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  1. ManiFeste opens with TRIO

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    ManiFeste opens with TRIO

    28. May 2024

    The ManiFeste festival in Paris opens on 31 May with the French premiere of Simon Steen-Andersen's TRIO for big band, choir and orchestra.
  2. A choir of 70 flutes and a prize-winning soloist

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    A choir of 70 flutes and a prize-winning soloist

    28. May 2024

    On Thursday 30 May, Emmanuel Pahud will receive Denmark's largest and most prestigious music award, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2024. On that occasion he premieres a new piece by Bára Gísladóttir.
  3. Allan Gravgaard Madsen - 40 years today

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    Allan Gravgaard Madsen - 40 years today

    27. May 2024

    Allan Gravgaard Madsen is praised as "a fully developed poet with a fascinating sense of making captivating and beautiful orchestral colours." As an organizer, he plays a pivotal role in the Danish music scene, and furthermore he is quite a TV star.
  4. Behind the scenes with Bára Gísladóttir and Riot Ensemble

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    Behind the scenes with Bára Gísladóttir and Riot Ensemble

    24. May 2024

    Riot Ensemble made a small portrait of their work with Bára Gísladóttir, centered around rehearsals for the premiere performance of her piece 'the moon is an eye is a pond and so on and so forth'
  5. New Herman D. Koppel recording series

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    New Herman D. Koppel recording series

    24. May 2024

    Dacapo Records and the pianist Christian Westergaard are launching a new extensive series with piano works and songs by the composer and pianist Herman D. Koppel, filled with vitality and clarity.
  6. Western – new cello concerto by Niels Rønsholdt

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    Western – new cello concerto by Niels Rønsholdt

    23. May 2024

    Niels Rønsholdt’s Western, Cello Concerto no. 2, is premiered by Varsovia Sinfonia and cellist Jakob Kullberg on 4 June.
  7. SPOR Festival

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    SPOR Festival

    14. May 2024

    SPOR Festival 2024 takes place on 22-26 May in Aarhus, Denmark and includes works by Simon Løffler, Mette Nielsen, Jacob Kirkegaard, Mads Emil Dreyer and Bára Gísladóttir.
  8. Bára Gísladóttir Album Release with Iceland Symphony Orchestra

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    Bára Gísladóttir Album Release with Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    3. May 2024

    On 17 May a new album with three orchestral works by Bára Gísladóttir is to be released, the same week as the Icelandic composer will receive the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composer Prize.
  9. Don Giovanni's Inferno nominated for Reumert Award

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    Don Giovanni's Inferno nominated for Reumert Award

    1. May 2024

    Simon Steen-Andersen's opera is nominated for the most prestigious Danish award celebrating excellence in Danish theatre.
  10. KUNSTPAUSER - Den Sidste Olie

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    KUNSTPAUSER - Den Sidste Olie

    1. May 2024

    The upcoming KUNSTPAUSER 23 May revolves around Niels Rønsholdt's chamber opera, Den Sidste Olie. The evening brings a conversation about opera and predation on territories and fellow human beings and about the role of art in our time
  11. Simon Steen-Andersen receives Carl Prisen 2024

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    Simon Steen-Andersen receives Carl Prisen 2024

    30. April 2024

    Simon Steen-Andersen receives Carl Prisen 2024 in the category 'Classical Composer of the Year - Large Ensemble' for his opera Don Giovanni's Inferno.
  12. SPOT FLUX coming up

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    SPOT FLUX coming up

    29. April 2024

    The first ever SPOT FLUX takes place 3-4 May, featuring works by Matias Vestergård, Bára Gísladóttir, Mette Nielsen, Li-Ying Wu, Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen and more.
  13. Morten Ladehoff World Premiere

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    Morten Ladehoff World Premiere

    29. April 2024

    On Saturday 4 May Athelas Sinfonietta will premiere Ladehoff's 5TÜCKW3RK at a concert also featuring pieces by Christian Winther Christensen, Mette Nielsen and Matias Vestergård.
  14. Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard: Album reviews and upcoming performance

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    Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard: Album reviews and upcoming performance

    26. April 2024

    The album release of Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard's Colliding Bubbles has received great reviews, and now the Italian premiere of the piece is coming up.
  15. Ejnar Kanding: Nordic Extraction Album Release

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    Ejnar Kanding: Nordic Extraction Album Release

    26. April 2024

    The third album in Ejnar Kanding's Nordic Series is now released: Nordic Extraction - a sonic odyssey blending melancholic ambiance and mesmerizing motifs.
  16. Bára Gísladóttir World Premiere

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    Bára Gísladóttir World Premiere

    24. April 2024

    In a new work premiered by ensemble intercontemporain on 26 April, Bára Gísladóttir brings together two of her passions: Metal music and the strange and fascinating world of microorganisms.
  17. Works by Loïc Destremau published by Edition·S

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    Works by Loïc Destremau published by Edition·S

    23. April 2024

    We are excited to share the news that works by Loïc Destremau are now published by Edition·S.
  18. Loïc Destremau - Debut Concert

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    Loïc Destremau - Debut Concert

    22. April 2024

    On 24 April, Loïc Destremau will make his debut as a composer from the soloist class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with a concert that explores a subject that the composer himself describes as inexhaustible: Time. We spoke with him about his music.