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The Norwegian baritone Halvor F. Melien was born in 1984. He studied at the State Academy of Music in Oslo.
Despite his young age he has quickly established himself as one of Norway’s most sought after concert singers. Since the summer of 2010 he has also started an international career, working with conductors such as Aaron Carpene, Fabio Biondi, Marcello Di Lisa, Gottfried von der Goltz, Tõnu Kaljuste, Sirkka Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, Nicholas Kraemer, Peter Schreier, Christoph Spering, Jos van Veldhoven and Alexander Vedernikov.
In the spring of 2010 he sang Bach’s St. John Passion in Oslo, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Kristiansand as well as in Hamar, Cantatas by Bach in Oslo, Lars-Erik Larsson’s God in disguise in Oslo, as well as concerts at Bergen International Festival. In the summer of 2010 he sang Cantatas by Bach with the BBC Philharmonic.
Engagements in the season 2010/11 included concerts with music by Schütz in Amsterdam, Brussels (Klara-Festival) and Antwerp, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Bergen and Larvik, Fauré’s Requiem in Kristiansand as well as in Asker, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung in Moss as well as in Bergen (Norway), Bach’s Mass in B minor in Oslo, Bach’s St. John Passion in Oslo, St. Matthew Passion in Cologne and Duisburg, Bach’s Mass in g major in Asker, Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri in Oslo and Kongsberg, Handel’ Messiah in Oslo as well as at Eiker Music Festival, Mozart’s Requiem in Oslo, Mozart’s Mass in C minor in Oslo, works by Monteverdi and Sciarrino in Oslo and Bergen, cantatas by Bach and motets by Charpentier in Tonsberg, and the world premier of a new solo piece written for Halvor F. Melien by Ørjan Matre.
Engagements in the season 2011/12 include Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Lahti Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Andreas Spering as well as in Warsaw with the conductor Fabio Biondi, Fauré’s Requiem in Trondheim with the conductor Alexander Vedernikov, Pastore in Scarlatti’s Erminia in Naples with the conductor Marcello Di Lisa, Cantatas by Bach in Kristiansand with the conductor Nicolas Kraemer, arias by Vivaldi in Trondheim with the conductor Gottfried von der Goltz, Maxwell Davies’ Blake Dreaming in Oslo, Bach’s Mass in B minor in Bergen, Bach’s Actus Tragicus in Gothenburg, Handel’s Messiah in Hamar as well as in Hof (Norway), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Hamar, and arias by Bach in Oslo and Tonsberg. He will also participate in a CD recording of bel-canto repertoire (Rossini and others) with the conductor Fabio Biondi.
Future assignments include Mozart’s Litanie Lauretane as well as a Mass by Pergolesi in Rome and Loreto with Fabio Biondi, Bruckner’s Mass in F minor with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the conductor Simon Gaudenz, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Morten Schuldt-Jensen, Ørjan Matre’s Hoffentlich mussten Sie an der Grenze nicht lange warten in Oslo, and Mozart’s Requiem in Oslo.
February 2012
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