Tanja Orning

Tanja Orning

Tanja Orning is one of the leading contemporary cellists in Norway. After studies in Oslo, in London with Willian Pleeth and at Indiana University with János Starker as a Fulbright Research Fellow, she held the position as a co-principal cellist in the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra from 1994 to 2000 when she left for Oslo in order to realise a number of projects as a performer, improviser and composer.

Ornings current projects: asimisimasa, Cellotronics (solo), Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, Dr.Ox. with Natasha Barrett, and BOA trio with Tora Augestad and Morten Barrikmo. She plays regularly with the Oslo Sinfonietta and Ensemble Ernst.

Former collaborations: Ensemble Polygon, Kyberia, Ametri String Quartet, Plus Minus Ensemble and the rock band Wunderkammer. She has commissioned and premiered approx. 60 chamber music- and solo works by Norwegian composers such as Natasha Barrett, Maja Ratkje, Eivind Buene, Lene Grenager, Olav Anton Thommesen and Ole Henrik Moe.

Orning has participated in numerous recordings of contemporary music and in 2005 she released her solo-CD Cellotronics. In 2000 she received a 2 year state grant for performing artists. She has performed at festivals such as Huddersfield, Ultima, Borealis, Fri Resonans, Kontak, Ilios, Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival, Olavsfestdagene, Trondheim kammermusikkfest, Molde jazzfestival, Kongsberg jazzfestival, Vossajazz, Novara Jazz Festival, Shared Sounds (Berlin) and Taktlos (Zürich).

Currently Orning is undertaking research in contemporary performance practice through studying and performing works by Lachenmann, Hübler and Feldman at the Norwegian Academy of Music.