Stefan Veselka
Stefan Veselka is a Norwegian classical pianist and conductor. Biography and career Stefan Veselka was born in Stavanger, Norway. He studied piano at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and then moved to the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin where he completed his studies. Debuting as a performer in 1985, Veselka has won prizes in many national and international piano competitions, including the Luxemburg European Piano Competition, the Vienna Beethoven International Piano Competition and the Berlin A. Schnabel Competition. In 1988 he was awarded the SHELL Prize. Veselka has performed in many major venues and festivals, both as soloist and with orchestras. He has performed with the Berliner Philharmonie, Musikverein Wien, and Bridgewater Hall, and at the Berliner Festwochen, at the Ruhr Festival, Festival de Musique Divonne, Schubertiade Feldkirch, Moravian Spring and Piano 2000 Festival. As a conductor, Veselka has performed in opera houses and concerts in cities such as Berlin, Brno, Flens ...
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ...
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