Atmospheric Olsok (St. Olav’s Day) concert.

The recorder duo Dahl/Steinsland Band has been working together since 2018. They specialise in new music and traditional music for two recorders. Several works have been written for the duo, such as Waning Crescent (2020) by Norwegian composer Lene Grenager, Dialogues (2023) by Norwegian composer Kjell Mørk Karlsen and Three Norwegian Folk Songs (2022, for trio) by Japanese composer Yuji Nomi. Two more commissioned works will arrive in 2025: Ombre by Bjørn Kruse, and a piece by Jon Øivind Næss.

Dahl/Steinsland Band played at the concert series PÅ! in the Munch Museum in Oslo in March 2022. In the autumn of 2023, the duo played at the new music festival ‘Høstriss’ in Fredrikstad and at Kunsthallen in Kristiansand. A tour to Japan with concerts in Nara, Kobe and Tokyo was realised in February 2024. The Japan tour was supported by Sasakawa Norway and the Norwegian Arts Council.

In October 2025, Dahl/Steinsland Band can be heard and seen at the Japanese/Norwegian microfestival for music and poetry in Oslo, as well as in Slidredomen in Valdres, together with musician colleagues from Japan. The duo has had several performances in smaller art galleries and in connection with vernissages.

Caroline Eidsten Dahl is one of Norway's most active recorder players, a founder and member of several ensembles: Woodpeckers Recorder Quartet, Ensemble C4, Ensemble Freithoff and Bragernes Barokk. She performs around the Nordic region and Europe with her ensembles, in 2024 she was in Japan with the recorder duo Dahl/Steinsland Band.

Caroline's first solo album was released in 2014: Blockbird. Norwegian recorder music on LAWO Classics, which received rave reviews at home and abroad. Since then she has released four solo albums and appears on several CDs as a chamber musician. Eidsten Dahl has received the Norwegian State Artist Grant for three years from 2023-2025.

Ruth Solveig Steinsland specialises as a performer of early and contemporary music on recorders and historical oboes. She has played with the Swedish Baroque Orchestra, Rebarock, Concerto Copenhagen, Barokkanerne and most Nordic baroque ensembles.

During her studies and early in her career, contemporary music was the most important genre in Steinsland's performances. This resulted, among other things, in the performance of the solo piece Meditation by the Japanese composer Riohei Hirose at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's ‘Talentiaden’ in 1991, as well as the solo piece Black Intention by the Japanese composer Maku Ishi at the Purcell Room in London (1994). In addition, Steinsland has participated in contemporary music productions with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra, the Norwegian Wind Ensemble and the Oslo Sinfonietta.

Steinsland has now resumed writing new music for recorder in the duo Dahl/Steinsland Band. In addition, traditional music on the popular sea flute is an important part of her repertoire.

Duration: 1 hour
Organiser: Dahl/Steinsland Band