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  1. Run Time Anomaly by Simon Steen-Andersen

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    Run Time Anomaly by Simon Steen-Andersen

    30. October 2025

    A new work by Simon Steen-Andersen: Run Time Anomaly is premiered on 8 & 9 November. The live, site-specific performance transforms the iconic Akademie der Künste building in Berlin into a stage, an instrument, and a portal into parallel realities.
  2. It’s brought up a lot of thoughts on works not written and works not heard.

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    It’s brought up a lot of thoughts on works not written and works not heard.

    28. October 2025

    On 30 October, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra will premiere Juliana Hodkinson's orchestral arrangements of pieces by Clara W. Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn. In this interview Hodkinson reflects on the pieces and the process of orchestrating them.
  3. New book compiles Else Marie Pade’s groundbreaking electronic music

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    New book compiles Else Marie Pade’s groundbreaking electronic music

    24. October 2025

    Complete Electronic Works 1955–2012 provides the most comprehensive overview to date of Pade’s electronic music. The book will be released on 31 October and celebrated with a listening session and talk on 11 November.
  4. FORTSAT GO' WEEKEND '25

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    FORTSAT GO' WEEKEND '25

    7. October 2025

    Thursday, November 13, we invite you once again to a Thursday Bar a little out of the ordinary.
  5. A musical ritual at the art museum

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    A musical ritual at the art museum

    6. October 2025

    Through a decade, the Mikkelborg Riessler Siegel Trio has met every summer at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, creating a shared musical voice shaped by art and nature. Soon you can experience the music on a new album and live at Louisiana.
  6. Ejnar Kanding Portrait Concert

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    Ejnar Kanding Portrait Concert

    5. October 2025

    Ensemble Contemporánea presents an Ejnar Kanding portrait concert at Ny Musik i Birkerød on Sunday 2 November.
  7. Mette Nielsen turns 40

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    Mette Nielsen turns 40

    26. September 2025

    In Mette Nielsen’s music, microtones, frictions, and chance become the driving force behind works that can be intimate, playful, and grand. On September 28, she turns 40.
  8. Album release from Ejnar Kanding

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    Album release from Ejnar Kanding

    25. September 2025

    A new album by Ejnar Kanding is released on Friday 26 September: A Breath in the Void recorded by Kirstine Schneider and Rikke Sandberg.
  9. New music theatre by Steen-Andersen

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    New music theatre by Steen-Andersen

    16. September 2025

    Past and present, fiction and reality, opera and life merge in a new dreamlike music theatre piece by Simon Steen-Andersen; Wie du warst! Wie du bist! set to premiere on 20 September at the Bernhard Theater (Opernhaus Zürich).
  10. New piece by Gísladóttir in “hypnotic music marathon”

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    New piece by Gísladóttir in “hypnotic music marathon”

    8. September 2025

    Bára Gísladóttir’s new piece all be, all play, all slaughter is premiered at Ultima Festival at what is described to be a fluid concert experience where daydreams and sonic streams merge.
  11. Mads Emil Dreyer: Entering the Domain of the String Quartet

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    Mads Emil Dreyer: Entering the Domain of the String Quartet

    5. September 2025

    When Dreyer’s new work receives its world premiere on September 24, he steps into the territory of one of the most tradition-laden formats of all: the string quartet. The piece is written for the award-winning American ensemble JACK Quartet.
  12. Skræl og kød (Peel and Flesh) - New choral work by Mette Nielsen

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    Skræl og kød (Peel and Flesh) - New choral work by Mette Nielsen

    4. September 2025

    A new work by Mette Nielsen, Skræl og kød, is premiered by Ars Nova Copenhagen on 25 September.
  13. The Spaces of Power

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    The Spaces of Power

    27. August 2025

    Rønsholdt's three-year opera saga premieres during Aarhus Festival with performances on 4-6 September. We asked the composer to tell us more about the work, the ideas and the process behind it.
  14. I always like to play with audience confusion, the feeling of 'what the hell is going on?'

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    I always like to play with audience confusion, the feeling of 'what the hell is going on?'

    15. August 2025

    James Ditlevsen Black's 'Songs Old and New' is performed on 20 August at Copenhagen Opera Festival. We asked the composer a few questions about the darkly humorous normcore mockumentary opera.
  15. “Griebel’s incredible willpower is a huge inspiration”

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    “Griebel’s incredible willpower is a huge inspiration”

    13. August 2025

    On 18 August at Copenhagen Opera Festival, soprano Laura Helene Hansen is host and singer at a concert-tribute to Tekla Griebel Wandall. We asked Hansen a few questions about her relationship with the historically overlooked composer.
  16. James Ditlevsen Black's mockumentary at Copenhagen Opera Festival

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    James Ditlevsen Black's mockumentary at Copenhagen Opera Festival

    12. August 2025

    An office landscape holds stories of friendship, anger, love – and running. A darkly humorous mockumentary in the style of ‘The Office’ meets contemporary classical music in "Songs old and new" performed on Wednesday 20 August.
  17. Rønsholdt's three-year opera saga premieres in the Court in Aarhus

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    Rønsholdt's three-year opera saga premieres in the Court in Aarhus

    7. August 2025

    The Court in Aarhus sets the stage for the first part of the ambitious three-year opera The Right of the Strong – The Duty of the Weak, which premieres during Aarhus Festival with performances 4-6 September.
  18. Two new releases in the EMP series

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    Two new releases in the EMP series

    7. August 2025

    On 8 August Dacapo Records releases to new albums: EMP 10 presents Else Marie Pade's experiments with the phenomenon known as beatings on Svævninger, while EMP 11 focuses on her pioneering work with electronic soundscapes for fairy tales and radio plays.
  19. Tekla Griebel Wandall tribute at the Copenhagen Opera Festival

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    Tekla Griebel Wandall tribute at the Copenhagen Opera Festival

    7. August 2025

    The Copenhagen Opera Festival hosts a tribute to Tekla Griebel Wandall and her extraordinary work, as three brilliant soloists perform a potpourri from the opera King Hroar’s Skalds