ABOUT
INGVILD LANGGÅRD is composer, singer, artist and performer, making music for stage, ensemble, film, and in several musical projects, educated at the National Academy of the Arts, Oslo.
Langgård´s music for stage has been shown at Nationaltheatret, Det Norske Teatret, Chicago Contemporary Art Museum, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati among others. Her artistic works and live performances are shown in museums, galleries and venues such as The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Kunstnerforbundet, Lydgalleriet, the ØYA Festival, Moldejazz, Oslo Jazzfestival, the Munch Museum and Henie Onstad Art Centre.
Langgård has released two albums under the name PHAEDRA on the Norwegian avant garde label Rune Grammofon. She is also making music in the duo RUNNERSHIGH with composer and producer Øyvind Røsrud, releasing the debut album Runnershigh in 2022, as well as composing the music for the feature film FULL DEKNING with director Arild Andresen (Storm Films 2022).
In collaboration with scenographer Signe Becker, she has produced and composed two concert performances; NEW SKIN, premiering at the Ultima Festival for Contemporary Music (2017), and SKELETON WOMAN, premiering at Oslo International Theater Festival at Black Box Teater (2020) and currently touring. SKELETON WOMAN was nominated for Heddaprisen 2022, in two categories, best sound design and best costumes.
Recent projects include composing music and performing live with the theatre piece UTISETA with director Lisa Lie at Det Norske Teatret (2022), performing live with SKELETON WOMAN at the Bodø Biennale 2022, Koreda 2022, and Universitets Aula 2023, and composing music for theater piece SVINGENDE SKYGGER at Trøndelag Teater (2023), amongst others.
Selected upcoming projects are music for the contemporary dance piece BANGER by Myhr/Langgård, a collaboration with choreographer Magnus Myhr, premiering at Black Box Theater January 2024; the duo show ÅRRINGER with artist Ingri Haraldsen at Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, opening February 2024, and composing music for the contemporary dance and vocal music piece ACOUSTIC ABJECT with choreorgrapher Tormod SKar Midtboe, premiering at Ultimafestivalen, September 2024.
Langgård co-founded the artist run gallery REKORD with Thora Dolve Balke and Eirin Støen in 2006, which was awarded Ny Musikk´s Pauline Hall Price 2009 for their work supporting new music in the Norwegian public. Langgård has been awarded several grants for her work, such as the Norwegian State´s Working Grant for young artists and Ingri Lindback Langaards Fund.