JSB-Ensemble Oslo

Early music and contemporary music, performed by singers equally at home as soloists and chamber musicians

A vocal ensemble founded in 2019 by Julia Selina Blank and Halvor F. Melien.

Georg Philipp Telemann: Gloria

Missa brevis «Ein Kindelein so löbelich», TWV 9:5

JSB-Ensemble Oslo, Ensemble C4, Julia Selina Blank
Live recording · Gamle Aker kirke, Oslo · 30 August 2026 · Watch on YouTube

Video: Erik Maxim Kronda

From the project Jorden er som et barn

Artistic directors

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Julia Selina Blank
Julia Selina BlankConductor and artistic directorPhoto: Ingvild Festervoll Melien
Halvor F. Melien
Halvor F. MelienBaritone and artistic directorPhoto: Ingvild Festervoll Melien
JSB-Ensemble Oslo
Photo: David Dawson

JSB-Ensemble Oslo was founded in 2019 by the conductor Julia Selina Blank and the baritone Halvor F. Melien. The ensemble creates projects that bring the old and the new together: programmes in which Renaissance and Baroque music can stand alongside modernist contemporary music by composers such as Luciano Berio, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gérard Grisey and Kaija Saariaho. The programmes are usually performed one voice to a part.

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