance of the Pharaohs), and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. He also made his debut with Wiener Symphoniker with soloist Hélčne Grimaud in June 2011, taking the orchestra to the Kissinger Sommer Festival later that same month.
Other highlights last season included a return to Orchestre de Paris and Orchestre National de France, both for concerts in Paris with Nikolai Demidenko, and at the St Denis Festival with Renaud Capuçon. He also conducted the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in concerts featuring soloists Truls Mřrk and Janine Jansen as well as giving the Norwegian premiere of Bent Sřrensen's Sounds Like You (having previously conducted the world premiere with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra).
Also prolific as an opera conductor, past operatic engagements have included his debut for English National Opera with Janácek's Jenufa, Il Corsaro in Zurich, Tosca with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Fidelio with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In December 2010 he conducted Eugene Onegin for Den Norske Opera and this season he will return there to lead a production of La Boheme. He will return to Opernhaus Zurich for a production of Rusalka in 2012/13 and will also make his debut with Bayerische Staatsoper the same season.
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.
