In 2010 Ketil Bjrnstad heard violinist Guro Kleven Hagen for the first time. That lasting impression would years later result in a collaboration and the brand new album The Personal Gallery.

The music on this album is, with very few exceptions, written shortly before being recorded, and as a regard to how Guro could take the compositions one step further and deepen them with her own timbral and melodic expression. A musical and subjective picture gallery, across time. The Personal Gallery, if you will; the pictures we have within ourselves at all times. The most important and personal ones.