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FIGURA performs in Oslo
7. November 2011
FIGURA Ensemble are on their way to Norway participating in the concert series POTETlyd at Ny Musikk in Oslo. In the morning on November 14 FIGURA gives an open rehearsal with Nicolai Worsaae’s new piece Wesenheit ab Wesenheit for clarinet, double bass, percussion and mezzo soprano, a piece which will have it’s first performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in England later this month.
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Behind Bars with Worsaae and Steen-Andersen
7. November 2011
November 14 the Malmö based Ensemble Ars Nova holds the Swedish first performance of Nicolai Worsaae’s Emphatische Ellipse for chamber ensemble and electronics at a concert also featuring Simon Steen-Andersen’s Chambered Music. The latter furthermore in a certain abstract way approaches the theme for the evening’s concert ‘Behind Bars’, which is ‘politically induced house arrest’.
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Simon Steen-Andersen goes to Moscow
4. November 2011
Tomorrow evening two of Simon Steen-Andersen's most popular works, the video installation Run Time Error and Chambered Music, are performed in Moscow, Russia.
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Morten Olsen in prominent Swiss festival
2. November 2011
Two chamber works by Morten Olsen will be travelling to Switzerland next week to be performed as part of the Tage für Neue Musik in Zürich, one of central Europe's most prominent festivals for contemporary music.Here too, in the heart of Switzerland, Danish composers have a rising star. Last year the ambiguous music of Christian Winther Christensen, which was played at the festival, left a lasting impression.
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Pierrot Lunaire International Composition Competition 2012
1. November 2011
Composers from all over the world without age limitation - are invited to present works for the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien.
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World premiere of Jesper Koch’s Cello Concerto
28. October 2011
A brand new cello concerto composed by Jesper Koch is world premiered on Thursday November 3 in the Concert Hall at Alsion, the Southern Jutish culture centre in Sønderborg.The new cello concerto is dedicated to solo cellist Michaela Fukacová, Southern Jutland Symphony Orchestra and its Chief conductor David Porcelijn who will be premiering the work in company with Schubert’s famous Ninth Symphony, the Great, and Ravel’s Pavane.
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Li-Ying Wu made composer-in-residence at Århus Sinfonietta
28. October 2011
The Danish Arts Agency has just announced that they have made an agreement with Århus Sinfonietta making composer Li-Ying Wu their composer-in-residence in the period January 2012 to December 2013.Li-Ying Wu will collaborate with Århus Sinfonietta on three new works: a doubble concert for Sheng (traditional Chinese wind instrument) and accordion, a song cycle for mezzo soprano and sinfonietta, and a chamber music work with electronics.
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Two composers receive huge prize of honour
25. October 2011
The two composers Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen and Finn Savery are together with The Danish String Quartet awarded the biggest Danish music prize, the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Award. The three award winners receive 600.000 Dkr. each.This huge prize of honour will be celebrated with a concert on November 1 in The Queens Hall in the Royal Library’s “Black Diamond”.
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Steingrimur Rohloff at Wien Modern
19. October 2011
From October 28 to November 25 the festival Wien Modern will make Vienna a centre for contemporary music. On the third festival day October 30 Edition·S composer Steingrimur Rohloff’s new piece Druck for bassoon, saxophone and live electronics is on the programme in a concert at Alte Schmiede, which is one of Vienna’s most versatile venues for contemporary art events. Rohloff has written his piece Druck in 2010 and it will be performed by Johannes Schwarz (bsn) and Sascha Armbruster (sax).
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SPOR festival calls for proposals 2012
17. October 2011
SPOR festival is inviting composers and sound artists to submit a proposal for a new work to be realized at SPOR 2012 in Aarhus, Denmark. Composer Simon Steen-Andersen is a member of the jury.FEE FOR REALIZING THE PROPOSAL: € 1,000DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING: 18th November 2011
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London Sinfonietta unveils brutal Marula by Jexper Holmen
14. October 2011
“Extremely heavily” with a “brutally sustained character” - “as if the carved blocks were relentlessly paced forward by a stream of lava”. Yes, indeed, Jexper Holmen now unveils the fruit of his first year in collaboration with London Sinfonietta. It’s named Marula, is composed for clarinet, string trio and analogue ring modulator, and this baby will be world premiered next Thursday on October 20 at Kings Place in London. Be there and beware for Marula.
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TRIBUTES – Pulse at Festival Du Nouveau Cinema
11. October 2011
Monday October 17 and Friday October 21 Danish composer Simon Christensen and American filmmaker Bill Morrison’s collaborative film project TRIBUTES – Pulse will be screened at the Canadian film festival Festival Du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal.
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Divine semen and female sexuality
10. October 2011
Virgin Mary as surrogate mother inseminated by the archangel Gabriel. This is the set-up in Line Tjørnhøj’s new work Materia, which plays a central role in soprano Stine Elbæk Rysgaard’s début concerts on October 12 and 16. The 20 minutes long mini drama Materia for three sopranos and live electronics is based on texts dating more than a millenium back in history but also thoughts from the everyday life of a modern surrogate mother.
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Artist Anne La Berge joins Edition·S this October
6. October 2011
During the month of October, the Dutch-American flutist/improviser/composer Anne La Berge joins Edition·S as artist-in-residence.
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Rank Ensemble performs Simon Steen-Andersen in Helsinki
4. October 2011
On October 4 Rank Ensemble will perform works by Simon Steen-Andersen at the Helsinki Music Centre, Musiikkitalo.The Finnish ensemble, Rank Ensemble, has taken as its mandate to explore the grey area of contemporary music, which lies between improvisation and composition, seeking out contexts, which range from free improvisation, to contemporary works, which involve elements of improvisation, or which grant otherwise expanded roles to the performers. Simon Steen-Andersen’s music fits perfectly into that.
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Turning point in Iceland
30. September 2011
Iceland is hosting the Nordic Music Days 2011 in its capital city Reykjavik on October 6-9. As always the annual festival has challenged the Nordic composers with a specific subject, and this time it is A Turning Point.Opening on the three years ‘anniversary’ day for the Icelandic financial collapse, the Nordic Music Days nevertheless wants to celebrate this day as a new beginning for a rise in culture and art by gathering the most outstanding contemporary art music from the five Nordic countries and playing it in the newly built concert house Harpa in Reykjavik.
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Edition·S at Music China in October
30. September 2011
In October 2011 Edition·S participates in Music China, Asia-Pacific’s largest and most prestigious international music event. At the Chinese exhibition we will be showcasing 62 compositions by 27 composers from our catalogue.
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Hymnia Chamber Choir premieres Jesper Koch's work
30. September 2011
During the month of October, Hymnia Chamber Choir holds a range of concerts in churches around Zealand, Denmark where Jesper Koch is on the programme. The choir is premiering Jesper’s new work Danmarks Drømme, which is still in preparation.Catch them at the nearest church:2/10 at 4 pm Engholm Kirke, Allerød 5/10 at 8 pm Vestkirken, Ballerup 7/10 at 8 pm Vor Frelser Kirke, Copenhagen 9/10 at 3 pm Gl. Holte Kirke, Holte 30/10 at 4 pm Vejleå Kirke, Ishøj
