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Jesper
Garde Kongshaug, Lighting designer, works within the fields of
theater, opera, ballet, tv & architecture.
Jesper Kongshaug works locally as well as international.
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Jesper Kongshaug was educated in the USA, Japan and England and has worked on numerous theatre performances, opera, ballet, art exhibitions and TV.
He has created unique lighting designs for The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, most recently Wagner's Das Ring des Nibelungens (see www.kgl-teater.dk), for Den jyske Opera, for Hotel Pro Forma and for theatres in Norway, Sweden and Germany.
He also has done architechtural lighting design, most recently in Kastrup Copenhagen Airport. A centrally located daylight-sensor and atomic-clock controlled complete restaurant installation.
"Højbro Plads" is his most recent work. A complete redesign of an old central square in Copenhagen.
Lighting Design forthe new Royal Playhouse has gievn Jesper Kongshaug The Danish Lightingprize 2008. Also winner of Nordic Lighting Prize, Helsinki, Nov. 2008.
JK won an invited architechtural competition in collaboration with Architechs Erik Brandt Dam + Nicolai Bo Andersen of refurbishing The Kings Garden of Odense, starting installation in 2008.
Jesper Kongshaug teaches at Danmarks Designskole (Danish School for Design) and the National Danish Theatre School and acts as consultant for museums, the Tivoli Gardens, private firms and public institutions.
Jesper Kongshaug has created several high profile large-scale light installations both outdoors and indoors, including the 13 km long Vinterlys (Winterlight) during Copenhagen European Cultural Capital 1996.
His international works include extensive travels with Hotel Pro Forma's "Operation ORFEO" from 1994, "The Magic Flute" in Boston Lyric Opera, USA, and the musical production of "Hair", a Betty Nansen Theatre production at The Theatre Mogador in Paris, "Rosenkavalier" at Opera de Lyon in France, "Le Grand Macabre" at San Francisco Opera, USA and "L'Ecole des Femmes" in Dramaten, Stockholm.
In 2004 he did "GOYA" with Placido Domingo for Klangbogen Festival at "Theater an der Wien" in Vienna, where he returned in 2007 for "Le Nozze di Figaro".
In the US he also did a Jesper Just Opera for Performa 05 in NYC at Donna Karan Studio.
In 2007 he went to Stockholms Opera and did lighting design for "La Traviata".
July 2008 in Theater an der Wien, he did "Le nozze de Figaro" .
In October he did "Don Carlos" in Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Opera and "The Nutcracker" ballet at The Rpyal Ballet.
International Agent Management : HarrisonParrott Ltd., London.
www.harrisonparrott.com
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