Music at Yours

Music, brought home.

You are invited into private homes, neighbourhoods and local communities across Oslo through a new series of house concerts.

At our house concerts, the music happens in gardens, kitchens and living rooms. You meet the musicians up close, hear their breathing, catch the scent of wood from the instruments. There's room for conversation, questions, and for hearing music you may never have encountered before, in informal surroundings.

The musicians you will meet are students from the Norwegian Academy of Music, musicians from the Lviv Philharmonic in Ukraine, and students from the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.

The programme is tailored to each individual home, ranging from experimental big band music to contemporary chamber music classics, music theatre, and even a concert for solo nose.

Practical info

• Hosts' addresses won't be published, but you can orient yourself by postcode. The exact address will be sent to ticket buyers on the day of the concert.
• No ticket sales at the door for house concerts, so please book in advance.
• Private homes have their own rules — you might be asked to take off your shoes, or there could be pets wandering around. We'll try to share this kind of information for each home, but we ask for your understanding that we can't control every circumstance in such personal settings.
• Most hosts will welcome you with coffee and something to nibble on.
• There are usually several concerts on the same day in the same neighbourhood, so take the time to enjoy a few of them, and get to know Oslo's neighbourhoods in between!
• Ultima has zero tolerance for discrimination and harassment based on gender, ethnic or cultural background, beliefs, sexual orientation or disability, and aims to be a safe, inclusive festival for everyone. This applies especially at the house concerts, where we're guests in other people's private homes, so we ask you to be extra mindful. Read Ultima's guidelines here.

About the houses

Most of the houses were found by members of our House Concert Committee (HKK), local champions in their neighbourhoods who want more music and cultural life in their districts. Some homes signed up through an open form on our website. Thank you so much to everyone who registered! And finally, a handful of homes of special architectural interest have joined the programme through our partnership with the festival Open House Oslo.