<![CDATA[My Site - News]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:27:24 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Billetter til konsert i Lillehammer kirke 29. september]]>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:38:38 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/billetter-til-konsert-i-lillehammer-kirke-29-september
Billetter
Her kan dere kjøpe billetter til konserten vår i Lillehammer kirke lørdag 29. september klokka 19. Dere kan ta med e-posten som billett på konserten, men det er ikke nødvendig. Vi har oversikt over forhåndssalget. 

Lillehammers egen Sigrun Eng på cello har med seg Anne Hytta, Kelly Thoma fra Kreta i Hellas og franske Eléonore Billy til konserten i Lillehammer kirke. Sammen spiller de folkeinstrumentene hardingfele, nyckelharpe og kretisk lyra, og danner et lekent og nyskapende klangbilde som kompletteres med Engs cello. Tokso er gresk kraft og temperament, nordisk melankoli og fransk eleganse – hele 53 strenger settes i sving når Tokso setter buen til strengene! 
 
I år feirer de 10 år som kvartett, og de kommer til Lillehammer kirke med den rykende ferske utgivelsen Fyrsta morginn, som utgis på Grappa Musikkforlag nå i september. 
 
Kelly Thoma og Anne Hytta er tradisjonsutøvere med kretisk og norsk folkemusikk som musikalske morsmål. Begge har også jobbet med en rekke folkemusikere fra andre land. Eléonore er opprinnelig fiolinist, men begynte tidlig å interessere seg for folkemusikk, og har tilegnet seg svensk tradisjonsmusikk på nyckelharpa med et fransk skråblikk. Sigrun Eng er klassisk cellist med uvanlig sjangerfleksibilitet. Tokso er for anledningen forsterket med den forrykende norsk/kurdisk/iranske perkusjonisten Kaveh Mahmudiyan og den alltid glimrende Lillehamringen Jo Fougner Skaansar på kontrabass.
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Konsert lørdag 29. september klokka 19.00
Billetter: 200/120 (studenter)
Konserten varer i i ca. 70 minutter.
Barn (0-12 år) gratis inngang, barn over 12 år kommer inn til studentpris.  

]]><![CDATA[Our new performance!]]>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:07:20 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/our-new-performanceOn March 23rd we performed our new concert performance with percussionist Bijan Chemirani. The concert is a series of pieces composed to the Norse creation myth Voluspá, with text extracts and photos on screen. Here are a couple of videos from the concert!

Tokso:
Kelly Thoma - Cretan Lyra
Anne Hytta - Hardanger Fiddle
Eléonore Billy - Nyckelharpa
Sigrun Eng - Cello
with Bijan Chemirani - Daf

Light and Screen design: Evelina Dembacke and Tilo Hahn
Produced by Transnational Arts Production, Norway
Concert video: Magnus Bugge
Music by Anne Hytta
Photos: Arvid Sveen
]]><![CDATA[ΤOKSO on KritiTV]]>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 07:16:16 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/okso-on-krititvKritiTV hosted the quartet on one of the most popular shows of the Cretan channel! Tokso had the opportunity to present their instruments, their cultures, the particularities of the ensemble as well as play 3 compositions. 
You can watch the 23 minutes' presentation in the link below!

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVBBRQNkn90]]><![CDATA[TOKSO album on Norwegian Broadcasting]]>Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:25:46 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/tokso-album-on-norwegian-broadcastingRadio show Spillerom on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) ranks Tokso's album Cor Amant among three top releases of folk music related albums of 2014. Reviewer Kjetil Bjørgan talks about the album and the two other releases by Sigrid Moldestad and Hekla Stålstrenga here (from 09.25 he talks about Tokso), and you will also hear our piece Faith:

http://radio.nrk.no/serie/spillerom-hovedsending/MKMR06000515/07-01-2015#t=4m7s]]><![CDATA[Songlines Music Awards 2015 nomination!]]>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:15:15 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/songlines-music-awards-2015-nominationTokso is nominated to 3 out of 4 categories in the Songlines Music Awards 2015: Best group, Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Newcomer. Everybody can vote here: Songlines.co.uk]]><![CDATA[Tokso to Oslo in April]]>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:11:02 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/tokso-to-oslo-in-aprilTokso will perform at Riksscenen in Oslo on April 17th, we hope the Oslo audience will come and listen to us!
Check out the event here: www.riksscenen.no]]><![CDATA[Cor Amant review in Songlines]]>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:08:00 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/cor-amant-review-in-songlines"An intriguing aural journey": Tokso's album Cor Amant has been reviewed in Songlines!
]]><![CDATA[Tokso at radio show Atlantis!]]>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:06:27 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/tokso-at-radio-show-atlantisNorwegian Radio show Atlantis (NRK P13) presented Tokso album Cor Amant last week. Radio presenter Svein Terje Torvik especially liked our piece Avocado, which was played in the show. You can hear it here: http://radio.nrk.no/serie/atlantis/MUHR39002614/29-06-2014#t=3m40s
If you get bored with the Norwegian talking, the music starts at 05.00!]]><![CDATA[Startling review in Aftenposten!]]>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:43:24 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/startling-review-in-aftenpostenNorway's largest newspaper, Aftenposten, gives Tokso's Cor Amant 6 out of 6 stars in a startling review today. Here are some quotes:

A superb and incomparable string quartet

Tokso reflects equal portions of elegance, temperament, power and melancholy. The quartet is a chamber musical phenomenon originating in both traditional and classical music.

String Quartet Tokso is a glowing musical love project of four fantastic musicians. Four women from three different countries, hardanger fiddle player Anne Hytta and cellist Sigrun Eng from Norway, the Greek lyra player Kelly Thoma and French Eléonore Billy on nykkelharpe.

Together they create a unique and very distinctive flora of sounds. Cor Amant is wonderfully rich in seductive mood shifts from excitement, melancholy, hurried drive and drama to gentle and soft serenity. In the beautiful "Pillow" it is as if they are whispering their message, while Anne Hytta's "Rand" is like a small revelation, perceiving the morning light arrival over the mountain.

Peaceful and beautiful – these are musicians with finely tuned eye contact, riveting and sprawling interaction and passionate sensitivity for each other’s power and temperament.
Svein Andersen, Aftenposten 06.19.2014

Read the whole review here (in Norwegian): http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Suveren-og-makelos-strykekvartett-7610699.html#.U6P4FRb4E48

]]><![CDATA[Fantastic review in the Norwegian Broadcasting]]>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:47:45 GMThttp://www.toksoquartet.com/news/fantastic-review-in-the-norwegian-broadcastingReviewer Kjetil Bjorgan in The Norwegian Broadcasting main radio news show about arts and culture calls the Tokso album a home run (In Norwegian: "Innertier"): These are really good musicians who give it all, topping original and well written music with virtuosity and a true joy of playing."

http://radio.nrk.no/serie/kulturnytt-radio/nmag01010914/03-06-2014#t=18m36s
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