Digital concert hall for Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (BFO)

The collaboration between SKGJ and BFO started with an award of NOK 14.8 million for artistic development in the period leading up to the orchestra’s 250th anniversary in 2015 and the establishment of a digital concert hall. The collaboration was renewed in 2016 for a five-year period with an award of NOK 11 million in funding for the orchestra’s artistic and dissemination activities, including a Digital Concert Hall. The Foundation wishes to strengthen Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra’s artistic and outreach activities.

In 2022 the Foundation awarded 20 MNOK for the project “Bergenphilive goes 4K” for the period 2023-2027. This allocation will help to raise the artistic and technical quality of the orchestra’s dissemination activities in its digital concert hall Bergenphillive.

The 4K broadcast system is today’s standard for high-resolution image and sound in both the TV market and streaming to the cinema screen. BergenPhiLive has received a prominent place on the BFO’s website (harmonien.no): It currently hosts over 200 individual concerts in addition to various digital concert packages, which for example bring together Norwegian artists or piano concerts. All recordings, collections, digital festivals and interviews are freely available to the public.Selected concerts are also broadcast live via the orchestra’s website and reach an audience of over 200,000 per year. Some concerts are also shown on Norwegian national television NRK and in the European streaming service OperaVision.

Photo on this page BFO, title page photo by Trygve Schønfelder