WATCH

 With Watch – Music for Strings, Piano and Electronics, Norwegian composer Jostein Stalheim invites listeners into an expansive and multidimensional sonic world where acoustic and electronic elements converge. Featuring a stellar cast of performers—including cellist Amalie Stalheim, violinist Eva Camilla Eikaas Stalheim, double bassist Callum Hay Jennings, pianist Sergej Osadchuk, the Vertavo String Quartet, and the Bergen String Quartet—this new album presents a bold and immersive musical journey.

Known for his genre-defying work, Jostein Stalheim crafts compositions that straddle the classical and the experimental, the lyrical and the abstract. In Watch, he draws inspiration from both the intimacy of chamber music and the limitless potential of electronic manipulation. The result is a strikingly contemporary collection of works that reflect on time, memory, movement, and the act of watching—inward and outward.

From the intense dialog between acoustic strings and digital textures to the introspective piano lines that dissolve into immersive soundscapes, Watch is as much an emotional experience as it is a sonic exploration. Each piece is carefully shaped by Stalheim’s meticulous attention to timbre and space and brought to life by a lineup of some of the Nordic region’s most respected performers.

Stalheim’s collaboration with family members, including celebrated soloist Amalie Stalheim and rising violinist Eva Camilla Eikaas Stalheim, lends the album a deeply personal dimension, balancing innovation with emotional warmth.

Watch – Music for Strings, Piano and Electronics reaffirms Jostein Stalheim’s position as a vital voice in contemporary music, blending tradition and technology with poetic clarity.