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  1. Ib Nørholm to be premiered at the Carl Nielsen competition

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    Ib Nørholm to be premiered at the Carl Nielsen competition

    30. March 2012

    It is only appropriate that one of Denmark’s grand old men is in the company of classic composers such as Rued Langgaard, Per Nørgård and Carl Nielsen. And that is exactly what he will be, when the annual Carl Nielsen competition kicks off.
  2. Two composers to be artistic managers of new music ensemble

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    Two composers to be artistic managers of new music ensemble

    29. March 2012

    The leading Danish ensemble for new music Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen has just announced a new Artistic Management to be engaged from May 1. Three profiles has been chosen to define the ensemble: The present Chief Conductor Pierre-André Valade and the two young composers Rune Glerup and Christian Winther Christensen.
  3. Positive reviews of Rued Langgaard CD

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    Positive reviews of Rued Langgaard CD

    27. March 2012

    In today's issue of the Danish newspaper Politiken music critic Henrik Friis gives five out of six hearts to the recently released album String Quartets Vol. 1 with Rued Langgaard works interpreted by the young Nightingale String Quartet. Friis titles his review "Langgaard's devil-may-care authority", and he says about the album:
  4. TRIBUTES - Pulse screening at BAFICI in Buenos Aires

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    TRIBUTES - Pulse screening at BAFICI in Buenos Aires

    22. March 2012

    Simon Christensen and Bill Morrison’s art film TRIBUTES - Pulse is on the programme of this year's edition of BAFICI, the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.
  5. Zoë Martlew artist residency

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    Zoë Martlew artist residency

    16. March 2012

    British cello virtuoso and voice performer Zoë Martlew joins Edition·S and SNYK this Spring as a recipient of the 2012 Danish International Visiting Artist Award (aka the DIVA award).
  6. Rued Langgaard's complete string quartets on CD

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    Rued Langgaard's complete string quartets on CD

    13. March 2012

    The string quartets of Danish music's eccentric outsider Rued Langgaard are passionate works of the composer's youth, representing both his nostalgically romantic side and his profoundly visionary modernity. For the first time on CD, a new recording series presents all 8 quartets in the award-winning young Nightingale String Quartet's distinctly dramatic interpretation based on the revised Rued Langgaard Edition.
  7. New blog post from Rune Glerup

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    New blog post from Rune Glerup

    8. March 2012

    Rune Glerup continues his reflections on musical beauty in his third blog post from his work in Paris. You can read the whole blog here on the website.
  8. Kasper Rofelt premiere at PULSAR 2012

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    Kasper Rofelt premiere at PULSAR 2012

    8. March 2012

    Kasper Rofelt's work Apsaras' Music for percussion solo is premiered on Monday March 19 by Mads Hebsgaard Andersen as part of the PULSAR festival for contemporary music in Copenhagen. 
  9. Im Rauschen premiered by ensemble recherche in Freiburg

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    Im Rauschen premiered by ensemble recherche in Freiburg

    7. March 2012

    Simon Steen-Andersen's new piece Im Rauschen for flute, oboe, clarinet and miniature speakers is premiered by ensemble recherche at the Morat Institute in Freiburg, Germany, on Wednesday March 14 as a part of the concert series entitled Die Zukunft beginnt um 19.15 Uhr! (The future begins at 7.15 pm!). The piece is commissioned by the ensemble, and on the concert programme is also German composer Wolfgang Riehm's Fremde Szenen I-III from 1984.
  10. Two festivals to present works by Simon Steen-Andersen

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    Two festivals to present works by Simon Steen-Andersen

    2. March 2012

    Simon Steen-Andersen is getting a lot of international attention these days. On March 9 a number of his works will be featured at two festivals: Oslo Screen Festival and Biennale Musiques en Scène (Music on Stage Biennial) in Lyon.
  11. Kasper Rofelt accordion album release

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    Kasper Rofelt accordion album release

    29. February 2012

    The Song I'll Never Sing is the title of a new album with accordion compositions by Kasper Rofelt. The album is the fruit of a unique collaboration between Rofelt and the young accordionist Bjarke Mogensen, to whom all works on this premiere recording were dedicated.
  12. History of my Instrument performed in Oslo

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    History of my Instrument performed in Oslo

    28. February 2012

    The Norwegian Academy of Music's annual Vinterlydfestival (Winter Sound Festival) is taking place on March 1-3 under the headline ”99 years of contemporary music”. This timeline starts with Debussy's Preludes for piano from 1913, runs through the rigorous masterpieces of Messiaens and Boulez, brutal cascades of sound from Ligeti and Xenakis, timbre explorations by Sciarrino and Lachenmann, and ends with Simon Steen-Andersen's multimedia work, improvisation, and avant garde DJ'ing.
  13. Greek performance of Steingrimur Rohloff piece

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    Greek performance of Steingrimur Rohloff piece

    28. February 2012

    Steingrimur Rohloff's piece May is written for and will be performed this week by Trio IAMA in Athens, Greece. Trio IAMA is one of very few Greek ensembles that have specialized in contemporary music. Now, the three sibling musicians – Jannis Anissegos on flute, Maria Anissegou on cello and Antonis Anissegos on piano – have moved one step further and invited young composers to write works for the trio.
  14. Wayne Siegel work to be premiered in Aarhus

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    Wayne Siegel work to be premiered in Aarhus

    27. February 2012

    Wayne Siegel's Concerto for Organ and Orchestra is to be premiered on March 1 by soloist Ulrik Spang-Hanssen and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. The American born composer has been commissioned to compose this work for the new organ in the Symphonic Hall in Musikhuset Aarhus, and on the website of the symphony orchestra he reveals a little about the result:
  15. On and Off and To and Fro performed by asamisimasa in LA

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    On and Off and To and Fro performed by asamisimasa in LA

    27. February 2012

    The radical Norwegian ensemble asamisimasa makes its US debut tonight with a typically edgy programme of music crossing boundaries. Simon Steen-Andersen's piece On and Off and To and Fro is on the programme, and will also have its US premiere on this occasion.
  16. Simon Steen-Andersen at the Other Minds Festival

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    Simon Steen-Andersen at the Other Minds Festival

    24. February 2012

    Now in its 17th year, the annual Other Minds Festival of New Music invites nine of the most innovative artists from around the world to the San Francisco Bay Area for a four-day 
  17. Rune Glerup piano solo work to be premiered

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    Rune Glerup piano solo work to be premiered

    23. February 2012

    Rune Glerup's Sonata in Seven Movements for piano solo was published in 2011 and is now to be premiered by Neel Bramsnæs Teilmann on February 29 at 7.30 pm at her debut recital from the soloist class of The Royal Danish Academy of Music. The concert will take place in the Academy's concert hall, and it will be open to everyone interested. Glerup's work will be accompanied by works by Bartók, Debussy and Beethoven.
  18. 81 years old and still going strong!

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    81 years old and still going strong!

    20. February 2012

    Ib Nørholm, who has just turned 81 years old, is still a very active and popular composer.This weekend his works are being celebrated by, not only a CD release and concert, but also as part of a greater celebration of the Danish Romance 2012.