Assistant professor in choral conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music since 1991.

Receiver of the Norwegians States 10 Year grant for established artists since 2014, prolonged until 2027.

Books: The Choir – singing – leading- communicating. http://www.cantando.com 2002

«Å dirigere med en fugl på hånden – musikalsk ledelse og kontakt» autumn 2023 Norsk Musikforlag

«Conducting with a Bird on The Hand – Musical leadership and Interaction» , 2024 Amazon

Conductor of:

2018 – Kammerkoret YMIR / Chamber Choir YMIR

2002— Schola Cantorum http://www.scholacantorum.no

2011-2013  Norges Ungdomskor / The Norwegian Youth choir

2007-2009 Chorus master at the Oscarsborg Opera

1998 -2004 Female choir Vocalis

Projects : The chamber choir at the Norwegian Academy of Music

1991-2002:The Norwegian Student Choral Society

1990 — Freelance

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CD:

DYSS

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New composed norwegian folk music for choir and fiddle by and with Bjørn Kåre Odde.

TRACHEA

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Trachea, the windpipe. A source of transformation where the breath of a human being can be refined into the most beautiful, powerful, tender art. The voice is humankind’s primeval instrument, plumbing the greatest depths of our emotional register. Schola Cantorum takes us through six unique musical landscapes that share something fundamental: This is music that celebrates the physical and spiritual, thinking and feeling human being — and at the same time poses a challenge. Who are we?

Bjørn Kåre Odde: Snilla Patea
Martin Ødegaard: Trachea
Ståle Kleiberg: Alt i universet
Bjørn Morten Christophersen: Oak and Mayfly
Karin Rehnqvist: When I close my eyes, I dream of peace
Frøy Aagre: Gloria

«I love the choir — this instrument which is so unpredictable, so personal. Each member sings with his or her own voice, communicating their own personal story, and my objective is to collect it all, unify and purify it, and hopefully make the Eros, the profound and inherent love, shine brightly by way of the instrument. Whether the music is complex or simple, the objective remains equal: to cultivate an energy and a timbre which merge with the composition, elevating it to something larger than the sum of all its individual elements. It is during this encounter, where each individual forms part of something larger than themselves, that musical magic arises. This is what I seek. Those moments when the eyes of both the performers and our audience glow. This is the moment I know that we have succeeded.» — Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl, conductor

Ever since Schola Cantorum was founded by composer Knut Nystedt in 1964, the chamber choir of the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo has had as its prime goal to present contemporary choral works with a particular emphasis on Norwegian and Nordic composers. 

Recording sessions: Facebook Photo Album

Immersive Audio is a sonic sculpture that you can literally move around and relate to spatially; surrounded by music you can move about in the aural space and choose angles, vantage points and positions. Dolby Atmos and the Auro-3D on this Pure Audio Blu-ray delivers a new standard in immersion, fully enveloping the audience in a cocoon of life-like audio. Recorded in discrete 7.0.4 at DXD resolution. 

AUDIENS

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What is the music of the Nordic light? Let yourself be transported to a new world of sound as the chamber choir Schola Cantorum and conductor Tone Bianca Dahl, with guest musicians Are Sandbakken and Nordic Voices, grant you an AUDIENCE. Hear one of Norway’s leading choirs in premier recordings and modern classics.

HYMN TO THE VIRGIN

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Thomas Aquinas writes in the Summa Theologica: «Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.» The quotation most aptly describes the repertoire on the Norwegian chamber choir Schola Cantorum’s recording of hymns to Mary, the Mother of God, in which tranquillity, eternity and ‘bursting forth into sound’ are encountered in many different guises. 

The composers represented here have often chosen to allow their music to evolve in stable structures and remain within static harmonic spaces even when the music becomes expressive and dramatic: Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Duruflé, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, Martin Ødegaard, Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arvo Pärt, Ola Gjeilo, Andrew Smith and Trond Kverno.