Dragefjellets Musikkorps
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Dragefjellets Musikkorps also known as the Bergen Symphonic Band is an elite division amateur wind band in Bergen, Norway. It traces it's beginnings from 1908 as the school band at the Dragefjelle School. On September 1, 1914, it was formed as Norway's first amateur wind band. The band has won the Norwegian Wind Band Championships five times: 1981, 1983, 1988, 1992 and 2006. It has close ties with the Grieg Academy of music (at the University of Bergen), and regularly rehearses there.
Timeline:
- 1908 - Dragefjellets Skole Musikkorps started.
- 1914 - Dragefjellets Musikkorps started by older members of the school band, with school headmaster Sverre Vigander.
- 1918 - The band has 18 members.
- 1921 - (June 29) Band purchases property, outside of Bergen, on which the cottage Dragehytten will eventually sit.[1].
- 1958 - Records its first record album.
- 1968 - Women first allowed to join the band.
- 1981 - Band wins the Norwegian national championships for first time.
- 1982 - Records its second album.
- 1983 - Band wins the Norwegian national championships for second time.
- 1987 - Lars Kristian Brynildsen, principal clarinet in the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, becomes music director.
- 1988 - Band wins the Norwegian national championships for third time.
- 1989 - Band receives 1st prize with distinction, at World Band Championship competition in the Netherlands.
- 1992 - Band wins the Norwegian national championships for fourth time.
- 1993 - Records its third album, its first on CD format.
- 2002 - Band participates in the French Reeds Riviera Festival in la Croix Valmer, France.
- 2005 - Former music director, Lars Kristian Brynildsen, dies.
- 2006 - Band wins the Norwegian national championships for fifth time, releases fourth album, Merit.
- 2007 - Band wins the Norwegian national championships for sixth time.
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