Tora Augestad’s versatility inspires composers, directors, conductors, and other musicians. Vocally, she is difficult to categorise – as a performer, she is flexible, expressive, precise, scenically convincing, and possesses an unusually strong personality. In 2004, she founded the ensemble Music for a While, known for its genre-crossing chamber music. Since 2010, Augestad has collaborated with Swiss director Christoph Marthaler on a total of 13 productions. She has an extensive European career and has been a soloist with orchestras both domestically and internationally.
Augestad was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2015. In 2018, she was named Performer of the Year by the Norwegian Society of Composers for her contribution to Norwegian contemporary music. In March 2019, her portrait album Portraying Passion with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra won the Spellemann Award for Classical Album of the Year.
In the autumn of 2019, her duo album Dialogues was released. Past & Presence is a composer portrait by Henrik Hellstenius, for which he received the Spellemann / Tonos Composer Award in 2021. In the summer of 2022, Augestad composed the commissioned work Til Verda for the Sēnja Children’s Festival.
Augestad was the festival profile at Nordland Music Festival in 2023 and at the Ålesund Chamber Music Festival in 2025. In the autumn of 2024, she released the album I et landskap together with Mathias Eick and Torbjørn Dyrud, where the three have set Norwegian poetry to music.
In spring 2025, her album Ingenting forsvinner was released, featuring her and the New Norwegian Brass Quintet performing music by Marcus Paus set to texts by Ole Paus. Her own compositions will be released on the album VårvillI in autumn 2025. In 2026, two other albums will be released: her next project with the Oslo Philharmonic and Schubert Lounge with the Oslo Sinfonietta.
Frontside Chamber Music Association has existed since 2019 and is largely driven by volunteer efforts, but we are highly dependent on additional financial sponsors and fundings. All contributions are used to engage fantastic musicians, rents of venues and all other things that make the festival a magical experience.
If you are interested in chamber music that goes beyond the ordinary, you should become a member! As a member, you are invited to the association’s annual meeting and participate in electing the board. You can also suggest activities for the association, thereby influencing future festivals and other events we organize. You also have the opportunity to volunteer during the festival, allowing you to enjoy wonderful chamber music without paying an entrance fee.
How do I become a member and support Frontside? Submit your information in the form below and pay the membership fee, and we will register you as a member immediately. Please also indicate which chamber music you love the most. Together with your personal information, this helps us better understand who our members are. How we handle your information can be read under the GDPR section.
You renew your membership every fall term – we’ll remind you! Alternatively, you can purchase a lifetime membership and thus become a permanent member with a one-time fee.
If you join as a new member in the spring, your payment also covers the following year’s membership.
How do I do it and what does it cost? You can pay the membership fee to Bankgiro 5318-7969 or via Swish 123 356 63 95. Always include your name and, if paying via bankgiro, your mobile number.
Welcome as a member!
For requests, feedback, and additional information, fill in your message in the form at the bottom or send an email to info@frontside-festival.se
The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, came into force within the EU on May 25, 2018.
How does Frontside handle its membership register? In our membership register, we store your name, address details, email address, phone number, and birth year. If you leave the association, we will retain your information for a maximum of seven (7) years before deleting it.
Who has access to my information? We register your details digitally in our membership register. Only you (first party) and individuals with trusted roles in the association (second party) have access to your information. No information is shared with third parties.
You can request to see what information we have collected about you at any time.
Validity? By becoming a member of the association, you enter into an agreement regarding which information about you can be stored with us and who has access to this information, as described above. This agreement is valid indefinitely, as long as you are a member of the Frontside Chamber Music Association.
Do I have the right to have my information deleted? According to GDPR, you have the right to have your information deleted, but you will also lose your membership in the association. To request this, send an email to info@frontside-festival.se and ask for your stored information to be deleted.
