Piazzolla and Beethoven’s Seventh

Classical series

20. February 2026 at 19:30

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2026_02_20 Ana Maria Patino Osorio photo 1 Óscar Bernal

Classical series

Friday 20. February 2026 at 19:30

Fartein Valen, Stavanger konserthus

Program

Ariel Ramirez: Alfonsina Y El Mar
Julio Bocazzi: Baldosa Floja
Astor Piazzolla: Marrón y Azul
Astor Piazzolla: Resurrección Del Angel
Astor Piazzolla: Los Pajaros Perdidos
Josè Damès: Nada
Carlos Gardel: Por Una Cabeza
Mariano Mores: Tanguera
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Contributors

Ana Maria Patiño-Osorio, conductor
Åsbjørg Ryeng, bandoneon
Atle Sponberg, violin
Terje Skomedal, concertmaster
Elisabet Skaar Sijpkens, host

Ana Maria Patiño-Osorio

Conductor

Ana María Patiño-Osorio is a Colombian conductor. She becomes Music Director of Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín in 2026 and is the 2025/26 Dudamel Conducting Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She received Second Prize, the Audience Prize and the Youth Jury Prize at the 2024 Malko Competition in Copenhagen.

She has conducted Euskadiko Orkestra, Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro de RTVE, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Arctic Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Her previous engagements include the Orchestre national Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Geneva Camerata, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia and Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá.

She has worked with Iberacademy Orchestra since 2015 and has led projects at Mozartwoche Salzburg, on a European tour with Orquesta Juvenil Sinfonía por el Perú and Juan Diego Flórez, and with The Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

Patiño-Osorio studied at Universidad EAFIT and at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with Johannes Schlaefli. She served as Assistant Conductor of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande from 2022 to 2024, and her distinctions include the National Prize from Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (2021), a fellowship with Dirigentenforum des Deutschen Musikrates (2019), and reaching the final of the Solti International Conducting Competition (2020).
Åsbjørg Ryeng

Soloist

Åsbjørg Ryeng is a Norwegian bandoneón player from Trondheim. She has played the bandoneón for more than twenty years and completed her master’s degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2019.

Ryeng is active as a chamber musician and has in recent years appeared as a soloist with, among others, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, in addition to several chamber orchestras.

She specialises in Argentine tango, with a repertoire that includes both traditional and contemporary tango as well as works connected to the genre’s further development. Her work in tango spans solo performances, chamber music projects and collaborations with ensembles and musicians rooted in the tango tradition.

In addition to tango, she has taken part in cross‑genre projects and has collaborated with Norwegian artists within, among others, Sámi joik and jazz.
Atle Sponberg

Soloist

Atle Sponberg is a versatile violinist with extensive experience as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader. He has toured throughout Norway and performed at festivals in several European countries as well as in the USA and Australia.

A central part of Sponberg’s artistic work is his engagement with early music and Argentine tango. He has performed tango with a wide range of ensembles and collaborated with bandoneonists such as Marcelo Nisinman, Åsbjørg Ryeng, Andreas Rokkseth and Per Arne Glorvigen. In 2022, he won the Spellemann Award for the album Tango Visions, together with Håkon Magnar Skogstad.

Sponberg has contributed to several recordings, including Quietude with Gjøvik Sinfonietta, productions with Tango for 3 and the Engegård Quartet, as well as recordings of works by composers such as Antonio Bibalo, Randall Meyers and Ståle Kleiberg.

Sponberg is a member of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and artistic director of Orkester Innlandet. He plays a violin built by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in Milan in 1752, on loan from the Sparebankstiftelsen.