GRO SIRI Ognøy Johansen

Gro Siri Ognøy Johansen, soprano, has a degree in classical voice from Rogaland Music Conservatory and a diploma in Gregorian chant from National Superieur de Musique et Danse in Paris. She has been a founding member of the  Paris- based vocal ensemble Dialogos, whose recording Terra Adriatica won the Diapason dÓr and Le Choc in Le Monde de Musique. She has also recorded with Musica reservata, Caracas and Modus ensemble, Oslo. She has worked in Theatre productions and musicals at the Norwegian Theatre in Oslo. In 1999 she founded Modus Center for Medieval Music in Oslo, where, as artistic director, she organizes Oslo Medival Music Festival every summer. She teaches courses in vocal and gestalt therapy. Since 2012 she has specialized in music productions for children with Modus ensemble.

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Artist-in-residence June 2015