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10–19 September 2026
Festival Programme 2026

Music at Yours

House concerts in and around Oslo

11–19 September 2026
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

Showings

Friday 11/09

12:00–20:00
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance using the link in the programme calendar.

Saturday 12/09

12:00–20:00
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance using the link in the programme calendar.

Sunday 13/09

12:00–20:00
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance using the link in the programme calendar.

Monday 14/09

12:00–20:00
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance using the link in the programme calendar.

Tuesday 15/09

12:00–20:00
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance using the link in the programme calendar.

Wednesday 16/09

12:00–20:00
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance using the link in the programme calendar.

Thursday 17/09

12:00–20:00
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance using the link in the programme calendar.

Friday 18/09

12:00–20:00
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance using the link in the programme calendar.

Saturday 19/09

12:00–20:00
Private homes in Oslo
100–150 kr

No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance using the link in the programme calendar.

Music, brought home.

You are invited into private homes, neighbourhoods and local communities across Oslo through a new series of house concerts.

At our house concerts, the music happens in gardens, kitchens and living rooms. You meet the musicians up close, hear their breathing, catch the scent of wood from the instruments. There's room for conversation, questions, and for hearing music you may never have encountered before, in informal surroundings.

The musicians you will meet are students from the Norwegian Academy of Music, musicians from the Lviv Philharmonic in Ukraine, and students from the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.

The programme is tailored to each individual home, ranging from experimental big band music to contemporary chamber music classics, music theatre, and even a concert for solo nose.

House Concert Calendar

Saturday 12/09

No-Fi at Haugerud
16:00–16:45 Haugerud

No-Fi at Haugerud

Open-ended pop music in a Morocco-inspired house. Part of Open House Oslo.

Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Noise and poetry in Røa
16:00–16:45 Røa

Noise and poetry in Røa

A pentagonal architect-designed house fills with Bellman’s 18th-century verses set to noise by Lars Myrvoll and Kristoffer Dyblie Erdal. Part of Open House Oslo.

Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Estonian and anatolian melodies reimagined in Frogner
17:00–17:45 Frogner

Estonian and anatolian melodies reimagined in Frogner

Ali Yarici's and Linda Lukas weave melodies into improvised and composed duets, in the intimate setting of a heritage-listed house.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.

Sunday 13/09

Children’s concert for nose and fan at Golia Velhus
14:00–14:45 Godlia

Children’s concert for nose and fan at Golia Velhus

Put your hearing and sense of smell to the test with Ole Ur Sæbø’s Gelukt and an improvisation for broken fan and voice by Felicia Oseland and Laban Bettels.
Free – reserve a place
Folk melodies reimagined and solo oboe at Bøler
15:00–15:45 Bøler

Folk melodies reimagined and solo oboe at Bøler

Folk melodies reimagined by Ali Yarici and Linda Lukas, and solo oboe with Stepan Syvokhip, in one of the artists’ residences at Trolltun.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Noise, poetry and noise at Frogner
16:00–16:45 Frogner

Noise, poetry and noise at Frogner

Music for your nose with Ola Ur Sæbø, and 18th-century verse set to noise music by Lars Myrvoll and Kristoffer Dyblie Erdal, in the brutalist Villa Spetaccolo. Part of Open House Oslo.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Lydmimikk and vrang at Vinderen
16:00–16:45 Vinderen

Lydmimikk and vrang at Vinderen

In a villa that once belonged to painter Jakob Weidemann, duo Vrang shapes distinctive soundscapes, while Kollektiv Lydmimikk improvises from text-based compositions.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Hardanger fiddle meets laptop at Bøler
17:00–17:45 Bøler

Hardanger fiddle meets laptop at Bøler

Music for Hardanger fiddle and laptop with Jon Hellum Brodal, in Anne-Cath. Vestly’s former home at Bøler.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Solo flute and fan at Manglerud.
18:00–18:40 Manglerud

Solo flute and fan at Manglerud.

Take the 72-step shortcut up to the house. Inside, you will meet flautist Nataliia Kozhushko-Maksymiv, and Felicia Oseland and Laban Bettels with a broken fan and voice.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.

Tuesday 15/09

Music for performer in costume at Alexander Kiellands plass
20:00–20:45 St. Hanshaugen

Music for performer in costume at Alexander Kiellands plass

In *Grandmothers Gardens: Around the Corner*, Guoste Tamulynaite transforms an entire apartment with homemade instruments, performance and sound.
Also Wednesday 16/09 at 18:00
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.

Wednesday 16/09

Music for performer in costume at Alexander Kiellands plass
18:00–18:45 St. Hanshaugen

Music for performer in costume at Alexander Kiellands plass

In *Grandmothers Gardens: Around the Corner*, Guoste Tamulynaite transforms an entire apartment with homemade instruments, performance and sound.
Also Tuesday 15/09 at 20:00
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Solo violin, vibraphone and dance at Ulsrud.
19:30–20:15 Ulsrud

Solo violin, vibraphone and dance at Ulsrud.

Vasilisa Koroleva on solo violin with Arabic-inspired rhythms, and music by Børge Furnes with dance and vibraphone, with Tilde Sæthre, Hedda Aker and Amund Falk Morgenstierne.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Fans and solo oboe at Frøen
20:00–20:40 Frøen

Fans and solo oboe at Frøen

Stepan Syvokhip on solo oboe shares the stage with duo Laban Bettels and Felicia Oseland on fan, voice and electronics.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.

Thursday 17/09

Extreme Virtuosity in Uranienborg terrasse
18:00–18:40 Frogner

Extreme Virtuosity in Uranienborg terrasse

House concerts were once held in this home dating from 1886. Now it is filled with sound again, as Paul Rodríguez Flys, Ynyr Pritchard and Nataliia Kozhushko-Maksymiv perform some of the most demanding works in the repertoire.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
At Røa, Hardanger Fiddle, Laptop, and Smell
18:00–18:40 Røa

At Røa, Hardanger Fiddle, Laptop, and Smell

In a cosy garden, Jon Hellum Brodal combines traditional dance-tune motifs on the Hardanger fiddle with live looping from his laptop, while Ola Ur Sæbø invites the audience to smell music.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.

Friday 18/09

Oboe og DIY-musikkteater på Sagene
19:00–19:40 Sagene

Oboe og DIY-musikkteater på Sagene

In a musician’s home in Sagene, Hjalmar Berner’s music drama for viola and homemade props shares the evening with oboist Stepan Syvokhip, performing from Baroque to contemporary.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.

Saturday 19/09

French wind quartet, solo bassoon and prepared cello at Salgshallen
11:30–13:30 Storgata

French wind quartet, solo bassoon and prepared cello at Salgshallen

At a former bazaar in Storgata, musicians from IEMA, the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, come together in a programme spanning from 1933 to today.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
In Smestad, oboe, violin, ghosts and glass ring out
14:30–15:15 Smestad

In Smestad, oboe, violin, ghosts and glass ring out

An atmospheric concert in a neighbourhood known for its ghosts, sometimes glimpsed at night out at Vestre gravlund.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
En ensemble afternoon in Holmenkollen
15:00–15:45 Holmenkollen

En ensemble afternoon in Holmenkollen

IEMA’s musicians move from Antheil’s early modernism to Tansy Davies and Magnus Lindberg, with the piano as a thread running through the programme.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Resonance and overtones in Godlia
16:00–16:45 Godlia

Resonance and overtones in Godlia

In an old neighbourhood of small houses and gardens between Tveita and Oppsal, Røskva stretches a chord progression over almost an hour in von Schweinitz’s KLANG auf Schön Berg La Monte Young.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
A violin duo and solo Ffute in Berg
18:00–18:40 Berg

A violin duo and solo Ffute in Berg

In an award-winning house in Berg, the violins of Suzune Masumoto and Paul Flys emerge from silence, while Nataliia Kozhushko-Maksymiv’s flute moves from Bach to today.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
Lydmimikk, vibraphone and dance at Røa
19:00–19:45 Røa

Lydmimikk, vibraphone and dance at Røa

Vibraphone and dance in Børge Furnes's Har du hørt, and Kollektiv Lydmimikk improvising freely from text-based compositions.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.
In Godlia: synth, piano, oboe, electronics and more
19:00–19:40 Godlia

In Godlia: synth, piano, oboe, electronics and more

In Godlia, a hidden gem in southeast Oslo, you will hear Stepan Syvokhip on solo oboe and experimental duo Vrang, with soundscapes of field recordings, beats and processed acoustic instruments.
Buy ticket from 150 kr
The hosts’ addresses will be emailed to ticket holders on the day of the concert.

Practical info

  • Hosts' addresses won't be published, but you can orient yourself by postcode. The exact address will be sent to ticket buyers on the day of the concert.
  • No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance.
  • Private homes have their own rules — you might be asked to take off your shoes, or there could be pets wandering around. We'll try to share this kind of information for each home on ticket.co.
  • There are usually several concerts on the same day in the same neighbourhood, so take the time to enjoy a few of them, and get to know Oslo's neighbourhoods in between!
  • Ultima has zero tolerance for discrimination and harassment. This applies especially at the house concerts, where we're guests in other people's private homes. Read Ultima's guidelines here.

About the houses

Most of the houses were found by members of our House Concert Committee (HKK), local champions in their neighbourhoods who want more music and cultural life in their districts. Some homes signed up through an open form on our website. Thank you so much to everyone who registered! And finally, a handful of homes of special architectural interest have joined the programme through our partnership with the festival Open House Oslo.

Ola Ur Sæbø. Photo: Stine Marie Korsfur

Vrang: Nora Klungresæter, Susanne Xin.

Jon Brodal. Photo: Isa Holngren

Hjalmar Bjerner

Laban Bettels

Lars Myrvoll og Kristoffer Dyblie Erdal. Photo: Sofia Nordlien

Kollektiv Lydmimikk

Guoste Tamulynaite: Grandmothers around the garden. Foto: Jan Martin Gismervik

No-Fi. Photo: Renate Thor

IEMA. Photo: Wonge Bergmann

Felicia Oseland. Photo: Eigil Fagerland Sjursen

Røskva: Børge Tandberg Brustad, Laura M. Beer Kumwenda, Elias Nurmi Schomers. Photo: Marco Slaviero

Vasilisa Koroleva.

House Concert Committee

  • Christel Stockhausen-Hektoen
  • Wendy Greenberg
  • Anne Kjersti Goberg
  • Nikolas Dossev
  • Noel Rubli

Producer

  • Nadia Dolhopolova

Coordinator

  • Thea Wang

Supported by

  • Sparebankstiftelsen DNB
  • The European Union as part of the ULYSSES Platform
  • Fritt Ord Foundation
  • Furestiftelsen

In collaboration with

  • Norwegian Academy of Music
  • Lviv National Philharmonic
  • International Ensemble Modern Academy
  • Open House Oslo
Festival Programme 2026

Visiting Address

Ultima
Øvre Slottsgate 3
0157 Oslo

Postal Address

Ultima c/o Sentralen
Postboks 183 Sentrum
0102 Oslo

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