Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki

(1981-)

Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki’s music is partly or fully based on concepts found in an audiovisual crossroads. Piasecki often seeks to combine the two forms of expression or to blur the borders between them. In several works he draws aspects of reality into the music, for instance by articulating the fragility in the concert situation. 

In the clarinet concert "Hiding for Rosetta" ‘reality’ is the meeting between the audience’s expectations of a professional musician and the soloist’s lack of instrumental skills. A bassoonist plays the clarinet solo, and with this twist Piasecki inscribes a certain fragility into the piece.  

In the opera "Falling Awake", Piasecki works with other elements of resistance, creating a sort of authenticity or reality: The countertenor sings while hanging on a rotating metal wheel, and after a dramatic assault, the child alto singer refuses to sing along. In the cello duo "Duet for One", two musicians play one cello, and one hears the sound from both parts of the string. To operate the instrument the musicians need to stand in a close embrace, and this intimate situation affects the experience of the music.

The piece for glass harp and glass vases, "Piece of Glass", revolves around the fragile character of the glass, and to emphasize this condition the soloist plays with hammers. The inevitable fact that the glass will break sooner or later, adds an experience of frailty and melancholy to the music.

Thus a sense of synergy between the abstract, scored music and the concrete reality, in which the music is performed, often arises in Piasecki’s pieces. In this way he emphasizes a sense of the real in the music. Furthermore the focus on the concrete reality of the music allows a hint of a visual narrative usually belonging to the more dramatic forms of expression.

Piasecki studied composition as part of the soloist programme at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus under Simon Steen-Andersen. He has a Master in composition from The Royal Danish Academy of Music where he studied with Bent Sørensen and Hans Abrahamsen.

World famous ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Intercontemporain have performed Piasecki’s music. His clarinet concert was awarded best music piece of 2014 by the Danish Arts Foundation.

Available Works

  1. Falling Awake

    2017 • Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki

    Music Drama and Stage Music

    70 minutes

    Soprano, child alto, countertenor, fl, cl, pno, 2 perc, vl, vla, vlc, cb, guit

  2. Gemmer mig for Rosetta

    2014 • Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki

    7+ Instruments

    9 minutes

    Clarinet concertino for a bassoonist + 1.1.1.0/1.0.1.0/perc/2 bottle players/1.1.1.1.1




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News

  1. Edition·S at KLANG 2023

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    Edition·S at KLANG 2023

  2. Work Grants from the Danish Arts Foundation 2023

    nominations / awards

    Work Grants from the Danish Arts Foundation 2023

  3. Work Grants from the Danish Arts Foundation

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    Work Grants from the Danish Arts Foundation

  1. Significant work grants for Edition·S composers

    nominations / awards

    Significant work grants for Edition·S composers

  2. Digital Concert Series

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    Digital Concert Series

  3. Significant grants for Edition·S composers 2020

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    Significant grants for Edition·S composers 2020

  4. Falling Awake arouses attention and debate at the international opera conference in Rotterdam

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    Falling Awake arouses attention and debate at the international opera conference in Rotterdam

  5. Schwanenflügel Piasecki premiere at SPOR festival

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    Schwanenflügel Piasecki premiere at SPOR festival

  6. Piasecki wins international music theatre competition

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    Piasecki wins international music theatre competition

  7. Significant work grants for Edition·S composers

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    Significant work grants for Edition·S composers

  8. Praise for Falling Awake, MONO and Civilizations

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    Praise for Falling Awake, MONO and Civilizations

  9. “Falling Awake” – New opera rebels against its creator

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    “Falling Awake” – New opera rebels against its creator

  10. Danish Arts Foundation grants for Edition·S composers

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    Danish Arts Foundation grants for Edition·S composers

  11. All-in on solo cello at CPH LiteraturHaus

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    All-in on solo cello at CPH LiteraturHaus

  12. Edition·S composers nominated for ISCM World New Music Days

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    Edition·S composers nominated for ISCM World New Music Days

  13. New composers at Edition·S

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    New composers at Edition·S

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Calendar

  1. November 2022
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    November

    Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki: Rudy

    time19:30

    location Skuespilhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark

    performed by CRAS ensemble

  3. 30

    November

    Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki: Rudy

    time19:30

    location Skuespilhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark

    performed by CRAS ensemble

  1. December 2022
  2. 1

    December

    Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki: Rudy

    time19:30

    location Skuespilhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark

    performed by CRAS ensemble