Free City Concert
Head down to the city center and take your seat alongside hundreds of other music lovers. The perfect start to another summer day in Risør, the last week of June.
Program
A full overview of this years events, the music being performed, and the artists performing. Buy your tickets directly if you know what you want.
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Tuesday 23 June
Opening Concert
Tine Thing Helseth invites you to a spectacular opening with Haydn and Schumann, among others. Welcome to Risør Chamber Music Festival 2026!
Midsummer Celebration at Torvet
We're inviting the whole city to the main square on the most beautiful summer day of the year. Classical delights and good vibes, plus food and drinks. Welcome!
Wednesday 24 June
Friends' Breakfast
Exclusively for our Friends of the Festival at the venerable Risør Town Hall. There will be food, drinks, music, and a chance to meet Tine and the administration.
Invitation from Brita & Jan Egil
The good folks of Risør open their homes for your chamber music pleasure. Here you'll get up close and personal with the artists and the music.
Free City Concert
Head down to the city center and take your seat alongside hundreds of other music lovers. The perfect start to another summer day in Risør, the last week of June.
Mari's Treasures
Close your eyes and picture this: Soprano Mari Eriksmoen in a summer dress in a lush green garden, her world-renowned voice filling your entire heart.
Gold is forever
Quality music endures everything. You can tear and wear, twist and turn, take full liberties with the original - and the quality still shines through.
Back to the Future
What comes to mind when you hear Beethoven? That old classic we all "know" the sound of. You might just have to rethink that after this concert.
POING does Jokke
After last year's smash success, POING delivers another celebration of a 40-year-old album. This time, rock legend Jokke takes center stage.
Thursday 25 June
Invitation from Per Christen & Julie
The good folks of Risør open their homes for your chamber music pleasure. Here you'll get up close and personal with the artists and the music.
Free City Concert
Head down to the city center and take your seat alongside hundreds of other music lovers. The perfect start to another summer day in Risør, the last week of June.
Tine with friends
Tine Thing Helseth's intimate gathering. The concert that sells out fastest every year, which surprises no one. This is a Risør summer distilled to perfection.
Joseph Haydn: A portrait
This year's festival takes a closer look at this giant of Western music. So much of what we call classical music today was defined by Haydn.
The Pioneers
Haydn and Beethoven were trailblazers, but they weren't alone in being first with new ideas and approaches. Here we celebrate those who took the leap.
Film Music & Quiz
Are you under 25? Then you get free entry. But only if you bring your competitive spirit and the people you trust most for battle in a fierce music quiz.
Marius Neset Quintet
Last year, everyone was talking about Marius Neset's artistry and his week-long triumph in Risør. So we're inviting him back for an exclusive concert where he'll show us why he and his band own jazz-Europe right now.
Friday 26 June
Invitation from Bibiche & Arnfinn
The good folks of Risør open their homes for your chamber music pleasure. Here you'll get up close and personal with the artists and the music.
Free City Concert
Head down to the city center and take your seat alongside hundreds of other music lovers. The perfect start to another summer day in Risør, the last week of June.
Tour de Risør
Three concerts at three different venues. Meet at the town square, and we'll stroll together through Norway's most beautiful summer town, enjoying a musical smorgasbord.
Mahler & Schumann
Two married couples, but quite different marriages. Yet posterity should be grateful that these four people found time to write music amidst everything else.
UNDER: Dance in Risør
Dancer Cecilie Lindeman Steen and cellist Audun Sandvik interplay on all the thoughts and feelings surrounding the notion of being alone.
Romeo & Juliet
The world's most famous lovers have inspired more music than we can perform. So we've selected our favorites from Prokofiev and Bernstein.
The Golden Chambers
This is not a regular concert. It's the start of the weekend with the world's finest musicians letting loose and letting their hair down.
Saturday 27 June
Invitation from Solveig & Bjørn
The good folks of Risør open their homes for your chamber music pleasure. Here you'll get up close and personal with the artists and the music.
Free City Concert
Head down to the city center and take your seat alongside hundreds of other music lovers. The perfect start to another summer day in Risør, the last week of June.
Intimate with Alexandra Dariescu
World star Alexandra Dariescu as close and intimate as only Risør can offer. Come hear what happens when technique and artistry merge into a higher unity.
Mr. Ping in Hollenderhagen
A penguin, an egg, and a box full of sounds. Mr. Ping has traveled all the way from the icy Antarctic to the summer warmth of Hollenderhagen to play fo all children.
My choice is: ...
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson chose April, but what will this year's artists choose when asked to select their favorite composers and works?
Grand Concert on Stangholmen
Summer, sun and Sami sounds. Kajsa Balto and Emilia Amper bring the folk party to Stangholmen alongside the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra.
Sunday 28 June
Tekstmeditasjon
En stille stund i Risør kirke i samarbeid med Risør menighet, der ord og musikk veves sammen for å gi ro, nærvær og ettertanke.
Seasons in the Main Square
A clever pairing of Vivaldi and Piazzolla. Because when it's summer for one, it's winter for the other. Right beneath the Risør sun.
The Festival Choir: Nelson Mass
Joseph Haydn and the Festival Choir are this year's choral highlight. Brilliant amateurs and professional musicians come together in the magnificent Frydendal Church.
Heart Strings
This year's closing concert is inspired by the emotional entanglements between several composers. We also invite the Festival Choir to Risør Church.
