Music in our time — for our time

By bringing talented Stavanger-based musicians together with international musicians and composers for unique orchestra projects, Kitchen Orchestra breaks musical boundaries.

Via improvisation-based work methods and collaborations with well-known orchestra leaders, Kitchen Orchestra has developed a sound and playing style that experiments with the relationship between the individual and the ensemble. 

The orchestra doesn’t have a permeant leader, but rather collaborates with external leaders or leaders from their own ranks to put their unmistakeable sound on different projects, to create new music, and to stretch out their own flexibility.

Kitchen Orchestra has performed under the leadership of, among others, Lotte Anker, Anthony Pateras, Evan Parker, Keith Tippett, Dave Kane, Per Zanussi, Franz Hautzinger and Øyvind Torvund.  They have collaborated with the internationally renowned dance group Inbal Pinto and collaborated with Japanese visual artists Hiraku Suzuki and Tetsuya Nagato.

From 2010-2013, the German jazz legend Alexander Schlippenbach was the orchestra’s artist in residence.