Marianne Holmboe
Marianne was born in Oslo, Norway. Her musical career started at an early age, singing in the Radio Choir, and it wasn't long before she started to play guitar and piano and write her own songs. In 1989 Marianne took up oriental dance and became interested in the music. This in turn led to a fascination with oriental song, and resulted in her singing in the music groups Sumer and Cabaret Oriental.
Marianne's musical adventure has taken her in a wealth of different directions, the common factor being folk or ethnic roots - music from the Romany culture, African music, Balkan, Latin-American, folk-rock, reggae...all is grist to her mill.
Besides singing herself, and acting as choir-leader and arranger, Marianne continues to write songs which she performs herself in the singer-songwriter tradition, and has released a CD with her songs , "Med munnen full av jord" ("With a mouth full of earth")
She has been in Spain, studying flamenco song.
Josefine Liftig
Josefine was born in Gothenburg, Sweden and as a young child became fascinated by the tonality of Medieval, Oriental and Swedish folk-music. Her interest in these musical genres has flourished through their active practice and through her competance on wide variety of instruments. She has a broad and multifacetted musical background, illustrated by the many spheres in which she has worked - as flautist, pianist, conductor and arranger. Josefine has also done a lot of dancing, and , in fact, met Marianne when they were both learning oriental dance!
It was while studying Spanish at university that Josefine learned about the Sephardic inheritance and, to make a long story short, all the bits of the jigsaw puzzle fell finally into place – at last the exciting cultural and tonal links between the genres above was made clear and invited her to draw together the threads...
Adele Veronika Halten
Adele Veronika Halten is our harpist as of the autumn of 2008.
She is classically trained, educated at
the Swedish National Orchestra Academy (SNOA),
the Music Conservatory of Norway, the Music Conservatory of Falun,
the Music Conservatory of Paris and Kulturskolan in Trondheim from the age of 12.
Veronika's experience as a professional harpist started in the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra with conductor Ole Kristian Ruud when she was 14 years of age. Since then, she has played both with other symphony orchestras and in smaller ensembles with a repertory of music ranging from medieval to contemporary, from folk music to experimental newly composed music, in addition to the classical repertory.
Besides playing her harp, Veronika's skills include dancing, singing and playing percussion!
Read more about Veronika on her own homepage: www.harpediemproductions.com
Eshet chayil mi yimtsa
verachok mip'ninim michra
Batach ba lév bala
veshalal lo yechsar
Gemalathu tov velora
kol yemé chayeha
darsha tsemer ufishtim
vata'as bechéfets kapeha
Haita kaoniot sochér
mimerchak tavi lachma
vetakam beod laila
vatitén teref leveitah vechok lena'roteiha
zamma sade vatikachéhu
mipri chapeiha nat'a kare
chagra beoz motneiha
vateaméts z'rooteha |
A worthy wife is more precious than corals.
Her husband trusts her,
he will not want for anything.
She does him good and no evil
every day of her life.
She makes arts and crafts from wool and flax.
Like the trade ship, she fetches the bread from far
away.
She gets up before the sun rises
and feeds her household and her servants.
She plants vineyards with her own hands.
She girds her loins, and her arms are strong. |
ett skott av en skicklig jägare